A7s vs KJo: preflop equity

Averaged over every possible board, A7s is ahead of KJo by 19.52 points of equity, 59.76% to 40.24%.

A7s

59.76%

Wins 59.54%, ties 0.44%

KJo

40.24%

Wins 40.02%, ties 0.44%

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

A7s against KJo: the numbers

Exact preflop results for A7s against KJo, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
A7s59.5440.43940.01759.764
KJo40.0170.43959.54440.236

Here a suited hand (A7s) meets an offsuit hand (KJo). The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances.

That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. A split pot comes up on 0.44% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that.

In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, A7s is number 24 and KJo is number 26.

Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
A7s48,940,000361,00032,890,000
KJo32,890,000361,00048,940,000

The board total is exact, 48 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 KJo read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
A7s1.4851.6792.4990.673
KJo0.6732.4991.6791.485

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

By flop texture, A7s' equity runs from 52.12% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better up to 77.31% 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 KJo by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsA7s winsTiesKJo winsA7s equity
Rainbow, ten or higher23.98852.0590.12647.81552.122
Rainbow, nine or lower7.04276.8990.81122.29077.305
Two-tone46.66759.3040.26240.43459.435
Monotone5.21255.2342.36742.39956.418
Paired17.09164.8700.62034.51065.180

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

How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 60.98%, A7s changes by -1.22 points, and KJo, from 60.57%, by -20.33.

A7s and KJo here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
A7s, all flops59.76460.984-1.2200.97999
A7s, rainbow, ten or higher52.12260.984-8.8620.85468
A7s, rainbow, nine or lower77.30560.984+16.3211.26763
A7s, two-tone59.43560.984-1.5490.97460
A7s, monotone56.41860.984-4.5660.92513
A7s, paired65.18060.984+4.1961.06880
KJo, all flops40.23660.569-20.3330.66430
KJo, rainbow, ten or higher47.87860.569-12.6910.79047
KJo, rainbow, nine or lower22.69560.569-37.8740.37470
KJo, two-tone40.56560.569-20.0040.66973
KJo, monotone43.58260.569-16.9870.71954
KJo, paired34.82060.569-25.7490.57488

Does a shared suit matter?

Split by suits, the deals give A7s 59.42% when the hands overlap in a suit and 60.10% when they do not. A7s does better with no shared suit, by 0.68 points.

A7s against KJo by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsA7s winsTiesKJo winsA7s equity
Share a suit2450.0059.1830.47940.33859.423
No shared suit2450.0059.9050.39839.69760.104

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

A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says A7s gets $119.52 of it on average and KJo gets $80.48.

Per 1,000 deals: A7s wins about 596, KJo wins about 400, and about 4 end in a split pot.

The same matchup from the other side

One page covers both views. From KJo's side the equity is 40.24%, and from A7s' side it is 59.76%.

Try As7s against KhJd 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

This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 48 ways to deal one A7s and one KJo without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops.

Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.

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