--- title: "TT vs 97s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-97s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-97s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "TT is a big favorite over 97s before the flop: 81.79% to 18.21% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-86s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-97s.md"] --- # TT vs 97s: preflop equity TT is a big favorite over 97s before the flop: 81.79% to 18.21% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, TT finishes with 81.79% of the pot and 97s with 18.21%. ## TT against 97s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for TT against 97s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 81.560 | 0.462 | 17.978 | 81.791 | | 97s | 17.978 | 0.462 | 81.560 | 18.209 | TT, a pocket pair, plays 97s, a suited hand. Here a pair faces two cards that are both smaller, so the other hand needs to pair up and still be behind. TT is a big favorite here before anyone sees a flop. Ties are part of the picture: 0.46% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, TT is number 5 and 97s is number 94. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 33,517,000 | 190,000 | 7,388,000 | | 97s | 7,388,000 | 190,000 | 33,517,000 | The total is exact: 24 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. **TT 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 4.492 | 1.226 | 5.562 | 0.223 | | 97s | 0.223 | 5.562 | 1.226 | 4.492 | The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Split by what the flop looks like, TT peaks at 86.28% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and bottoms out at 73.75% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). TT stays ahead on all five textures. **TT against 97s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | TT wins | Ties | 97s wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 86.148 | 0.260 | 13.592 | 86.278 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 73.533 | 0.441 | 26.026 | 73.753 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 79.867 | 0.278 | 19.855 | 80.006 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 74.529 | 2.387 | 23.084 | 75.722 | | Paired | 17.334 | 84.637 | 0.674 | 14.689 | 84.974 | A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts TT from 75.01% by +6.78 points and 97s from 49.12% by -30.91 points. **TT 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT, all flops | 81.791 | 75.012 | +6.779 | 1.09037 | | TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 86.278 | 75.012 | +11.266 | 1.15019 | | TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 73.753 | 75.012 | -1.259 | 0.98322 | | TT, two-tone | 80.006 | 75.012 | +4.994 | 1.06658 | | TT, monotone | 75.722 | 75.012 | +0.710 | 1.00947 | | TT, paired | 84.974 | 75.012 | +9.962 | 1.13281 | | 97s, all flops | 18.209 | 49.118 | -30.909 | 0.37072 | | 97s, rainbow, ten or higher | 13.722 | 49.118 | -35.396 | 0.27937 | | 97s, rainbow, nine or lower | 26.247 | 49.118 | -22.871 | 0.53437 | | 97s, two-tone | 19.994 | 49.118 | -29.124 | 0.40706 | | 97s, monotone | 24.278 | 49.118 | -24.840 | 0.49428 | | 97s, paired | 15.026 | 49.118 | -34.092 | 0.30592 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, TT holds 82.37%; when they do not, it holds 81.22%. TT does better with a shared suit, by 1.15 points. **TT against 97s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | TT wins | Ties | 97s wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 82.113 | 0.505 | 17.382 | 82.366 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 81.007 | 0.420 | 18.573 | 81.217 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 24 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0015%) are TT against 97s, and 48 (0.0030%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average TT takes back $163.58 of it, which is $63.58 more than it put in, and 97s takes back $36.42, $63.58 less than it put in. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 815 outright wins for TT, 180 for 97s, and 5 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, 97s against TT, shows 18.21% for 97s and 81.79% for TT. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in TsTh against 9d7d, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength. - [Open TsTh against 9d7d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=TsTh&p2=9d7d) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [97s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/97s.md) - [TT vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-87s.md) - [TT vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-86s.md) - [99 vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-97s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 24 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [TT vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-87s.md) - [TT vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-86s.md) - [99 vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-97s.md)