--- title: "KQs vs A7s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-a7s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-a7s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, KQs or A7s? A7s leads 56.99% to 43.01% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-a9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-kjo.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-a7s.md"] --- # KQs vs A7s: preflop equity Who is ahead, KQs or A7s? A7s leads 56.99% to 43.01% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, A7s finishes with 56.99% of the pot and KQs with 43.01%. ## KQs against A7s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQs against A7s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs | 42.768 | 0.490 | 56.742 | 43.013 | | A7s | 56.742 | 0.490 | 42.768 | 56.987 | Two suited hands meet here: KQs against A7s. 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. 0.49% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. For context, KQs sits at number 16 of 169 starting hands and A7s at number 24 when each is run against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs | 11,717,000 | 134,000 | 15,546,000 | | A7s | 15,546,000 | 134,000 | 11,717,000 | Exact total: 16 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. **KQs against A7s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, A7s peaks at 75.19% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 50.72% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. A7s stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **KQs against A7s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KQs wins | Ties | A7s wins | KQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 49.220 | 0.115 | 50.665 | 49.278 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 24.389 | 0.849 | 74.762 | 24.814 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 44.079 | 0.252 | 55.669 | 44.205 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 43.888 | 3.406 | 52.706 | 45.591 | | Paired | 17.091 | 37.403 | 0.616 | 61.981 | 37.711 | Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 63.40% for KQs, 60.98% for A7s. Here the change is -20.39 and -3.99 points. **KQs and A7s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs, all flops | 43.013 | 63.400 | -20.387 | 0.67844 | | KQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 49.278 | 63.400 | -14.122 | 0.77726 | | KQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 24.814 | 63.400 | -38.586 | 0.39139 | | KQs, two-tone | 44.205 | 63.400 | -19.195 | 0.69724 | | KQs, monotone | 45.591 | 63.400 | -17.809 | 0.71910 | | KQs, paired | 37.711 | 63.400 | -25.689 | 0.59481 | | A7s, all flops | 56.987 | 60.984 | -3.997 | 0.93446 | | A7s, rainbow, ten or higher | 50.722 | 60.984 | -10.262 | 0.83173 | | A7s, rainbow, nine or lower | 75.186 | 60.984 | +14.202 | 1.23288 | | A7s, two-tone | 55.795 | 60.984 | -5.189 | 0.91491 | | A7s, monotone | 54.409 | 60.984 | -6.575 | 0.89218 | | A7s, paired | 62.289 | 60.984 | +1.305 | 1.02140 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, A7s has 58.88%; looking only at deals where they do not, 56.36%. A7s does better with a shared suit, by 2.52 points. **KQs against A7s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQs wins | Ties | A7s wins | KQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 40.837 | 0.568 | 58.595 | 41.121 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 43.412 | 0.464 | 56.124 | 43.644 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 16 are KQs in one seat and A7s in the other (0.0010%); with the seats swapped too, 32 (0.0020%). ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average A7s takes back $113.98 of it, which is $13.98 more than it put in, and KQs takes back $86.02, $13.98 less than it put in. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 567 wins for A7s, 428 for KQs and 5 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, A7s against KQs, shows 56.99% for A7s and 43.01% for KQs. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring KsQs 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. - [Open KsQs against Ah7h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQs&p2=Ah7h) - [KQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqs.md) - [A7s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a7s.md) - [KQs vs A9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-a9o.md) - [KQs vs KJo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-kjo.md) - [66 vs A7s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-a7s.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 - [KQs vs A9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-a9o.md) - [KQs vs KJo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-kjo.md) - [66 vs A7s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-a7s.md)