97s
64.04%
Wins 62.61%, ties 2.86%
64s
35.96%
Wins 34.53%, ties 2.86%
97s against 64s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97s | 62.609 | 2.864 | 34.527 | 64.041 |
| 64s | 34.527 | 2.864 | 62.609 | 35.959 |
97s and 64s are both suited hands. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits.
97s is ahead, but 64s is far from dead: it takes 345 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 2.86% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that.
The hand ranking puts 97s at 94 and 64s at 138 out of 169 starting hands.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| 97s | 17,153,000 | 785,000 | 9,459,000 |
| 64s | 9,459,000 | 785,000 | 17,153,000 |
Exact total: 16 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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97s | 1.781 | 1.597 | 2.896 | 0.561 |
| 64s | 0.561 | 2.896 | 1.597 | 1.781 |
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
Split by what the flop looks like, 97s peaks at 66.30% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and bottoms out at 58.10% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). 97s stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | 97s wins | Ties | 64s wins | 97s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.844 | 65.212 | 2.183 | 32.605 | 66.304 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.065 | 57.884 | 0.435 | 41.681 | 58.102 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.933 | 1.697 | 35.370 | 63.782 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 59.044 | 4.404 | 36.552 | 61.246 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 60.287 | 7.331 | 32.382 | 63.952 |
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, 97s changes by +14.92 points (baseline 49.12%) and 64s by -5.37 points (baseline 41.33%).
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97s, all flops | 64.041 | 49.118 | +14.923 | 1.30382 |
| 97s, rainbow, ten or higher | 66.304 | 49.118 | +17.186 | 1.34989 |
| 97s, rainbow, nine or lower | 58.102 | 49.118 | +8.984 | 1.18291 |
| 97s, two-tone | 63.782 | 49.118 | +14.664 | 1.29855 |
| 97s, monotone | 61.246 | 49.118 | +12.128 | 1.24692 |
| 97s, paired | 63.952 | 49.118 | +14.834 | 1.30201 |
| 64s, all flops | 35.959 | 41.333 | -5.374 | 0.86998 |
| 64s, rainbow, ten or higher | 33.696 | 41.333 | -7.637 | 0.81523 |
| 64s, rainbow, nine or lower | 41.898 | 41.333 | +0.565 | 1.01367 |
| 64s, two-tone | 36.218 | 41.333 | -5.115 | 0.87625 |
| 64s, monotone | 38.754 | 41.333 | -2.579 | 0.93760 |
| 64s, paired | 36.048 | 41.333 | -5.285 | 0.87214 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Does suit overlap move the numbers? 97s has 66.55% when the hands share a suit and 63.20% when they do not. 97s does better with a shared suit, by 3.35 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 97s wins | Ties | 64s wins | 97s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.012 | 3.084 | 31.904 | 66.554 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.808 | 2.791 | 35.401 | 63.203 |
How often this matchup comes up
Counting specific cards, 97s against 64s 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
Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. 97s' equity of 64.04% is worth $128.08, a $28.08 edge, and 64s' 35.96% is worth $71.92, which is $28.08 under its stake.
Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 626 for 97s, 345 for 64s and 29 ties.
The same matchup from the other side
If you came looking for 64s against 97s, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 35.96% and 64.04%.
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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