--- title: "TT vs 87s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-87s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-87s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "TT is a big favorite over 87s before the flop: 80.28% to 19.72% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-86s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-87s.md"] --- # TT vs 87s: preflop equity TT is a big favorite over 87s before the flop: 80.28% to 19.72% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If TT and 87s get all the chips in before the flop, TT owns 80.28% of the pot in the long run and 87s owns 19.72%. ## TT against 87s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for TT against 87s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 80.054 | 0.458 | 19.488 | 80.283 | | 87s | 19.488 | 0.458 | 80.054 | 19.717 | One side is a pocket pair, the other is a suited hand. A pair against two lower cards is a lopsided matchup: the pair is ahead and the other hand has no overcard to catch. This is one of the lopsided matchups: 87s wins only 19.49% of the boards outright. The tie share is 0.46%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. By strength against a random hand, TT holds place 5 of 169 and 87s holds place 100. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 32,898,000 | 188,000 | 8,009,000 | | 87s | 8,009,000 | 188,000 | 32,898,000 | Exact total: 24 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate. **TT against 87s 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 | 4.072 | 1.249 | 5.131 | 0.246 | | 87s | 0.246 | 5.131 | 1.249 | 4.072 | In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the best for TT (85.01%); low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the worst (70.20%). TT stays ahead on all five textures. **TT against 87s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | TT wins | Ties | 87s wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 84.871 | 0.270 | 14.859 | 85.006 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 70.013 | 0.373 | 29.614 | 70.200 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 78.274 | 0.274 | 21.452 | 78.411 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 73.362 | 2.387 | 24.251 | 74.555 | | Paired | 17.334 | 83.666 | 0.674 | 15.660 | 84.003 | A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 75.01% for TT, 47.94% for 87s. Here the change is +5.27 and -28.22 points. **TT and 87s 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 | 80.283 | 75.012 | +5.271 | 1.07027 | | TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 85.006 | 75.012 | +9.994 | 1.13323 | | TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 70.200 | 75.012 | -4.812 | 0.93585 | | TT, two-tone | 78.411 | 75.012 | +3.399 | 1.04531 | | TT, monotone | 74.555 | 75.012 | -0.457 | 0.99391 | | TT, paired | 84.003 | 75.012 | +8.991 | 1.11986 | | 87s, all flops | 19.717 | 47.936 | -28.219 | 0.41132 | | 87s, rainbow, ten or higher | 14.994 | 47.936 | -32.942 | 0.31279 | | 87s, rainbow, nine or lower | 29.800 | 47.936 | -18.136 | 0.62166 | | 87s, two-tone | 21.589 | 47.936 | -26.347 | 0.45037 | | 87s, monotone | 25.445 | 47.936 | -22.491 | 0.53081 | | 87s, paired | 15.997 | 47.936 | -31.939 | 0.33372 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, TT has 80.84%; looking only at deals where they do not, 79.73%. TT does better with a shared suit, by 1.11 points. **TT against 87s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | TT wins | Ties | 87s wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 80.590 | 0.501 | 18.909 | 80.840 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 79.518 | 0.416 | 20.066 | 79.726 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0030% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 48 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $160.56 for TT and $39.44 for 87s; the first side gains $60.56 per all-in and the second gives up $60.56. Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 800 for TT, 195 for 87s and 5 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From 87s' side the equity is 19.72%, and from TT's side it is 80.28%. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in TsTh against 8d7d, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength. - [Open TsTh against 8d7d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=TsTh&p2=8d7d) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [87s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/87s.md) - [TT vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-86s.md) - [TT vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-76s.md) - [99 vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-87s.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 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-86s.md) - [TT vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-76s.md) - [99 vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-87s.md)