--- title: "A7s vs A5s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-a5s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-a5s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "A7s is a big favorite over A5s before the flop: 60.19% to 39.81% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-a6s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-kto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9o-vs-a5s.md"] --- # A7s vs A5s: preflop equity A7s is a big favorite over A5s before the flop: 60.19% to 39.81% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If A7s and A5s get all the chips in before the flop, A7s owns 60.19% of the pot in the long run and A5s owns 39.81%. ## A7s against A5s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for A7s against A5s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A7s | 47.672 | 25.044 | 27.284 | 60.194 | | A5s | 27.284 | 25.044 | 47.672 | 39.806 | Both hands are suited hands: A7s and A5s. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up. A 20.38 point lead is real, and A5s still takes about 273 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are 25.04% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. By strength against a random hand, A7s holds place 24 of 169 and A5s holds place 30. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A7s | 9,795,000 | 5,146,000 | 5,606,000 | | A5s | 5,606,000 | 5,146,000 | 9,795,000 | Exact total: 12 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 A5s 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 | 1.512 | 2.098 | 3.665 | 0.661 | | A5s | 0.661 | 3.665 | 2.098 | 1.512 | 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 If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: A7s holds 62.29% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and 55.99% on paired flops. A7s stays ahead on all five textures. **A7s against A5s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | A7s wins | Ties | A5s wins | A7s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.526 | 48.769 | 27.040 | 24.191 | 62.289 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.383 | 57.409 | 9.498 | 33.093 | 62.158 | | Two-tone | 46.543 | 50.328 | 20.676 | 28.996 | 60.666 | | Monotone | 5.215 | 48.899 | 17.620 | 33.481 | 57.709 | | Paired | 17.333 | 35.036 | 41.903 | 23.061 | 55.988 | 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: 60.98% for A7s, 59.92% for A5s. Here the change is -0.79 and -20.11 points. **A7s and A5s 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 | 60.194 | 60.984 | -0.790 | 0.98705 | | A7s, rainbow, ten or higher | 62.289 | 60.984 | +1.305 | 1.02140 | | A7s, rainbow, nine or lower | 62.158 | 60.984 | +1.174 | 1.01925 | | A7s, two-tone | 60.666 | 60.984 | -0.318 | 0.99479 | | A7s, monotone | 57.709 | 60.984 | -3.275 | 0.94630 | | A7s, paired | 55.988 | 60.984 | -4.996 | 0.91808 | | A5s, all flops | 39.806 | 59.923 | -20.117 | 0.66429 | | A5s, rainbow, ten or higher | 37.711 | 59.923 | -22.212 | 0.62932 | | A5s, rainbow, nine or lower | 37.842 | 59.923 | -22.081 | 0.63151 | | A5s, two-tone | 39.334 | 59.923 | -20.589 | 0.65641 | | A5s, monotone | 42.291 | 59.923 | -17.632 | 0.70576 | | A5s, paired | 44.012 | 59.923 | -15.911 | 0.73448 | ## Does a shared suit matter? These two classes cannot share a suit in any legal deal, so there is only one row to read: A7s holds 60.19% in every deal of this matchup. **A7s against A5s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A7s wins | Ties | A5s wins | A7s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 47.672 | 25.044 | 27.284 | 60.194 | ## How often this matchup comes up A7s against A5s is made up of 12 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0007% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 24 counting both seat orders, 0.0015%. ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says A7s gets $120.38 of it on average and A5s gets $79.62. A thousand deals look like this: A7s takes 477, A5s takes 273, 250 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side A5s versus A7s is this same page seen from the other hand: 39.81% for A5s, 60.19% for A7s. ## Keep exploring Try As7s against Ah5h 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 Ah5h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=As7s&p2=Ah5h) - [A7s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a7s.md) - [A5s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a5s.md) - [A7s vs A6s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-a6s.md) - [A7s vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-kto.md) - [A9o vs A5s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9o-vs-a5s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 12 deals of A7s against A5s fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [A7s vs A6s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-a6s.md) - [A7s vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-kto.md) - [A9o vs A5s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9o-vs-a5s.md)