--- title: "33 vs T8s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-t8s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-t8s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "33 vs T8s is close to a coin flip before the flop: 47.62% to 52.38% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-t9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-98s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-t8s.md"] --- # 33 vs T8s: preflop equity 33 vs T8s is close to a coin flip before the flop: 47.62% to 52.38% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts T8s at 52.38% and 33 at 47.62% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## 33 against T8s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for 33 against T8s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 33 | 46.898 | 1.452 | 51.650 | 47.624 | | T8s | 51.650 | 1.452 | 46.898 | 52.376 | The matchup pits a pocket pair against a suited hand. One hand holds a pair and the other holds two cards that both outrank it, which keeps the equity closer than most people expect. This is close to even money, with T8s a little ahead. The tie share is 1.45%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. 33 ranks number 66 of 169 starting hands, and T8s ranks number 73, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 33 | 19,273,000 | 597,000 | 21,226,000 | | T8s | 21,226,000 | 597,000 | 19,273,000 | 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. **33 against T8s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 33 | 0.909 | 2.132 | 1.936 | 1.100 | | T8s | 1.100 | 1.936 | 2.132 | 0.909 | 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: T8s holds 53.78% on two-tone flops and 48.25% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). The lead reverses on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and paired flops: there 33 is the favorite even though T8s is ahead overall. **33 against T8s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | 33 wins | Ties | T8s wins | 33 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 46.825 | 0.827 | 52.348 | 47.239 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 51.420 | 0.662 | 47.918 | 51.751 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 45.839 | 0.760 | 53.401 | 46.219 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 46.368 | 3.527 | 50.105 | 48.132 | | Paired | 17.334 | 48.520 | 3.856 | 47.624 | 50.448 | 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 Against one random hand instead, 33 holds 53.69% and T8s holds 52.33%. Facing each other changes that by -6.07 points for 33 and +0.05 points for T8s. **33 and T8s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 33, all flops | 47.624 | 53.693 | -6.069 | 0.88697 | | 33, rainbow, ten or higher | 47.239 | 53.693 | -6.454 | 0.87980 | | 33, rainbow, nine or lower | 51.751 | 53.693 | -1.942 | 0.96383 | | 33, two-tone | 46.219 | 53.693 | -7.474 | 0.86080 | | 33, monotone | 48.132 | 53.693 | -5.561 | 0.89643 | | 33, paired | 50.448 | 53.693 | -3.245 | 0.93956 | | T8s, all flops | 52.376 | 52.334 | +0.042 | 1.00080 | | T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 52.761 | 52.334 | +0.427 | 1.00816 | | T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 48.249 | 52.334 | -4.085 | 0.92194 | | T8s, two-tone | 53.781 | 52.334 | +1.447 | 1.02765 | | T8s, monotone | 51.868 | 52.334 | -0.466 | 0.99110 | | T8s, paired | 49.552 | 52.334 | -2.782 | 0.94684 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 12 share a suit (T8s at 52.23%) and 12 do not (52.53%). T8s does better with no shared suit, by 0.30 points. **33 against T8s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 33 wins | Ties | T8s wins | 33 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 47.032 | 1.482 | 51.486 | 47.773 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 46.764 | 1.422 | 51.814 | 47.475 | ## How often this matchup comes up 33 against T8s is made up of 24 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0015% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 48 counting both seat orders, 0.0030%. ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: T8s averages $104.76 back, ahead of its $100 by $4.76, while 33 averages $95.24, short of its $100 by $4.76. Think in thousands: about 516 of 1,000 go to T8s, about 469 go to 33, and about 15 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, T8s against 33, shows 52.38% for T8s and 47.62% for 33. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring Try 3s3h against Td8d 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 3s3h against Td8d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=3s3h&p2=Td8d) - [33 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/33.md) - [T8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t8s.md) - [33 vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-t9o.md) - [33 vs 98s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-98s.md) - [T9s vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-t8s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 24 specific 33 against T8s deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [33 vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-t9o.md) - [33 vs 98s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-98s.md) - [T9s vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-t8s.md)