--- title: "A7s vs QTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-qts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-qts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, A7s or QTs? A7s leads 55.45% to 44.55% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-a4s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-a3s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9o-vs-qts.md"] --- # A7s vs QTs: preflop equity Who is ahead, A7s or QTs? A7s leads 55.45% to 44.55% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, A7s takes 55.45% of the pot on average and QTs takes the other 44.55%. ## A7s against QTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for A7s against QTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A7s | 55.210 | 0.475 | 44.315 | 55.447 | | QTs | 44.315 | 0.475 | 55.210 | 44.553 | A7s and QTs are both suited hands. 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. A split pot comes up on 0.48% 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 QTs is number 34. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A7s | 15,126,000 | 130,000 | 12,141,000 | | QTs | 12,141,000 | 130,000 | 15,126,000 | 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 QTs 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 | 1.245 | 1.811 | 2.257 | 0.804 | | QTs | 0.804 | 2.257 | 1.811 | 1.245 | 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 A7s prefers low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where it holds 72.24%, and likes rainbow flops topped by a ten or better least, where it holds 49.22%. Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better favor QTs, the hand that is behind overall. **A7s against QTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | A7s wins | Ties | QTs wins | A7s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 49.147 | 0.154 | 50.699 | 49.224 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 71.934 | 0.607 | 27.459 | 72.237 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 54.079 | 0.233 | 45.688 | 54.195 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 51.543 | 3.397 | 45.060 | 53.242 | | Paired | 17.091 | 61.008 | 0.628 | 38.364 | 61.322 | A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand A random hand would give A7s 60.98% and QTs 59.47%. Against each other the change is -5.53 points for A7s and -14.92 for QTs. **A7s and QTs 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 | 55.447 | 60.984 | -5.537 | 0.90921 | | A7s, rainbow, ten or higher | 49.224 | 60.984 | -11.760 | 0.80716 | | A7s, rainbow, nine or lower | 72.237 | 60.984 | +11.253 | 1.18452 | | A7s, two-tone | 54.195 | 60.984 | -6.789 | 0.88868 | | A7s, monotone | 53.242 | 60.984 | -7.742 | 0.87305 | | A7s, paired | 61.322 | 60.984 | +0.338 | 1.00554 | | QTs, all flops | 44.553 | 59.468 | -14.915 | 0.74919 | | QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 50.776 | 59.468 | -8.692 | 0.85384 | | QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 27.763 | 59.468 | -31.705 | 0.46686 | | QTs, two-tone | 45.805 | 59.468 | -13.663 | 0.77025 | | QTs, monotone | 46.758 | 59.468 | -12.710 | 0.78627 | | QTs, paired | 38.678 | 59.468 | -20.790 | 0.65040 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? A7s has 57.16% when the hands share a suit and 54.88% when they do not. A7s does better with a shared suit, by 2.28 points. **A7s against QTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A7s wins | Ties | QTs wins | A7s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 56.882 | 0.551 | 42.567 | 57.158 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 54.652 | 0.449 | 44.899 | 54.877 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, A7s against QTs appears in 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0010%), and in 32 when the seats are swapped too (0.0020%). ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: A7s averages $110.90 back, ahead of its $100 by $10.90, while QTs averages $89.10, short of its $100 by $10.90. Think in thousands: about 552 of 1,000 go to A7s, about 443 go to QTs, and about 5 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: QTs against A7s is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so QTs holds 44.55% and A7s holds 55.45%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Try As7s against QhTh 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 QhTh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=As7s&p2=QhTh) - [A7s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a7s.md) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [A7s vs A4s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-a4s.md) - [A7s vs A3s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-a3s.md) - [A9o vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9o-vs-qts.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 A4s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-a4s.md) - [A7s vs A3s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-a3s.md) - [A9o vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9o-vs-qts.md)