AA
79.18%
Wins 79.01%, ties 0.35%
97s
20.82%
Wins 20.64%, ties 0.35%
AA against 97s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA | 79.008 | 0.345 | 20.647 | 79.180 |
| 97s | 20.647 | 0.345 | 79.008 | 20.820 |
The matchup pits a pocket pair against a suited hand. The pair outranks both of the other hand's cards, which is why the pair is a strong favorite.
AA is well ahead, and 97s needs a specific kind of board to catch up. Ties are part of the picture: 0.35% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win.
The hand ranking puts AA at 1 and 97s at 94 out of 169 starting hands.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA | 32,469,000 | 142,000 | 8,485,000 |
| 97s | 8,485,000 | 142,000 | 32,469,000 |
The board total is exact, 24 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA | 3.803 | 1.266 | 4.843 | 0.263 |
| 97s | 0.263 | 4.843 | 1.266 | 3.803 |
The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity.
Who is ahead on which flops
AA prefers rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, where it holds 83.19%, and likes low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) least, where it holds 71.23%. AA stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | AA wins | Ties | 97s wins | AA equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 83.083 | 0.211 | 16.706 | 83.189 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 70.924 | 0.611 | 28.465 | 71.230 |
| Two-tone | 46.545 | 77.135 | 0.278 | 22.587 | 77.274 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 72.657 | 2.389 | 24.954 | 73.851 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 83.108 | 0.007 | 16.885 | 83.111 |
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
Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 85.20% for AA, 49.12% for 97s. Here the change is -6.02 and -28.30 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA, all flops | 79.180 | 85.204 | -6.024 | 0.92930 |
| AA, rainbow, ten or higher | 83.189 | 85.204 | -2.015 | 0.97635 |
| AA, rainbow, nine or lower | 71.230 | 85.204 | -13.974 | 0.83599 |
| AA, two-tone | 77.274 | 85.204 | -7.930 | 0.90693 |
| AA, monotone | 73.851 | 85.204 | -11.353 | 0.86676 |
| AA, paired | 83.111 | 85.204 | -2.093 | 0.97544 |
| 97s, all flops | 20.820 | 49.118 | -28.298 | 0.42388 |
| 97s, rainbow, ten or higher | 16.811 | 49.118 | -32.307 | 0.34226 |
| 97s, rainbow, nine or lower | 28.770 | 49.118 | -20.348 | 0.58573 |
| 97s, two-tone | 22.726 | 49.118 | -26.392 | 0.46268 |
| 97s, monotone | 26.149 | 49.118 | -22.969 | 0.53237 |
| 97s, paired | 16.889 | 49.118 | -32.229 | 0.34385 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Split by suits, the deals give AA 79.76% when the hands overlap in a suit and 78.60% when they do not. AA does better with a shared suit, by 1.16 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AA wins | Ties | 97s wins | AA equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 79.570 | 0.388 | 20.042 | 79.764 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 78.445 | 0.303 | 21.252 | 78.597 |
How often this matchup comes up
You will meet this exact matchup 0.0030% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 48 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order.
A worked example
Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average AA takes back $158.36 of it, which is $58.36 more than it put in, and 97s takes back $41.64, $58.36 less than it put in.
Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 790 for AA, 207 for 97s and 3 tied.
The same matchup from the other side
The reversed view, 97s against AA, shows 20.82% for 97s and 79.18% for AA. It is the same count, so it redirects here.
Keep exploring
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How this was computed
This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 24 ways to deal one AA and one 97s 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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