88
81.14%
Wins 80.64%, ties 1.00%
44
18.86%
Wins 18.36%, ties 1.00%
88 against 44: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | 80.644 | 0.996 | 18.360 | 81.142 |
| 44 | 18.360 | 0.996 | 80.644 | 18.858 |
88 meets 44, and both are pocket pairs. Two pairs against each other is a one-way street: the lower pair needs one of its two remaining cards.
A gap this wide means 44 is in trouble before the flop and has few good runouts. The tie share is 1.00%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright.
Among the 169 starting hands, 88 is number 7 and 44 is number 48 by strength against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | 49,711,000 | 614,000 | 11,318,000 |
| 44 | 11,318,000 | 614,000 | 49,711,000 |
The board total is exact, 36 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | 4.303 | 1.240 | 5.447 | 0.232 |
| 44 | 0.232 | 5.447 | 1.240 | 4.303 |
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
Across the five flop textures 88's equity moves by 13.57 points, from 72.23% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 85.80% on paired flops. 88 stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | 88 wins | Ties | 44 wins | 88 equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.844 | 82.176 | 0.601 | 17.223 | 82.476 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.065 | 71.851 | 0.753 | 27.396 | 72.228 |
| Two-tone | 46.363 | 79.903 | 0.611 | 19.486 | 80.209 |
| Monotone | 5.152 | 74.573 | 2.266 | 23.161 | 75.706 |
| Paired | 17.576 | 84.658 | 2.288 | 13.054 | 85.802 |
Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank.
Compared with a random hand
Start from the random-hand figures, 69.16% for 88 and 57.02% for 44. This opponent changes them by +11.98 and -38.16 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88, all flops | 81.142 | 69.163 | +11.979 | 1.17320 |
| 88, rainbow, ten or higher | 82.476 | 69.163 | +13.313 | 1.19249 |
| 88, rainbow, nine or lower | 72.228 | 69.163 | +3.065 | 1.04432 |
| 88, two-tone | 80.209 | 69.163 | +11.046 | 1.15971 |
| 88, monotone | 75.706 | 69.163 | +6.543 | 1.09460 |
| 88, paired | 85.802 | 69.163 | +16.639 | 1.24058 |
| 44, all flops | 18.858 | 57.023 | -38.165 | 0.33071 |
| 44, rainbow, ten or higher | 17.524 | 57.023 | -39.499 | 0.30731 |
| 44, rainbow, nine or lower | 27.772 | 57.023 | -29.251 | 0.48703 |
| 44, two-tone | 19.791 | 57.023 | -37.232 | 0.34707 |
| 44, monotone | 24.294 | 57.023 | -32.729 | 0.42604 |
| 44, paired | 14.198 | 57.023 | -42.825 | 0.24899 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Of the deals of this matchup, 30 share a suit (88 at 81.28%) and 6 do not (80.47%). 88 does better with a shared suit, by 0.81 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 88 wins | Ties | 44 wins | 88 equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 30 | 83.33 | 80.771 | 1.009 | 18.220 | 81.276 |
| No shared suit | 6 | 16.67 | 80.008 | 0.928 | 19.064 | 80.472 |
How often this matchup comes up
The class pair covers 36 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0022% of 1,624,350, and 72 (0.0044%) in either order.
A worked example
With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $162.28 for 88 and $37.72 for 44; the first side gains $62.28 per all-in and the second gives up $62.28.
Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 806 for 88, 184 for 44 and 10 tied.
The same matchup from the other side
Swap the hands and you get 44 with 18.86% against 88 with 81.14%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first.
Keep exploring
Open the calculator with 8s8h against 4d4c already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking.
How this was computed
Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 36 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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