--- title: "QTo vs 97s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-97s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-97s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QTo is a big favorite over 97s before the flop: 62.11% to 37.90% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-86s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/44-vs-97s.md"] --- # QTo vs 97s: preflop equity QTo is a big favorite over 97s before the flop: 62.11% to 37.90% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, QTo takes 62.11% of the pot on average and 97s takes the other 37.89%. ## QTo against 97s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QTo against 97s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTo | 61.667 | 0.876 | 37.457 | 62.105 | | 97s | 37.457 | 0.876 | 61.667 | 37.895 | We compare an offsuit hand with a suited hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. A 24.22 point lead is real, and 97s still takes about 374 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 0.88% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. Ranked by equity against a random hand, QTo is number 47 of the 169 starting hands and 97s is number 94. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTo | 50,684,000 | 720,000 | 30,786,000 | | 97s | 30,786,000 | 720,000 | 50,684,000 | 48 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand. **QTo 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTo | 1.639 | 1.622 | 2.670 | 0.610 | | 97s | 0.610 | 2.670 | 1.622 | 1.639 | 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 If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: QTo holds 69.83% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and 39.49% 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. **QTo against 97s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QTo wins | Ties | 97s wins | QTo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 69.585 | 0.481 | 29.934 | 69.825 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 39.259 | 0.451 | 60.290 | 39.485 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 60.506 | 0.447 | 39.047 | 60.730 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 58.788 | 2.517 | 38.695 | 60.046 | | Paired | 17.091 | 62.543 | 2.274 | 35.183 | 63.680 | 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 Against one random hand instead, QTo holds 57.29% and 97s holds 49.12%. Facing each other changes that by +4.82 points for QTo and -11.23 points for 97s. **QTo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTo, all flops | 62.105 | 57.291 | +4.814 | 1.08403 | | QTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.825 | 57.291 | +12.534 | 1.21878 | | QTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 39.485 | 57.291 | -17.806 | 0.68920 | | QTo, two-tone | 60.730 | 57.291 | +3.439 | 1.06003 | | QTo, monotone | 60.046 | 57.291 | +2.755 | 1.04809 | | QTo, paired | 63.680 | 57.291 | +6.389 | 1.11152 | | 97s, all flops | 37.895 | 49.118 | -11.223 | 0.77151 | | 97s, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.175 | 49.118 | -18.943 | 0.61434 | | 97s, rainbow, nine or lower | 60.515 | 49.118 | +11.397 | 1.23203 | | 97s, two-tone | 39.270 | 49.118 | -9.848 | 0.79950 | | 97s, monotone | 39.954 | 49.118 | -9.164 | 0.81343 | | 97s, paired | 36.320 | 49.118 | -12.798 | 0.73944 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 62.80% for QTo with a shared suit and 61.41% without one. QTo does better with a shared suit, by 1.39 points. **QTo against 97s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QTo wins | Ties | 97s wins | QTo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 62.345 | 0.917 | 36.738 | 62.803 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 60.990 | 0.834 | 38.176 | 61.407 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 48 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0030% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 96, or 0.0059%. ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. QTo averages $124.22 from the $200, up $24.22; 97s averages $75.78, down $24.22. A thousand deals look like this: QTo takes 617, 97s takes 374, 9 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for 97s against QTo, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 37.89% and 62.11%. ## Keep exploring QsTh against 9d7d 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 QsTh against 9d7d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsTh&p2=9d7d) - [QTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qto.md) - [97s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/97s.md) - [QTo vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-87s.md) - [QTo vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-86s.md) - [44 vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/44-vs-97s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Method: exact enumeration. The 48 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 - [QTo vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-87s.md) - [QTo vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-86s.md) - [44 vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/44-vs-97s.md)