--- title: "KJo vs 97s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-97s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-97s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KJo is a big favorite over 97s before the flop: 60.80% to 39.20% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-86s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-97s.md"] --- # KJo vs 97s: preflop equity KJo is a big favorite over 97s before the flop: 60.80% to 39.20% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 60.80% for KJo and 39.20% for 97s, so KJo leads by 21.60 points. ## KJo against 97s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KJo against 97s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo | 60.483 | 0.640 | 38.877 | 60.803 | | 97s | 38.877 | 0.640 | 60.483 | 39.197 | KJo and 97s are an offsuit hand and a suited hand, in that order. 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. About 0.64% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands. By strength against a random hand, KJo holds place 26 of 169 and 97s holds place 94. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo | 49,711,000 | 526,000 | 31,953,000 | | 97s | 31,953,000 | 526,000 | 49,711,000 | 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. **KJo 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo | 1.551 | 1.653 | 2.572 | 0.645 | | 97s | 0.645 | 2.572 | 1.653 | 1.551 | In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Split by what the flop looks like, KJo peaks at 68.48% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and bottoms out at 37.26% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). On low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) the numbers flip and 97s is the one ahead. **KJo against 97s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KJo wins | Ties | 97s wins | KJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 68.328 | 0.306 | 31.366 | 68.481 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 36.961 | 0.600 | 62.439 | 37.261 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 59.121 | 0.344 | 40.535 | 59.293 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 57.749 | 2.437 | 39.814 | 58.968 | | Paired | 17.091 | 62.377 | 1.399 | 36.224 | 63.077 | Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank. ## Compared with a random hand The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +0.23 points for KJo, from 60.57%, and -9.92 for 97s, from 49.12%. **KJo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo, all flops | 60.803 | 60.569 | +0.234 | 1.00386 | | KJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.481 | 60.569 | +7.912 | 1.13063 | | KJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 37.261 | 60.569 | -23.308 | 0.61518 | | KJo, two-tone | 59.293 | 60.569 | -1.276 | 0.97893 | | KJo, monotone | 58.968 | 60.569 | -1.601 | 0.97357 | | KJo, paired | 63.077 | 60.569 | +2.508 | 1.04141 | | 97s, all flops | 39.197 | 49.118 | -9.921 | 0.79802 | | 97s, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.519 | 49.118 | -17.599 | 0.64170 | | 97s, rainbow, nine or lower | 62.739 | 49.118 | +13.621 | 1.27731 | | 97s, two-tone | 40.707 | 49.118 | -8.411 | 0.82876 | | 97s, monotone | 41.032 | 49.118 | -8.086 | 0.83538 | | 97s, paired | 36.923 | 49.118 | -12.195 | 0.75172 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Two kinds of deal exist here. In 24 of them the hands share a suit and KJo holds 61.50%. In 24 they do not, and it holds 60.10%. KJo does better with a shared suit, by 1.40 points. **KJo against 97s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJo wins | Ties | 97s wins | KJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 61.161 | 0.681 | 38.158 | 61.502 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.804 | 0.599 | 39.597 | 60.104 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 48 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0030%) are KJo 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 KJo takes back $121.60 of it, which is $21.60 more than it put in, and 97s takes back $78.40, $21.60 less than it put in. Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 605 for KJo, 389 for 97s and 6 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, 97s against KJo, shows 39.20% for 97s and 60.80% for KJo. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in KsJh against 9d7d, 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 KsJh against 9d7d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsJh&p2=9d7d) - [KJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjo.md) - [97s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/97s.md) - [KJo vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-87s.md) - [KJo vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-86s.md) - [55 vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-97s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 48 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KJo vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-87s.md) - [KJo vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-86s.md) - [55 vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-97s.md)