KJs
43.02%
Wins 42.78%, ties 0.48%
A7s
56.98%
Wins 56.74%, ties 0.48%
KJs against A7s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJs | 42.776 | 0.482 | 56.742 | 43.017 |
| A7s | 56.742 | 0.482 | 42.776 | 56.983 |
KJs meets A7s, and both are suited hands. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits.
The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. The tie share is 0.48%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright.
The hand ranking puts KJs at 20 and A7s at 24 out of 169 starting hands.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| KJs | 11,719,000 | 132,000 | 15,546,000 |
| A7s | 15,546,000 | 132,000 | 11,719,000 |
The board total is exact, 16 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJs | 0.755 | 2.338 | 1.762 | 1.325 |
| A7s | 1.325 | 1.762 | 2.338 | 0.755 |
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
Across the five flop textures A7s' equity moves by 24.00 points, from 50.82% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better to 74.82% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). A7s stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.
| Flop | Share of flops | KJs wins | Ties | A7s wins | KJs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 49.115 | 0.121 | 50.764 | 49.176 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 24.796 | 0.778 | 74.426 | 25.185 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 44.088 | 0.243 | 55.669 | 44.209 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 43.892 | 3.402 | 52.706 | 45.593 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 37.399 | 0.620 | 61.981 | 37.709 |
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
Relative to a random opponent, KJs changes by -19.55 points (baseline 62.57%) and A7s by -4.00 points (baseline 60.98%).
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJs, all flops | 43.017 | 62.567 | -19.550 | 0.68753 |
| KJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 49.176 | 62.567 | -13.391 | 0.78597 |
| KJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 25.185 | 62.567 | -37.382 | 0.40253 |
| KJs, two-tone | 44.209 | 62.567 | -18.358 | 0.70659 |
| KJs, monotone | 45.593 | 62.567 | -16.974 | 0.72871 |
| KJs, paired | 37.709 | 62.567 | -24.858 | 0.60270 |
| A7s, all flops | 56.983 | 60.984 | -4.001 | 0.93439 |
| A7s, rainbow, ten or higher | 50.824 | 60.984 | -10.160 | 0.83340 |
| A7s, rainbow, nine or lower | 74.815 | 60.984 | +13.831 | 1.22680 |
| A7s, two-tone | 55.791 | 60.984 | -5.193 | 0.91485 |
| A7s, monotone | 54.407 | 60.984 | -6.577 | 0.89215 |
| A7s, paired | 62.291 | 60.984 | +1.307 | 1.02143 |
Does a shared suit matter?
The suit split reads 58.88% for A7s with a shared suit and 56.35% without one. A7s does better with a shared suit, by 2.53 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJs wins | Ties | A7s wins | KJs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 40.846 | 0.559 | 58.595 | 41.125 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 43.419 | 0.457 | 56.124 | 43.648 |
How often this matchup comes up
Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 16 are KJs in one seat and A7s in the other (0.0010%); with the seats swapped too, 32 (0.0020%).
A worked example
Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. A7s averages $113.96 from the $200, up $13.96; KJs averages $86.04, down $13.96.
Think in thousands: about 567 of 1,000 go to A7s, about 428 go to KJs, and about 5 are chopped.
The same matchup from the other side
A7s versus KJs is this same page seen from the other hand: 56.98% for A7s, 43.02% for KJs.
Keep exploring
KsJs against Ah7h 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
Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 16 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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