--- title: "KJs vs 97s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-97s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-97s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KJs is a big favorite over 97s before the flop: 63.27% to 36.73% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-86s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-97s.md"] --- # KJs vs 97s: preflop equity KJs is a big favorite over 97s before the flop: 63.27% to 36.73% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If KJs and 97s get all the chips in before the flop, KJs owns 63.27% of the pot in the long run and 97s owns 36.73%. ## KJs against 97s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KJs against 97s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 62.936 | 0.676 | 36.388 | 63.274 | | 97s | 36.388 | 0.676 | 62.936 | 36.726 | This is a contest between two suited hands, KJs 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. 0.68% 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, KJs is number 20 of the 169 starting hands and 97s is number 94. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 17,242,000 | 185,000 | 9,969,000 | | 97s | 9,969,000 | 185,000 | 17,242,000 | The total is exact: 16 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **KJs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 1.723 | 1.589 | 2.748 | 0.580 | | 97s | 0.580 | 2.748 | 1.589 | 1.723 | 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 KJs prefers rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, where it holds 69.78%, and likes low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) least, where it holds 39.71%. 97s takes over on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), so the favorite before the flop is the underdog on those boards. **KJs against 97s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KJs wins | Ties | 97s wins | KJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 69.630 | 0.297 | 30.073 | 69.778 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 39.425 | 0.575 | 60.000 | 39.712 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.478 | 0.324 | 37.198 | 62.640 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.631 | 3.456 | 37.913 | 60.359 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.570 | 1.362 | 34.068 | 65.251 | 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 Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts KJs from 62.57% by +0.70 points and 97s from 49.12% by -12.39 points. **KJs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs, all flops | 63.274 | 62.567 | +0.707 | 1.01130 | | KJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.778 | 62.567 | +7.211 | 1.11525 | | KJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 39.712 | 62.567 | -22.855 | 0.63471 | | KJs, two-tone | 62.640 | 62.567 | +0.073 | 1.00117 | | KJs, monotone | 60.359 | 62.567 | -2.208 | 0.96471 | | KJs, paired | 65.251 | 62.567 | +2.684 | 1.04290 | | 97s, all flops | 36.726 | 49.118 | -12.392 | 0.74771 | | 97s, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.222 | 49.118 | -18.896 | 0.61529 | | 97s, rainbow, nine or lower | 60.288 | 49.118 | +11.170 | 1.22741 | | 97s, two-tone | 37.360 | 49.118 | -11.758 | 0.76062 | | 97s, monotone | 39.641 | 49.118 | -9.477 | 0.80706 | | 97s, paired | 34.749 | 49.118 | -14.369 | 0.70746 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 65.65% for KJs with a shared suit and 62.48% without one. KJs does better with a shared suit, by 3.17 points. **KJs against 97s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJs wins | Ties | 97s wins | KJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.268 | 0.762 | 33.970 | 65.649 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.159 | 0.647 | 37.194 | 62.482 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 16 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0010% of 1,624,350, and 32 (0.0020%) in either order. ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average KJs takes back $126.54 of it, which is $26.54 more than it put in, and 97s takes back $73.46, $26.54 less than it put in. Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 629 for KJs, 364 for 97s and 7 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: 97s against KJs is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so 97s holds 36.73% and KJs holds 63.27%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring KsJs against 9h7h 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. - [Open KsJs against 9h7h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsJs&p2=9h7h) - [KJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjs.md) - [97s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/97s.md) - [KJs vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-87s.md) - [KJs vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-86s.md) - [A8s vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-97s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Method: exact enumeration. The 16 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 - [KJs vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-87s.md) - [KJs vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-86s.md) - [A8s vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-97s.md)