JJ
80.45%
Wins 80.25%, ties 0.39%
97s
19.55%
Wins 19.36%, ties 0.39%
JJ against 97s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JJ | 80.250 | 0.392 | 19.358 | 80.446 |
| 97s | 19.358 | 0.392 | 80.250 | 19.554 |
One side is a pocket pair, the other is a suited hand. Here a pair faces two cards that are both smaller, so the other hand needs to pair up and still be behind.
A gap this wide means 97s is in trouble before the flop and has few good runouts. A split pot comes up on 0.39% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that.
For context, JJ sits at number 4 of 169 starting hands and 97s at number 94 when each is run against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| JJ | 32,979,000 | 161,000 | 7,955,000 |
| 97s | 7,955,000 | 161,000 | 32,979,000 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JJ | 4.114 | 1.246 | 5.166 | 0.243 |
| 97s | 0.243 | 5.166 | 1.246 | 4.114 |
The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity.
Who is ahead on which flops
The flop changes the picture. JJ does best on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 84.84%, and worst on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 71.80%. JJ stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | JJ wins | Ties | 97s wins | JJ equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 84.738 | 0.200 | 15.062 | 84.838 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 71.501 | 0.595 | 27.904 | 71.798 |
| Two-tone | 46.545 | 78.460 | 0.263 | 21.277 | 78.591 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 73.566 | 2.374 | 24.060 | 74.753 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 83.888 | 0.343 | 15.769 | 84.060 |
Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank.
Compared with a random hand
Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts JJ from 77.47% by +2.98 points and 97s from 49.12% by -29.57 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JJ, all flops | 80.446 | 77.469 | +2.977 | 1.03843 |
| JJ, rainbow, ten or higher | 84.838 | 77.469 | +7.369 | 1.09512 |
| JJ, rainbow, nine or lower | 71.798 | 77.469 | -5.671 | 0.92680 |
| JJ, two-tone | 78.591 | 77.469 | +1.122 | 1.01448 |
| JJ, monotone | 74.753 | 77.469 | -2.716 | 0.96494 |
| JJ, paired | 84.060 | 77.469 | +6.591 | 1.08508 |
| 97s, all flops | 19.554 | 49.118 | -29.564 | 0.39810 |
| 97s, rainbow, ten or higher | 15.162 | 49.118 | -33.956 | 0.30869 |
| 97s, rainbow, nine or lower | 28.202 | 49.118 | -20.916 | 0.57417 |
| 97s, two-tone | 21.409 | 49.118 | -27.709 | 0.43587 |
| 97s, monotone | 25.247 | 49.118 | -23.871 | 0.51401 |
| 97s, paired | 15.940 | 49.118 | -33.178 | 0.32452 |
Does a shared suit matter?
The suit split reads 81.02% for JJ with a shared suit and 79.87% without one. JJ does better with a shared suit, by 1.15 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | JJ wins | Ties | 97s wins | JJ equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 80.805 | 0.434 | 18.761 | 81.022 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 79.696 | 0.350 | 19.954 | 79.871 |
How often this matchup comes up
This page stands for 24 specific-card matchups (0.0015% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 48 once you count the seats both ways (0.0030%).
A worked example
Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. JJ's equity of 80.45% is worth $160.90, a $60.90 edge, and 97s' 19.55% is worth $39.10, which is $60.90 under its stake.
In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 802 won outright by JJ, about 194 won outright by 97s and about 4 split.
The same matchup from the other side
97s against JJ adds nothing new: it is 19.55% for 97s and 80.45% for JJ, the same figures reversed.
Keep exploring
Try JsJh against 9d7d 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.
How this was computed
All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 24 specific deals of JJ 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.
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