--- title: "AQo vs 97s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-97s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-97s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQo is a big favorite over 97s before the flop: 60.36% to 39.64% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-86s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-97s.md"] --- # AQo vs 97s: preflop equity AQo is a big favorite over 97s before the flop: 60.36% to 39.64% 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, AQo finishes with 60.36% of the pot and 97s with 39.64%. ## AQo against 97s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQo against 97s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 60.145 | 0.426 | 39.429 | 60.358 | | 97s | 39.429 | 0.426 | 60.145 | 39.642 | The matchup pits an offsuit hand against a suited hand. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. AQo is ahead, but 97s is far from dead: it takes 394 of every 1,000 deals outright. 0.43% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. AQo ranks number 14 of 169 starting hands, and 97s ranks number 94, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 49,434,000 | 350,000 | 32,407,000 | | 97s | 32,407,000 | 350,000 | 49,434,000 | Exact total: 48 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. **AQo 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 1.523 | 1.663 | 2.536 | 0.657 | | 97s | 0.657 | 2.536 | 1.663 | 1.523 | 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 Across the five flop textures AQo's equity moves by 30.76 points, from 37.17% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 67.93% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. 97s takes over on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), so the favorite before the flop is the underdog on those boards. **AQo against 97s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQo wins | Ties | 97s wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 67.844 | 0.168 | 31.988 | 67.928 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 36.853 | 0.627 | 62.520 | 37.167 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 58.691 | 0.245 | 41.064 | 58.813 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 57.389 | 2.359 | 40.252 | 58.569 | | Paired | 17.091 | 62.425 | 0.632 | 36.943 | 62.741 | 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 Against one random hand instead, AQo holds 64.43% and 97s holds 49.12%. Facing each other changes that by -4.07 points for AQo and -9.48 points for 97s. **AQo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo, all flops | 60.358 | 64.432 | -4.074 | 0.93677 | | AQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.928 | 64.432 | +3.496 | 1.05426 | | AQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 37.167 | 64.432 | -27.265 | 0.57684 | | AQo, two-tone | 58.813 | 64.432 | -5.619 | 0.91279 | | AQo, monotone | 58.569 | 64.432 | -5.863 | 0.90900 | | AQo, paired | 62.741 | 64.432 | -1.691 | 0.97376 | | 97s, all flops | 39.642 | 49.118 | -9.476 | 0.80708 | | 97s, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.072 | 49.118 | -17.046 | 0.65296 | | 97s, rainbow, nine or lower | 62.833 | 49.118 | +13.715 | 1.27923 | | 97s, two-tone | 41.187 | 49.118 | -7.931 | 0.83853 | | 97s, monotone | 41.431 | 49.118 | -7.687 | 0.84350 | | 97s, paired | 37.259 | 49.118 | -11.859 | 0.75856 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, AQo holds 61.07%; when they do not, it holds 59.64%. AQo does better with a shared suit, by 1.43 points. **AQo against 97s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQo wins | Ties | 97s wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 60.840 | 0.468 | 38.692 | 61.074 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.449 | 0.385 | 40.166 | 59.642 | ## 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 $120.72 for AQo and $79.28 for 97s; the first side gains $20.72 per all-in and the second gives up $20.72. Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 602 for AQo, 394 for 97s and 4 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, 97s against AQo, shows 39.64% for 97s and 60.36% for AQo. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with AsQh against 9d7d already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking. - [Open AsQh against 9d7d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQh&p2=9d7d) - [AQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqo.md) - [97s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/97s.md) - [AQo vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-87s.md) - [AQo vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-86s.md) - [AJo vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-97s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Method: exact enumeration. The 48 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AQo vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-87s.md) - [AQo vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-86s.md) - [AJo vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-97s.md)