JTo
63.11%
Wins 62.54%, ties 1.14%
97s
36.89%
Wins 36.32%, ties 1.14%
JTo against 97s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JTo | 62.538 | 1.140 | 36.322 | 63.108 |
| 97s | 36.322 | 1.140 | 62.538 | 36.892 |
The first hand is an offsuit hand; the second is a suited hand. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits.
A 26.22 point lead is real, and 97s still takes about 363 of every 1,000 deals outright. 1.14% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that.
Ranked by equity against a random hand, JTo is number 57 of the 169 starting hands and 97s is number 94.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| JTo | 51,400,000 | 937,000 | 29,853,000 |
| 97s | 29,853,000 | 937,000 | 51,400,000 |
48 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JTo | 1.711 | 1.599 | 2.753 | 0.585 |
| 97s | 0.585 | 2.753 | 1.599 | 1.711 |
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
Split by what the flop looks like, JTo peaks at 70.63% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and bottoms out at 42.21% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). The overall edge for JTo hides low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where 97s comes out in front.
| Flop | Share of flops | JTo wins | Ties | 97s wins | JTo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 70.311 | 0.646 | 29.043 | 70.634 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 42.002 | 0.405 | 57.593 | 42.205 |
| Two-tone | 46.667 | 61.637 | 0.563 | 37.800 | 61.919 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 59.701 | 2.609 | 37.690 | 61.005 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 62.210 | 3.253 | 34.537 | 63.837 |
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
A random hand would give JTo 55.25% and 97s 49.12%. Against each other the change is +7.86 points for JTo and -12.23 for 97s.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JTo, all flops | 63.108 | 55.248 | +7.860 | 1.14227 |
| JTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.634 | 55.248 | +15.386 | 1.27849 |
| JTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 42.205 | 55.248 | -13.043 | 0.76392 |
| JTo, two-tone | 61.919 | 55.248 | +6.671 | 1.12075 |
| JTo, monotone | 61.005 | 55.248 | +5.757 | 1.10420 |
| JTo, paired | 63.837 | 55.248 | +8.589 | 1.15546 |
| 97s, all flops | 36.892 | 49.118 | -12.226 | 0.75109 |
| 97s, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.366 | 49.118 | -19.752 | 0.59787 |
| 97s, rainbow, nine or lower | 57.795 | 49.118 | +8.677 | 1.17666 |
| 97s, two-tone | 38.081 | 49.118 | -11.037 | 0.77530 |
| 97s, monotone | 38.995 | 49.118 | -10.123 | 0.79390 |
| 97s, paired | 36.163 | 49.118 | -12.955 | 0.73625 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common JTo has 63.82% equity, and with none in common it has 62.40%. JTo does better with a shared suit, by 1.42 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | JTo wins | Ties | 97s wins | JTo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 63.224 | 1.182 | 35.594 | 63.815 |
| No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 61.852 | 1.098 | 37.050 | 62.401 |
How often this matchup comes up
How often does it happen? 48 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0030%) are JTo against 97s, and 96 (0.0059%) if either hand may sit in either seat.
A worked example
Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average JTo takes back $126.22 of it, which is $26.22 more than it put in, and 97s takes back $73.78, $26.22 less than it put in.
Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 625 for JTo, 363 for 97s and 12 tied.
The same matchup from the other side
Swap the hands and you get 97s with 36.89% against JTo with 63.11%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first.
Keep exploring
JsTh 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.
How this was computed
We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 48 specific JTo against 97s deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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