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title: "AJs vs 97s: preflop equity"
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last_updated: "2026-10-23"
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summary: "AJs is a big favorite over 97s before the flop: 62.76% to 37.24% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit."
related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-86s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-97s.md"]
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# AJs vs 97s: preflop equity

AJs is a big favorite over 97s before the flop: 62.76% to 37.24% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit.

The exact count puts AJs at 62.76% and 97s at 37.24% when the two hands see all five board cards.

## AJs against 97s: the numbers

**Exact preflop results for AJs against 97s, in percent**

| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AJs | 62.522 | 0.467 | 37.011 | 62.756 |
| 97s | 37.011 | 0.467 | 62.522 | 37.244 |

Each side holds one of the suited hands: AJs and 97s. 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. The tie share is 0.47%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright.

AJs ranks number 11 of 169 starting hands, and 97s ranks number 94, by equity against a random hand.

**Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all**

| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AJs | 17,129,000 | 128,000 | 10,140,000 |
| 97s | 10,140,000 | 128,000 | 17,129,000 |

Exact total: 16 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate.

**AJs 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) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AJs | 1.685 | 1.599 | 2.702 | 0.593 |
| 97s | 0.593 | 2.702 | 1.599 | 1.685 |

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

Break the boards down by their first three cards and AJs is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (68.92%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (39.90%). The lead reverses on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): there 97s is the favorite even though AJs is ahead overall.

**AJs against 97s by flop texture, in percent**

| Flop | Share of flops | AJs wins | Ties | 97s wins | AJs equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 68.838 | 0.166 | 30.996 | 68.921 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 39.624 | 0.546 | 59.830 | 39.897 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.952 | 0.223 | 37.825 | 62.064 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 58.206 | 3.394 | 38.400 | 59.903 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 64.780 | 0.637 | 34.583 | 65.099 |

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 65.39%, AJs changes by -2.63 points, and 97s, from 49.12%, by -11.88.

**AJs 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AJs, all flops | 62.756 | 65.393 | -2.637 | 0.95967 |
| AJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.921 | 65.393 | +3.528 | 1.05395 |
| AJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 39.897 | 65.393 | -25.496 | 0.61011 |
| AJs, two-tone | 62.064 | 65.393 | -3.329 | 0.94909 |
| AJs, monotone | 59.903 | 65.393 | -5.490 | 0.91605 |
| AJs, paired | 65.099 | 65.393 | -0.294 | 0.99550 |
| 97s, all flops | 37.244 | 49.118 | -11.874 | 0.75826 |
| 97s, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.079 | 49.118 | -18.039 | 0.63274 |
| 97s, rainbow, nine or lower | 60.103 | 49.118 | +10.985 | 1.22365 |
| 97s, two-tone | 37.936 | 49.118 | -11.182 | 0.77234 |
| 97s, monotone | 40.097 | 49.118 | -9.021 | 0.81634 |
| 97s, paired | 34.901 | 49.118 | -14.217 | 0.71055 |

## Does a shared suit matter?

The suit split reads 65.08% for AJs with a shared suit and 61.98% without one. AJs does better with a shared suit, by 3.10 points.

**AJs against 97s by suit overlap, in percent**

| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AJs wins | Ties | 97s wins | AJs equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 64.806 | 0.543 | 34.651 | 65.077 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.761 | 0.442 | 37.797 | 61.982 |

## How often this matchup comes up

This page stands for 16 specific-card matchups (0.0010% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 32 once you count the seats both ways (0.0020%).

## A worked example

Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: AJs averages $125.52 back, ahead of its $100 by $25.52, while 97s averages $74.48, short of its $100 by $25.52.

Think in thousands: about 625 of 1,000 go to AJs, about 370 go to 97s, and about 5 are chopped.

## The same matchup from the other side

The reversed view, 97s against AJs, shows 37.24% for 97s and 62.76% for AJs. It is the same count, so it redirects here.

## Keep exploring

The calculator link fills in AsJs against 9h7h, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength.

- [Open AsJs against 9h7h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsJs&p2=9h7h)
- [AJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ajs.md)
- [97s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/97s.md)
- [AJs vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-87s.md)
- [AJs vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-86s.md)
- [AKo vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-97s.md)
- [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md)

## How this was computed

All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 16 specific deals of AJs against 97s, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains.

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

## Related

- [AJs vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-87s.md)
- [AJs vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-86s.md)
- [AKo vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-97s.md)