--- title: "88 vs 75s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-75s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-75s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "88 is a big favorite over 75s before the flop: 81.56% to 18.44% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-54s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-75s.md"] --- # 88 vs 75s: preflop equity 88 is a big favorite over 75s before the flop: 81.56% to 18.44% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If 88 and 75s get all the chips in before the flop, 88 owns 81.56% of the pot in the long run and 75s owns 18.44%. ## 88 against 75s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for 88 against 75s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 88 | 81.103 | 0.923 | 17.974 | 81.564 | | 75s | 17.974 | 0.923 | 81.103 | 18.436 | Here a pocket pair (88) meets a suited hand (75s). The pair outranks both of the other hand's cards, which is why the pair is a strong favorite. That is a heavy lead: 75s needs the board to help it on most runouts and still falls behind far more often than not. Split pots make up 0.92% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. For context, 88 sits at number 7 of 169 starting hands and 75s at number 124 when each is run against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 88 | 33,330,000 | 379,000 | 7,386,000 | | 75s | 7,386,000 | 379,000 | 33,330,000 | The board total is exact, 24 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **88 against 75s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 88 | 4.424 | 1.233 | 5.564 | 0.226 | | 75s | 0.226 | 5.564 | 1.233 | 4.424 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and 88 is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (85.82%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (72.21%). 88 stays ahead on all five textures. **88 against 75s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | 88 wins | Ties | 75s wins | 88 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.844 | 85.531 | 0.577 | 13.892 | 85.819 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.065 | 71.988 | 0.448 | 27.564 | 72.212 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 79.623 | 0.522 | 19.855 | 79.884 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 74.336 | 2.589 | 23.075 | 75.630 | | Paired | 17.334 | 83.173 | 2.154 | 14.673 | 84.250 | 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 Relative to a random opponent, 88 changes by +12.40 points (baseline 69.16%) and 75s by -25.24 points (baseline 43.68%). **88 and 75s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 88, all flops | 81.564 | 69.163 | +12.401 | 1.17930 | | 88, rainbow, ten or higher | 85.819 | 69.163 | +16.656 | 1.24082 | | 88, rainbow, nine or lower | 72.212 | 69.163 | +3.049 | 1.04408 | | 88, two-tone | 79.884 | 69.163 | +10.721 | 1.15501 | | 88, monotone | 75.630 | 69.163 | +6.467 | 1.09350 | | 88, paired | 84.250 | 69.163 | +15.087 | 1.21814 | | 75s, all flops | 18.436 | 43.676 | -25.240 | 0.42211 | | 75s, rainbow, ten or higher | 14.181 | 43.676 | -29.495 | 0.32469 | | 75s, rainbow, nine or lower | 27.788 | 43.676 | -15.888 | 0.63623 | | 75s, two-tone | 20.116 | 43.676 | -23.560 | 0.46057 | | 75s, monotone | 24.370 | 43.676 | -19.306 | 0.55797 | | 75s, paired | 15.750 | 43.676 | -27.926 | 0.36061 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common 88 has 82.14% equity, and with none in common it has 80.99%. 88 does better with a shared suit, by 1.15 points. **88 against 75s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 88 wins | Ties | 75s wins | 88 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 81.655 | 0.965 | 17.380 | 82.138 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 80.550 | 0.881 | 18.569 | 80.991 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 24 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0015% of 1,624,350, and 48 (0.0030%) in either order. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. 88's equity of 81.56% is worth $163.12, a $63.12 edge, and 75s' 18.44% is worth $36.88, which is $63.12 under its stake. Think in thousands: about 811 of 1,000 go to 88, about 180 go to 75s, and about 9 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, 75s against 88, shows 18.44% for 75s and 81.56% for 88. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in 8s8h against 7d5d, 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 8s8h against 7d5d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=8s8h&p2=7d5d) - [88 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/88.md) - [75s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/75s.md) - [88 vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-65s.md) - [88 vs 54s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-54s.md) - [AKs vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-75s.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 - [88 vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-65s.md) - [88 vs 54s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-54s.md) - [AKs vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-75s.md)