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title: "T8s vs 76s: preflop equity"
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summary: "T8s is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 63.29% to 36.71% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit."
related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-76s.md"]
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# T8s vs 76s: preflop equity

T8s is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 63.29% to 36.71% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit.

Before any board card is dealt, T8s holds 63.29% equity against 76s, which leaves 76s with 36.71%.

## T8s against 76s: the numbers

**Exact preflop results for T8s against 76s, in percent**

| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| T8s | 62.385 | 1.807 | 35.808 | 63.288 |
| 76s | 35.808 | 1.807 | 62.385 | 36.712 |

Both hands are suited hands: T8s and 76s. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits.

That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. Ties are part of the picture: 1.81% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win.

For context, T8s sits at number 73 of 169 starting hands and 76s at number 115 when each is run against a random hand.

**Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all**

| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| T8s | 17,092,000 | 495,000 | 9,810,000 |
| 76s | 9,810,000 | 495,000 | 17,092,000 |

The total is exact: 16 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand.

**T8s against 76s read as odds**

| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| T8s | 1.724 | 1.603 | 2.793 | 0.580 |
| 76s | 0.580 | 2.793 | 1.603 | 1.724 |

The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call.

## Who is ahead on which flops

The flop changes the picture. T8s does best on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 67.51%, and worst on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 48.22%. Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) favor 76s, the hand that is behind overall.

**T8s against 76s by flop texture, in percent**

| Flop | Share of flops | T8s wins | Ties | 76s wins | T8s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 66.894 | 1.224 | 31.882 | 67.506 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 48.113 | 0.217 | 51.670 | 48.222 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.397 | 0.944 | 36.659 | 62.869 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 58.530 | 3.873 | 37.597 | 60.467 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 61.637 | 4.917 | 33.446 | 64.095 |

Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank.

## Compared with a random hand

Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts T8s from 52.33% by +10.96 points and 76s from 45.37% by -8.66 points.

**T8s and 76s here compared with each against a random hand, in percent**

| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| T8s, all flops | 63.288 | 52.334 | +10.954 | 1.20931 |
| T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.506 | 52.334 | +15.172 | 1.28991 |
| T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 48.222 | 52.334 | -4.112 | 0.92143 |
| T8s, two-tone | 62.869 | 52.334 | +10.535 | 1.20130 |
| T8s, monotone | 60.467 | 52.334 | +8.133 | 1.15541 |
| T8s, paired | 64.095 | 52.334 | +11.761 | 1.22473 |
| 76s, all flops | 36.712 | 45.372 | -8.660 | 0.80913 |
| 76s, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.494 | 45.372 | -12.878 | 0.71617 |
| 76s, rainbow, nine or lower | 51.778 | 45.372 | +6.406 | 1.14119 |
| 76s, two-tone | 37.131 | 45.372 | -8.241 | 0.81837 |
| 76s, monotone | 39.533 | 45.372 | -5.839 | 0.87131 |
| 76s, paired | 35.905 | 45.372 | -9.467 | 0.79135 |

## Does a shared suit matter?

When the hands share a suit, T8s holds 65.72%; when they do not, it holds 62.48%. T8s does better with a shared suit, by 3.24 points.

**T8s against 76s by suit overlap, in percent**

| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | T8s wins | Ties | 76s wins | T8s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 64.744 | 1.955 | 33.301 | 65.722 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.599 | 1.757 | 36.644 | 62.477 |

## How often this matchup comes up

Counting specific cards, T8s against 76s appears in 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0010%), and in 32 when the seats are swapped too (0.0020%).

## A worked example

With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $126.58 for T8s and $73.42 for 76s; the first side gains $26.58 per all-in and the second gives up $26.58.

Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 624 outright wins for T8s, 358 for 76s, and 18 split pots.

## The same matchup from the other side

The mirror image, 76s against T8s, is 36.71% to 63.29%, and its address redirects to this page.

## Keep exploring

Open the calculator with Ts8s against 7h6h already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking.

- [Open Ts8s against 7h6h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=Ts8s&p2=7h6h)
- [T8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t8s.md)
- [76s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/76s.md)
- [T8s vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-75s.md)
- [T8s vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-65s.md)
- [T9o vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-76s.md)
- [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md)

## How this was computed

We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 16 specific T8s against 76s deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops.

Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.

## Related

- [T8s vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-75s.md)
- [T8s vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-65s.md)
- [T9o vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-76s.md)