97s
63.53%
Wins 62.08%, ties 2.90%
43s
36.47%
Wins 35.02%, ties 2.90%
97s against 43s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97s | 62.080 | 2.901 | 35.019 | 63.531 |
| 43s | 35.019 | 2.901 | 62.080 | 36.469 |
This is a contest between two suited hands, 97s and 43s. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances.
A 27.06 point lead is real, and 43s still takes about 350 of every 1,000 deals outright. The tie share is 2.90%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright.
By strength against a random hand, 97s holds place 94 of 169 and 43s holds place 150.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| 97s | 17,008,000 | 795,000 | 9,594,000 |
| 43s | 9,594,000 | 795,000 | 17,008,000 |
16 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97s | 1.742 | 1.611 | 2.856 | 0.574 |
| 43s | 0.574 | 2.856 | 1.611 | 1.742 |
The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity.
Who is ahead on which flops
Split by what the flop looks like, 97s peaks at 64.85% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and bottoms out at 60.97% on monotone flops. 97s stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | 97s wins | Ties | 43s wins | 97s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.844 | 63.747 | 2.207 | 34.046 | 64.850 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.065 | 61.741 | 0.599 | 37.660 | 62.040 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.416 | 1.739 | 35.845 | 63.286 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 58.673 | 4.585 | 36.742 | 60.965 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 59.793 | 7.291 | 32.916 | 63.439 |
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
Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 49.12% for 97s, 38.64% for 43s. Here the change is +14.41 and -2.17 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97s, all flops | 63.531 | 49.118 | +14.413 | 1.29344 |
| 97s, rainbow, ten or higher | 64.850 | 49.118 | +15.732 | 1.32029 |
| 97s, rainbow, nine or lower | 62.040 | 49.118 | +12.922 | 1.26308 |
| 97s, two-tone | 63.286 | 49.118 | +14.168 | 1.28845 |
| 97s, monotone | 60.965 | 49.118 | +11.847 | 1.24119 |
| 97s, paired | 63.439 | 49.118 | +14.321 | 1.29156 |
| 43s, all flops | 36.469 | 38.642 | -2.173 | 0.94377 |
| 43s, rainbow, ten or higher | 35.150 | 38.642 | -3.492 | 0.90963 |
| 43s, rainbow, nine or lower | 37.960 | 38.642 | -0.682 | 0.98235 |
| 43s, two-tone | 36.714 | 38.642 | -1.928 | 0.95011 |
| 43s, monotone | 39.035 | 38.642 | +0.393 | 1.01017 |
| 43s, paired | 36.561 | 38.642 | -2.081 | 0.94615 |
Does a shared suit matter?
When the hands share a suit, 97s holds 65.96%; when they do not, it holds 62.72%. 97s does better with a shared suit, by 3.24 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 97s wins | Ties | 43s wins | 97s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 64.400 | 3.119 | 32.481 | 65.960 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.307 | 2.828 | 35.865 | 62.721 |
How often this matchup comes up
Counting specific cards, 97s against 43s 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 $127.06 for 97s and $72.94 for 43s; the first side gains $27.06 per all-in and the second gives up $27.06.
Per 1,000 deals: 97s wins about 621, 43s wins about 350, and about 29 end in a split pot.
The same matchup from the other side
The mirror image, 43s against 97s, is 36.47% to 63.53%, and its address redirects to this page.
Keep exploring
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How this was computed
Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 16 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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