--- title: "T9o vs 86s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-86s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-86s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "T9o is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 62.85% to 37.15% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/98s-vs-86s.md"] --- # T9o vs 86s: preflop equity T9o is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 62.85% to 37.15% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, T9o finishes with 62.85% of the pot and 86s with 37.15%. ## T9o against 86s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for T9o against 86s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | T9o | 61.975 | 1.749 | 36.276 | 62.850 | | 86s | 36.276 | 1.749 | 61.975 | 37.150 | One side is an offsuit hand, the other is a suited hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. T9o is ahead, but 86s is far from dead: it takes 363 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 1.75% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. Among the 169 starting hands, T9o is number 78 and 86s is number 110 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | T9o | 50,938,000 | 1,438,000 | 29,815,000 | | 86s | 29,815,000 | 1,438,000 | 50,938,000 | The total is exact: 48 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. **T9o against 86s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | T9o | 1.692 | 1.614 | 2.757 | 0.591 | | 86s | 0.591 | 2.757 | 1.614 | 1.692 | The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops By flop texture, T9o's equity runs from 48.64% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) up to 68.27% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. Watch for low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): on those flops 86s holds the better equity. **T9o against 86s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | T9o wins | Ties | 86s wins | T9o equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.341 | 67.692 | 1.148 | 31.160 | 68.266 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 48.465 | 0.351 | 51.184 | 48.641 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 61.280 | 0.942 | 37.778 | 61.751 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 59.437 | 2.896 | 37.667 | 60.885 | | Paired | 17.091 | 60.670 | 4.956 | 34.374 | 63.148 | Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Relative to a random opponent, T9o changes by +11.32 points (baseline 51.53%) and 86s by -9.09 points (baseline 46.24%). **T9o and 86s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | T9o, all flops | 62.850 | 51.532 | +11.318 | 1.21963 | | T9o, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.266 | 51.532 | +16.734 | 1.32473 | | T9o, rainbow, nine or lower | 48.641 | 51.532 | -2.891 | 0.94390 | | T9o, two-tone | 61.751 | 51.532 | +10.219 | 1.19830 | | T9o, monotone | 60.885 | 51.532 | +9.353 | 1.18150 | | T9o, paired | 63.148 | 51.532 | +11.616 | 1.22541 | | 86s, all flops | 37.150 | 46.243 | -9.093 | 0.80336 | | 86s, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.734 | 46.243 | -14.509 | 0.68624 | | 86s, rainbow, nine or lower | 51.359 | 46.243 | +5.116 | 1.11063 | | 86s, two-tone | 38.249 | 46.243 | -7.994 | 0.82713 | | 86s, monotone | 39.115 | 46.243 | -7.128 | 0.84586 | | 86s, paired | 36.852 | 46.243 | -9.391 | 0.79692 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, T9o holds 63.56%; when they do not, it holds 62.14%. T9o does better with a shared suit, by 1.42 points. **T9o against 86s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | T9o wins | Ties | 86s wins | T9o equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 62.659 | 1.793 | 35.548 | 63.555 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 61.292 | 1.704 | 37.004 | 62.144 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 48 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0030% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 96, or 0.0059%. ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. T9o is worth $125.70 on average (+$25.70); 86s is worth $74.30 (-$25.70). Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 620 for T9o, 363 for 86s and 17 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side 86s versus T9o is this same page seen from the other hand: 37.15% for 86s, 62.85% for T9o. ## Keep exploring Try Ts9h against 8d6d in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking. - [Open Ts9h against 8d6d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=Ts9h&p2=8d6d) - [T9o combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t9o.md) - [86s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/86s.md) - [T9o vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-76s.md) - [T9o vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-75s.md) - [98s vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/98s-vs-86s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 48 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [T9o vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-76s.md) - [T9o vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-75s.md) - [98s vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/98s-vs-86s.md)