88
67.54%
Wins 67.35%, ties 0.38%
A6s
32.46%
Wins 32.27%, ties 0.38%
88 against A6s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | 67.348 | 0.377 | 32.275 | 67.536 |
| A6s | 32.275 | 0.377 | 67.348 | 32.464 |
88, a pocket pair, plays A6s, a suited hand. One of the other hand's cards outranks the pair and one is below it, which makes this a closer race than a pair against two small cards.
88 is well ahead, and A6s needs a specific kind of board to catch up. Of every 100 boards, about 0.38 are split pots, and the equity figures already include them.
Among the 169 starting hands, 88 is number 7 and A6s is number 31 by strength against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | 27,677,000 | 155,000 | 13,264,000 |
| A6s | 13,264,000 | 155,000 | 27,677,000 |
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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | 2.080 | 1.485 | 3.098 | 0.481 |
| A6s | 0.481 | 3.098 | 1.485 | 2.080 |
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
The flop changes the picture. 88 does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 80.25%, and worst on monotone flops, at 63.32%. 88 stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.
| Flop | Share of flops | 88 wins | Ties | A6s wins | 88 equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 66.883 | 0.165 | 32.952 | 66.965 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 79.920 | 0.652 | 19.428 | 80.246 |
| Two-tone | 46.545 | 65.997 | 0.237 | 33.766 | 66.116 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 62.136 | 2.358 | 35.506 | 63.315 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 69.092 | 0.374 | 30.534 | 69.279 |
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 -1.62 points (baseline 69.16%) and A6s by -27.45 points (baseline 59.91%).
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88, all flops | 67.536 | 69.163 | -1.627 | 0.97648 |
| 88, rainbow, ten or higher | 66.965 | 69.163 | -2.198 | 0.96822 |
| 88, rainbow, nine or lower | 80.246 | 69.163 | +11.083 | 1.16024 |
| 88, two-tone | 66.116 | 69.163 | -3.047 | 0.95594 |
| 88, monotone | 63.315 | 69.163 | -5.848 | 0.91545 |
| 88, paired | 69.279 | 69.163 | +0.116 | 1.00168 |
| A6s, all flops | 32.464 | 59.906 | -27.442 | 0.54192 |
| A6s, rainbow, ten or higher | 33.035 | 59.906 | -26.871 | 0.55145 |
| A6s, rainbow, nine or lower | 19.754 | 59.906 | -40.152 | 0.32975 |
| A6s, two-tone | 33.884 | 59.906 | -26.022 | 0.56562 |
| A6s, monotone | 36.685 | 59.906 | -23.221 | 0.61238 |
| A6s, paired | 30.721 | 59.906 | -29.185 | 0.51282 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Of the deals of this matchup, 12 share a suit (88 at 67.82%) and 12 do not (67.25%). 88 does better with a shared suit, by 0.57 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 88 wins | Ties | A6s wins | 88 equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 67.614 | 0.420 | 31.966 | 67.824 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 67.082 | 0.333 | 32.585 | 67.248 |
How often this matchup comes up
How often does it happen? 24 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0015%) are 88 against A6s, and 48 (0.0030%) if either hand may sit in either seat.
A worked example
To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. 88 is worth $135.08 on average (+$35.08); A6s is worth $64.92 (-$35.08).
Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 673 wins for 88, 323 for A6s and 4 chopped pots.
The same matchup from the other side
A6s against 88 adds nothing new: it is 32.46% for A6s and 67.54% for 88, the same figures reversed.
Keep exploring
Try 8s8h against Ad6d 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.
How this was computed
This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 24 ways to deal one 88 and one A6s without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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