A7s
66.98%
Wins 65.98%, ties 2.00%
87s
33.02%
Wins 32.02%, ties 2.00%
A7s against 87s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A7s | 65.983 | 1.997 | 32.020 | 66.982 |
| 87s | 32.020 | 1.997 | 65.983 | 33.018 |
Here suited hands face each other, A7s on one side and 87s on the other. The two hands share a rank, and the one with the better other card dominates: it wins most kicker battles when that shared rank hits.
A lead of 33.96 points is large but not decisive: 87s still takes about 320 of every 1,000 deals. Ties are part of the picture: 2.00% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win.
Among the 169 starting hands, A7s is number 24 and 87s is number 100 by strength against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| A7s | 13,558,000 | 410,000 | 6,579,000 |
| 87s | 6,579,000 | 410,000 | 13,558,000 |
The board total is exact, 12 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A7s | 2.029 | 1.516 | 3.123 | 0.493 |
| 87s | 0.493 | 3.123 | 1.516 | 2.029 |
The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call.
Who is ahead on which flops
A7s prefers paired flops, where it holds 71.76%, and likes low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) least, where it holds 52.07%. A7s stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.
| Flop | Share of flops | A7s wins | Ties | 87s wins | A7s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.254 | 70.330 | 1.415 | 28.255 | 71.038 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.654 | 49.956 | 4.237 | 45.807 | 52.074 |
| Two-tone | 46.543 | 64.617 | 1.695 | 33.688 | 65.465 |
| Monotone | 5.215 | 59.101 | 4.153 | 36.746 | 61.178 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 70.618 | 2.275 | 27.107 | 71.755 |
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
The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +6.00 points for A7s, from 60.98%, and -14.92 for 87s, from 47.94%.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A7s, all flops | 66.982 | 60.984 | +5.998 | 1.09835 |
| A7s, rainbow, ten or higher | 71.038 | 60.984 | +10.054 | 1.16486 |
| A7s, rainbow, nine or lower | 52.074 | 60.984 | -8.910 | 0.85390 |
| A7s, two-tone | 65.465 | 60.984 | +4.481 | 1.07348 |
| A7s, monotone | 61.178 | 60.984 | +0.194 | 1.00318 |
| A7s, paired | 71.755 | 60.984 | +10.771 | 1.17662 |
| 87s, all flops | 33.018 | 47.936 | -14.918 | 0.68879 |
| 87s, rainbow, ten or higher | 28.962 | 47.936 | -18.974 | 0.60418 |
| 87s, rainbow, nine or lower | 47.926 | 47.936 | -0.010 | 0.99979 |
| 87s, two-tone | 34.535 | 47.936 | -13.401 | 0.72044 |
| 87s, monotone | 38.822 | 47.936 | -9.114 | 0.80987 |
| 87s, paired | 28.245 | 47.936 | -19.691 | 0.58922 |
Does a shared suit matter?
A shared suit is impossible for this matchup, so A7s' 66.98% is the answer for every suit pattern.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A7s wins | Ties | 87s wins | A7s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible |
| No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 65.983 | 1.997 | 32.020 | 66.982 |
How often this matchup comes up
The class pair covers 12 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0007% of 1,624,350, and 24 (0.0015%) in either order.
A worked example
Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. A7s' equity of 66.98% is worth $133.96, a $33.96 edge, and 87s' 33.02% is worth $66.04, which is $33.96 under its stake.
Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 660 for A7s, 320 for 87s and 20 tied.
The same matchup from the other side
Read it from the other side: 87s against A7s is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so 87s holds 33.02% and A7s holds 66.98%. That address sends you back to this page.
Keep exploring
Try As7s against 8h7h 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.
How this was computed
The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 12 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.
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