--- title: "TT vs 86s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-86s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-86s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "TT is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 80.42% to 19.58% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-86s.md"] --- # TT vs 86s: preflop equity TT is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 80.42% to 19.58% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, TT takes 80.42% of the pot on average and 86s takes the other 19.58%. ## TT against 86s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for TT against 86s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 80.192 | 0.452 | 19.356 | 80.418 | | 86s | 19.356 | 0.452 | 80.192 | 19.582 | TT and 86s are a pocket pair and a suited hand, in that order. Here a pair faces two cards that are both smaller, so the other hand needs to pair up and still be behind. TT is a big favorite here before anyone sees a flop. 0.45% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. By strength against a random hand, TT holds place 5 of 169 and 86s holds place 110. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 32,955,000 | 186,000 | 7,954,000 | | 86s | 7,954,000 | 186,000 | 32,955,000 | The total is exact: 24 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. **TT 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 4.107 | 1.247 | 5.166 | 0.244 | | 86s | 0.244 | 5.166 | 1.247 | 4.107 | 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. TT does best on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 85.67%, and worst on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 68.57%. TT stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **TT against 86s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | TT wins | Ties | 86s wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 85.553 | 0.225 | 14.222 | 85.666 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 68.319 | 0.501 | 31.180 | 68.569 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 78.456 | 0.267 | 21.277 | 78.589 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 73.558 | 2.384 | 24.058 | 74.750 | | Paired | 17.334 | 83.565 | 0.674 | 15.761 | 83.902 | Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Relative to a random opponent, TT changes by +5.41 points (baseline 75.01%) and 86s by -26.66 points (baseline 46.24%). **TT 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT, all flops | 80.418 | 75.012 | +5.406 | 1.07207 | | TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 85.666 | 75.012 | +10.654 | 1.14203 | | TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 68.569 | 75.012 | -6.443 | 0.91411 | | TT, two-tone | 78.589 | 75.012 | +3.577 | 1.04769 | | TT, monotone | 74.750 | 75.012 | -0.262 | 0.99651 | | TT, paired | 83.902 | 75.012 | +8.890 | 1.11851 | | 86s, all flops | 19.582 | 46.243 | -26.661 | 0.42346 | | 86s, rainbow, ten or higher | 14.334 | 46.243 | -31.909 | 0.30997 | | 86s, rainbow, nine or lower | 31.431 | 46.243 | -14.812 | 0.67969 | | 86s, two-tone | 21.411 | 46.243 | -24.832 | 0.46301 | | 86s, monotone | 25.250 | 46.243 | -20.993 | 0.54603 | | 86s, paired | 16.098 | 46.243 | -30.145 | 0.34812 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common TT has 80.99% equity, and with none in common it has 79.84%. TT does better with a shared suit, by 1.15 points. **TT against 86s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | TT wins | Ties | 86s wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 80.745 | 0.495 | 18.760 | 80.993 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 79.639 | 0.409 | 19.952 | 79.843 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 24 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0015%) are TT against 86s, and 48 (0.0030%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $160.84 for TT and $39.16 for 86s; the first side gains $60.84 per all-in and the second gives up $60.84. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 802 outright wins for TT, 194 for 86s, and 4 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side 86s against TT adds nothing new: it is 19.58% for 86s and 80.42% for TT, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring Try TsTh 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 TsTh against 8d6d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=TsTh&p2=8d6d) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [86s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/86s.md) - [TT vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-76s.md) - [TT vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-75s.md) - [99 vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-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 24 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 - [TT vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-76s.md) - [TT vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-75s.md) - [99 vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-86s.md)