--- title: "KTs vs 97s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-97s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-97s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KTs is a big favorite over 97s before the flop: 63.42% to 36.58% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-86s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-97s.md"] --- # KTs vs 97s: preflop equity KTs is a big favorite over 97s before the flop: 63.42% to 36.58% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, KTs is ahead of 97s by 26.84 points of equity, 63.42% to 36.58%. ## KTs against 97s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KTs against 97s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 63.085 | 0.670 | 36.245 | 63.420 | | 97s | 36.245 | 0.670 | 63.085 | 36.580 | Both hands are suited hands: KTs and 97s. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. KTs is ahead, but 97s is far from dead: it takes 362 of every 1,000 deals outright. Of every 100 boards, about 0.67 are split pots, and the equity figures already include them. The hand ranking puts KTs at 22 and 97s at 94 out of 169 starting hands. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 17,283,000 | 184,000 | 9,930,000 | | 97s | 9,930,000 | 184,000 | 17,283,000 | 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. **KTs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 1.734 | 1.585 | 2.759 | 0.577 | | 97s | 0.577 | 2.759 | 1.585 | 1.734 | 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 If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: KTs holds 69.83% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and 40.30% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) favor 97s, the hand that is behind overall. **KTs against 97s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KTs wins | Ties | 97s wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 69.668 | 0.318 | 30.014 | 69.827 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 40.075 | 0.448 | 59.477 | 40.299 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.587 | 0.317 | 37.096 | 62.745 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.635 | 3.452 | 37.913 | 60.361 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.845 | 1.366 | 33.789 | 65.528 | 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 KTs from 61.79% by +1.63 points and 97s from 49.12% by -12.54 points. **KTs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs, all flops | 63.420 | 61.789 | +1.631 | 1.02640 | | KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.827 | 61.789 | +8.038 | 1.13009 | | KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 40.299 | 61.789 | -21.490 | 0.65220 | | KTs, two-tone | 62.745 | 61.789 | +0.956 | 1.01547 | | KTs, monotone | 60.361 | 61.789 | -1.428 | 0.97689 | | KTs, paired | 65.528 | 61.789 | +3.739 | 1.06051 | | 97s, all flops | 36.580 | 49.118 | -12.538 | 0.74474 | | 97s, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.173 | 49.118 | -18.945 | 0.61430 | | 97s, rainbow, nine or lower | 59.701 | 49.118 | +10.583 | 1.21546 | | 97s, two-tone | 37.255 | 49.118 | -11.863 | 0.75848 | | 97s, monotone | 39.639 | 49.118 | -9.479 | 0.80702 | | 97s, paired | 34.472 | 49.118 | -14.646 | 0.70182 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give KTs 65.84% when the hands overlap in a suit and 62.61% when they do not. KTs does better with a shared suit, by 3.23 points. **KTs against 97s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KTs wins | Ties | 97s wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.467 | 0.754 | 33.779 | 65.844 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.291 | 0.642 | 37.067 | 62.612 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0020% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 32 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $126.84 for KTs and $73.16 for 97s; the first side gains $26.84 per all-in and the second gives up $26.84. Per 1,000 deals: KTs wins about 631, 97s wins about 362, and about 7 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: 97s against KTs is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so 97s holds 36.58% and KTs holds 63.42%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Try KsTs against 9h7h in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking. - [Open KsTs against 9h7h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsTs&p2=9h7h) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [97s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/97s.md) - [KTs vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-87s.md) - [KTs vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-86s.md) - [KQo vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-97s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 16 specific deals of KTs against 97s, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KTs vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-87s.md) - [KTs vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-86s.md) - [KQo vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-97s.md)