--- title: "A7s vs 44: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-44.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-44" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "A7s vs 44 is close to a coin flip before the flop: 47.98% to 52.03% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-j9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-jto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9o-vs-44.md"] --- # A7s vs 44: preflop equity A7s vs 44 is close to a coin flip before the flop: 47.98% to 52.03% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts 44 at 52.02% and A7s at 47.98% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## A7s against 44: the numbers **Exact preflop results for A7s against 44, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A7s | 47.715 | 0.521 | 51.764 | 47.975 | | 44 | 51.764 | 0.521 | 47.715 | 52.025 | The first hand is a suited hand; the second is a pocket pair. This is a pair against two overcards, a matchup that stays close because the other hand only needs one of its ranks to appear. 44 leads by less than 5 points of equity, so the result of any one deal is close to a toss-up. Of every 100 boards, about 0.52 are split pots, and the equity figures already include them. A7s ranks number 24 of 169 starting hands, and 44 ranks number 48, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A7s | 19,609,000 | 214,000 | 21,273,000 | | 44 | 21,273,000 | 214,000 | 19,609,000 | 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. **A7s against 44 read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A7s | 0.922 | 2.096 | 1.932 | 1.084 | | 44 | 1.084 | 1.932 | 2.096 | 0.922 | 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. 44 does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 59.16%, and worst on two-tone flops, at 50.84%. 44 stays ahead on all five textures. **A7s against 44 by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | A7s wins | Ties | 44 wins | A7s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 48.064 | 0.267 | 51.669 | 48.198 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 40.452 | 0.779 | 58.769 | 40.842 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 48.997 | 0.334 | 50.669 | 49.164 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 47.092 | 2.826 | 50.082 | 48.505 | | Paired | 17.334 | 46.334 | 0.617 | 53.049 | 46.643 | 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 A7s from 60.98% by -13.00 points and 44 from 57.02% by -5.00 points. **A7s and 44 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A7s, all flops | 47.975 | 60.984 | -13.009 | 0.78668 | | A7s, rainbow, ten or higher | 48.198 | 60.984 | -12.786 | 0.79034 | | A7s, rainbow, nine or lower | 40.842 | 60.984 | -20.142 | 0.66972 | | A7s, two-tone | 49.164 | 60.984 | -11.820 | 0.80618 | | A7s, monotone | 48.505 | 60.984 | -12.479 | 0.79537 | | A7s, paired | 46.643 | 60.984 | -14.341 | 0.76484 | | 44, all flops | 52.025 | 57.023 | -4.998 | 0.91235 | | 44, rainbow, ten or higher | 51.802 | 57.023 | -5.221 | 0.90844 | | 44, rainbow, nine or lower | 59.158 | 57.023 | +2.135 | 1.03744 | | 44, two-tone | 50.836 | 57.023 | -6.187 | 0.89150 | | 44, monotone | 51.495 | 57.023 | -5.528 | 0.90306 | | 44, paired | 53.357 | 57.023 | -3.666 | 0.93571 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, 44 holds 52.20%; when they do not, it holds 51.85%. 44 does better with a shared suit, by 0.35 points. **A7s against 44 by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A7s wins | Ties | 44 wins | A7s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 47.519 | 0.556 | 51.925 | 47.797 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 47.910 | 0.486 | 51.604 | 48.153 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 24 are A7s in one seat and 44 in the other (0.0015%); with the seats swapped too, 48 (0.0030%). ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $104.04 for 44 and $95.96 for A7s; the first side gains $4.04 per all-in and the second gives up $4.04. Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 518 for 44, 477 for A7s and 5 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, 44 against A7s, is 52.02% to 47.98%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring Try As7s against 4h4d 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 As7s against 4h4d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=As7s&p2=4h4d) - [A7s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a7s.md) - [44 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/44.md) - [A7s vs J9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-j9s.md) - [A7s vs JTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-jto.md) - [A9o vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9o-vs-44.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 24 specific A7s against 44 deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [A7s vs J9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-j9s.md) - [A7s vs JTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-jto.md) - [A9o vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9o-vs-44.md)