88
65.95%
Wins 64.67%, ties 2.56%
A8s
34.05%
Wins 32.77%, ties 2.56%
88 against A8s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | 64.670 | 2.555 | 32.775 | 65.947 |
| A8s | 32.775 | 2.555 | 64.670 | 34.053 |
One side is a pocket pair, the other is a suited hand. The non-pair hand shares a rank with the pair, so two of its outs for pairing are blocked by the pair itself.
88 is well ahead, and A8s needs a specific kind of board to catch up. Ties are 2.56% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot.
The hand ranking puts 88 at 7 and A8s at 21 out of 169 starting hands.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | 13,288,000 | 525,000 | 6,734,000 |
| A8s | 6,734,000 | 525,000 | 13,288,000 |
Exact total: 12 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | 1.937 | 1.546 | 3.051 | 0.516 |
| A8s | 0.516 | 3.051 | 1.546 | 1.937 |
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
If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: 88 holds 81.22% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and 61.60% on monotone flops. 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 | A8s wins | 88 equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.197 | 63.098 | 2.377 | 34.525 | 64.287 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.585 | 78.312 | 5.810 | 15.878 | 81.217 |
| Two-tone | 46.236 | 62.540 | 2.687 | 34.773 | 63.883 |
| Monotone | 5.151 | 60.007 | 3.186 | 36.807 | 61.600 |
| Paired | 17.831 | 69.486 | 1.265 | 29.249 | 70.118 |
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 -3.21 points (baseline 69.16%) and A8s by -27.89 points (baseline 61.94%).
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88, all flops | 65.947 | 69.163 | -3.216 | 0.95350 |
| 88, rainbow, ten or higher | 64.287 | 69.163 | -4.876 | 0.92950 |
| 88, rainbow, nine or lower | 81.217 | 69.163 | +12.054 | 1.17428 |
| 88, two-tone | 63.883 | 69.163 | -5.280 | 0.92366 |
| 88, monotone | 61.600 | 69.163 | -7.563 | 0.89065 |
| 88, paired | 70.118 | 69.163 | +0.955 | 1.01381 |
| A8s, all flops | 34.053 | 61.944 | -27.891 | 0.54974 |
| A8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 35.713 | 61.944 | -26.231 | 0.57654 |
| A8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 18.783 | 61.944 | -43.161 | 0.30323 |
| A8s, two-tone | 36.117 | 61.944 | -25.827 | 0.58306 |
| A8s, monotone | 38.400 | 61.944 | -23.544 | 0.61991 |
| A8s, paired | 29.882 | 61.944 | -32.062 | 0.48240 |
Does a shared suit matter?
These two classes cannot share a suit in any legal deal, so there is only one row to read: 88 holds 65.95% in every deal of this matchup.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 88 wins | Ties | A8s wins | 88 equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible |
| No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 64.670 | 2.555 | 32.775 | 65.947 |
How often this matchup comes up
Exactly 12 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0007% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 24, or 0.0015%.
A worked example
Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, 88's average share is $131.90 (a gain of $31.90) and A8s' is $68.10 (a loss of $31.90).
Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 647 for 88, 328 for A8s and 25 tied.
The same matchup from the other side
If you came looking for A8s against 88, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 34.05% and 65.95%.
Keep exploring
8s8h against Ad8d is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength.
How this was computed
Nothing here is simulated. The 12 deals of 88 against A8s fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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