--- title: "T9s vs 76s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-76s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-76s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "T9s is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 63.65% to 36.35% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-76s.md"] --- # T9s vs 76s: preflop equity T9s is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 63.65% to 36.35% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, T9s takes 63.65% of the pot on average and 76s takes the other 36.35%. ## T9s against 76s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for T9s against 76s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | T9s | 62.801 | 1.694 | 35.505 | 63.648 | | 76s | 35.505 | 1.694 | 62.801 | 36.352 | Both hands are suited hands: T9s and 76s. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. T9s is ahead, but 76s is far from dead: it takes 355 of every 1,000 deals outright. Of every 100 boards, about 1.69 are split pots, and the equity figures already include them. Ranked by equity against a random hand, T9s is number 64 of the 169 starting hands and 76s is number 115. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | T9s | 17,206,000 | 464,000 | 9,727,000 | | 76s | 9,727,000 | 464,000 | 17,206,000 | 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. **T9s 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | T9s | 1.751 | 1.592 | 2.817 | 0.571 | | 76s | 0.571 | 2.817 | 1.592 | 1.751 | 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 The flop changes the picture. T9s does best on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 68.06%, and worst on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 48.14%. On low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) the numbers flip and 76s is the one ahead. **T9s against 76s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | T9s wins | Ties | 76s wins | T9s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 67.509 | 1.101 | 31.390 | 68.060 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 48.004 | 0.265 | 51.731 | 48.136 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.858 | 0.865 | 36.277 | 63.290 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.950 | 3.823 | 37.227 | 60.862 | | Paired | 17.091 | 61.810 | 4.658 | 33.532 | 64.139 | 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 T9s from 54.03% by +9.62 points and 76s from 45.37% by -9.02 points. **T9s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | T9s, all flops | 63.648 | 54.028 | +9.620 | 1.17806 | | T9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.060 | 54.028 | +14.032 | 1.25972 | | T9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 48.136 | 54.028 | -5.892 | 0.89095 | | T9s, two-tone | 63.290 | 54.028 | +9.262 | 1.17143 | | T9s, monotone | 60.862 | 54.028 | +6.834 | 1.12649 | | T9s, paired | 64.139 | 54.028 | +10.111 | 1.18714 | | 76s, all flops | 36.352 | 45.372 | -9.020 | 0.80120 | | 76s, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.940 | 45.372 | -13.432 | 0.70396 | | 76s, rainbow, nine or lower | 51.864 | 45.372 | +6.492 | 1.14308 | | 76s, two-tone | 36.710 | 45.372 | -8.662 | 0.80909 | | 76s, monotone | 39.138 | 45.372 | -6.234 | 0.86260 | | 76s, paired | 35.861 | 45.372 | -9.511 | 0.79038 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, T9s holds 66.08%; when they do not, it holds 62.84%. T9s does better with a shared suit, by 3.24 points. **T9s against 76s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | T9s wins | Ties | 76s wins | T9s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.163 | 1.837 | 33.000 | 66.081 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.013 | 1.647 | 36.340 | 62.837 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 16 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0010% of 1,624,350, and 32 (0.0020%) in either order. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. T9s' equity of 63.65% is worth $127.30, a $27.30 edge, and 76s' 36.35% is worth $72.70, which is $27.30 under its stake. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 628 outright wins for T9s, 355 for 76s, and 17 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side 76s against T9s adds nothing new: it is 36.35% for 76s and 63.65% for T9s, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring Ts9s against 7h6h is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength. - [Open Ts9s against 7h6h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=Ts9s&p2=7h6h) - [T9s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t9s.md) - [76s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/76s.md) - [T9s vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-75s.md) - [T9s vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-65s.md) - [33 vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-76s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 16 specific deals of T9s against 76s, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [T9s vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-75s.md) - [T9s vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-65s.md) - [33 vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-76s.md)