--- title: "A7s vs QTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-qto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-qto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, A7s or QTo? A7s leads 58.14% to 41.86% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-44.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-j9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9o-vs-qto.md"] --- # A7s vs QTo: preflop equity Who is ahead, A7s or QTo? A7s leads 58.14% to 41.86% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, A7s finishes with 58.14% of the pot and QTo with 41.86%. ## A7s against QTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for A7s against QTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A7s | 57.928 | 0.429 | 41.643 | 58.143 | | QTo | 41.643 | 0.429 | 57.928 | 41.857 | One side is a suited hand, the other is an offsuit hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. A 16.28 point lead is real, and QTo still takes about 417 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are 0.43% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. Place 24 of 169 belongs to A7s and place 47 belongs to QTo in the ranking against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A7s | 47,611,000 | 353,000 | 34,227,000 | | QTo | 34,227,000 | 353,000 | 47,611,000 | The total is exact: 48 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **A7s against QTo 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 | 1.389 | 1.726 | 2.401 | 0.720 | | QTo | 0.720 | 2.401 | 1.726 | 1.389 | 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 Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the best for A7s (74.62%); rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the worst (50.49%). 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 QTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | A7s wins | Ties | QTo wins | A7s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 50.404 | 0.161 | 49.435 | 50.485 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 74.307 | 0.631 | 25.062 | 74.622 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 57.593 | 0.248 | 42.159 | 57.717 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 54.018 | 2.356 | 43.626 | 55.196 | | Paired | 17.091 | 63.846 | 0.628 | 35.526 | 64.160 | 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 Against one random hand instead, A7s holds 60.98% and QTo holds 57.29%. Facing each other changes that by -2.84 points for A7s and -15.43 points for QTo. **A7s and QTo 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 | 58.143 | 60.984 | -2.841 | 0.95341 | | A7s, rainbow, ten or higher | 50.485 | 60.984 | -10.499 | 0.82784 | | A7s, rainbow, nine or lower | 74.622 | 60.984 | +13.638 | 1.22363 | | A7s, two-tone | 57.717 | 60.984 | -3.267 | 0.94643 | | A7s, monotone | 55.196 | 60.984 | -5.788 | 0.90509 | | A7s, paired | 64.160 | 60.984 | +3.176 | 1.05208 | | QTo, all flops | 41.857 | 57.291 | -15.434 | 0.73060 | | QTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 49.515 | 57.291 | -7.776 | 0.86427 | | QTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 25.378 | 57.291 | -31.913 | 0.44297 | | QTo, two-tone | 42.283 | 57.291 | -15.008 | 0.73804 | | QTo, monotone | 44.804 | 57.291 | -12.487 | 0.78204 | | QTo, paired | 35.840 | 57.291 | -21.451 | 0.62558 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, A7s has 57.79%; looking only at deals where they do not, 58.50%. A7s does better with no shared suit, by 0.71 points. **A7s against QTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A7s wins | Ties | QTo wins | A7s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 57.553 | 0.470 | 41.977 | 57.788 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 58.304 | 0.387 | 41.309 | 58.497 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 48 specific-card matchups (0.0030% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 96 once you count the seats both ways (0.0059%). ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $116.28 for A7s and $83.72 for QTo; the first side gains $16.28 per all-in and the second gives up $16.28. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 579 wins for A7s, 417 for QTo and 4 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, QTo against A7s, shows 41.86% for QTo and 58.14% for A7s. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring As7s against QhTd 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. - [Open As7s against QhTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=As7s&p2=QhTd) - [A7s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a7s.md) - [QTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qto.md) - [A7s vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-44.md) - [A7s vs J9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-j9s.md) - [A9o vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9o-vs-qto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 48 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. ## Related - [A7s vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-44.md) - [A7s vs J9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-j9s.md) - [A9o vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9o-vs-qto.md)