A7s vs JTo: preflop equity

Counting every board, the equity split is 57.38% for A7s and 42.62% for JTo, so A7s leads by 14.76 points.

A7s

57.38%

Wins 57.17%, ties 0.42%

JTo

42.62%

Wins 42.41%, ties 0.42%

Equity counts a tie as half a win. Exact over every board.

A7s against JTo: the numbers

Exact preflop results for A7s against JTo, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
A7s57.1690.42242.40957.380
JTo42.4090.42257.16942.620

The first hand is a suited hand; the second is an offsuit hand. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances.

The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. Split pots make up 0.42% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each.

The hand ranking puts A7s at 24 and JTo at 57 out of 169 starting hands.

Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
A7s46,988,000347,00034,856,000
JTo34,856,000347,00046,988,000

Exact total: 48 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 JTo read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
A7s1.3461.7492.3580.743
JTo0.7432.3581.7491.346

In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity.

Who is ahead on which flops

Across the five flop textures A7s' equity moves by 21.23 points, from 50.31% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better to 71.54% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). A7s stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.

A7s against JTo by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsA7s winsTiesJTo winsA7s equity
Rainbow, ten or higher23.98850.2310.16549.60450.313
Rainbow, nine or lower7.04271.2550.57428.17171.542
Two-tone46.66756.7890.23942.97256.909
Monotone5.21253.3842.34944.26754.558
Paired17.09163.2960.63236.07263.612

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

Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 60.98% for A7s, 55.25% for JTo. Here the change is -3.60 and -12.63 points.

A7s and JTo here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
A7s, all flops57.38060.984-3.6040.94090
A7s, rainbow, ten or higher50.31360.984-10.6710.82502
A7s, rainbow, nine or lower71.54260.984+10.5581.17313
A7s, two-tone56.90960.984-4.0750.93318
A7s, monotone54.55860.984-6.4260.89463
A7s, paired63.61260.984+2.6281.04309
JTo, all flops42.62055.248-12.6280.77143
JTo, rainbow, ten or higher49.68755.248-5.5610.89934
JTo, rainbow, nine or lower28.45855.248-26.7900.51510
JTo, two-tone43.09155.248-12.1570.77996
JTo, monotone45.44255.248-9.8060.82251
JTo, paired36.38855.248-18.8600.65863

Does a shared suit matter?

Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common A7s has 57.03% equity, and with none in common it has 57.74%. A7s does better with no shared suit, by 0.71 points.

A7s against JTo by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsA7s winsTiesJTo winsA7s equity
Share a suit2450.0056.7940.46342.74357.026
No shared suit2450.0057.5450.38042.07557.735

How often this matchup comes up

Exactly 48 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0030% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 96, or 0.0059%.

A worked example

Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average A7s takes back $114.76 of it, which is $14.76 more than it put in, and JTo takes back $85.24, $14.76 less than it put in.

Think in thousands: about 572 of 1,000 go to A7s, about 424 go to JTo, and about 4 are chopped.

The same matchup from the other side

JTo versus A7s is this same page seen from the other hand: 42.62% for JTo, 57.38% for A7s.

As7s against JhTd is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength.

How this was computed

We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 48 specific A7s against JTo 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.

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