--- title: "A7s vs JTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-jts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-jts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, A7s or JTs? A7s leads 54.75% to 45.26% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-a2s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-qto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9o-vs-jts.md"] --- # A7s vs JTs: preflop equity Who is ahead, A7s or JTs? A7s leads 54.75% to 45.26% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If A7s and JTs get all the chips in before the flop, A7s owns 54.75% of the pot in the long run and JTs owns 45.25%. ## A7s against JTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for A7s against JTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A7s | 54.510 | 0.469 | 45.021 | 54.745 | | JTs | 45.021 | 0.469 | 54.510 | 45.255 | A7s and JTs are both suited hands. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. A7s leads by less than 10 points of equity, so the result of any one deal is close to a toss-up. The tie share is 0.47%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Ranked by equity against a random hand, A7s is number 24 of the 169 starting hands and JTs is number 45. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A7s | 14,934,000 | 128,000 | 12,334,000 | | JTs | 12,334,000 | 128,000 | 14,934,000 | The board total is exact, 16 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **A7s against JTs 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 | 1.210 | 1.835 | 2.221 | 0.827 | | JTs | 0.827 | 2.221 | 1.835 | 1.210 | 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 20.23 points, from 49.05% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better to 69.28% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). The overall edge for A7s hides rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, where JTs comes out in front. **A7s against JTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | A7s wins | Ties | JTs wins | A7s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 48.975 | 0.157 | 50.868 | 49.053 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 69.003 | 0.550 | 30.447 | 69.278 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 53.363 | 0.225 | 46.412 | 53.475 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 50.989 | 3.394 | 45.617 | 52.686 | | Paired | 17.091 | 60.493 | 0.632 | 38.875 | 60.809 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of -6.23 points for A7s, from 60.98%, and -12.28 for JTs, from 57.53%. **A7s and JTs 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 | 54.745 | 60.984 | -6.239 | 0.89769 | | A7s, rainbow, ten or higher | 49.053 | 60.984 | -11.931 | 0.80436 | | A7s, rainbow, nine or lower | 69.278 | 60.984 | +8.294 | 1.13600 | | A7s, two-tone | 53.475 | 60.984 | -7.509 | 0.87687 | | A7s, monotone | 52.686 | 60.984 | -8.298 | 0.86393 | | A7s, paired | 60.809 | 60.984 | -0.175 | 0.99713 | | JTs, all flops | 45.255 | 57.528 | -12.273 | 0.78666 | | JTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 50.947 | 57.528 | -6.581 | 0.88560 | | JTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 30.722 | 57.528 | -26.806 | 0.53404 | | JTs, two-tone | 46.525 | 57.528 | -11.003 | 0.80874 | | JTs, monotone | 47.314 | 57.528 | -10.214 | 0.82245 | | JTs, paired | 39.191 | 57.528 | -18.337 | 0.68125 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? A7s has 56.39% when the hands share a suit and 54.20% when they do not. A7s does better with a shared suit, by 2.19 points. **A7s against JTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A7s wins | Ties | JTs wins | A7s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 56.117 | 0.544 | 43.339 | 56.389 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 53.975 | 0.443 | 45.582 | 54.197 | ## How often this matchup comes up A7s against JTs is made up of 16 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0010% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 32 counting both seat orders, 0.0020%. ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. A7s is worth $109.50 on average (+$9.50); JTs is worth $90.50 (-$9.50). Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 545 for A7s, 450 for JTs and 5 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side JTs versus A7s is this same page seen from the other hand: 45.25% for JTs, 54.75% for A7s. ## Keep exploring Try As7s against JhTh 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 JhTh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=As7s&p2=JhTh) - [A7s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a7s.md) - [JTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jts.md) - [A7s vs A2s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-a2s.md) - [A7s vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-qto.md) - [A9o vs JTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9o-vs-jts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## 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. ## Related - [A7s vs A2s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-a2s.md) - [A7s vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-qto.md) - [A9o vs JTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9o-vs-jts.md)