--- title: "AA vs 97s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-97s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-97s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AA is a big favorite over 97s before the flop: 79.18% to 20.82% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-86s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-97s.md"] --- # AA vs 97s: preflop equity AA is a big favorite over 97s before the flop: 79.18% to 20.82% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, AA finishes with 79.18% of the pot and 97s with 20.82%. ## AA against 97s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AA against 97s, in percent** | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | 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. **AA against 97s read as odds** | 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. **AA against 97s by flop texture, in percent** | 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. **AA and 97s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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. **AA against 97s by suit overlap, in percent** | 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 AsAh against 9d7d 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 AsAh against 9d7d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsAh&p2=9d7d) - [AA combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aa.md) - [97s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/97s.md) - [AA vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-87s.md) - [AA vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-86s.md) - [KK vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-97s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## 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. ## Related - [AA vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-87s.md) - [AA vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-86s.md) - [KK vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-97s.md)