88
52.82%
Wins 52.60%, ties 0.43%
JTo
47.18%
Wins 46.97%, ties 0.43%
88 against JTo: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | 52.601 | 0.432 | 46.967 | 52.817 |
| JTo | 46.967 | 0.432 | 52.601 | 47.183 |
88 and JTo are a pocket pair and an offsuit hand, in that order. This is a pair against two overcards, a matchup that stays close because the other hand only needs one of its ranks to appear.
This is close to even money, with 88 a little ahead. The tie share is 0.43%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright.
88 ranks number 7 of 169 starting hands, and JTo ranks number 57, by equity against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | 64,850,000 | 533,000 | 57,904,000 |
| JTo | 57,904,000 | 533,000 | 64,850,000 |
72 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | 1.119 | 1.901 | 2.129 | 0.893 |
| JTo | 0.893 | 2.129 | 1.901 | 1.119 |
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 32.03 points, from 45.14% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better to 77.17% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). The lead reverses on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and monotone flops: there JTo is the favorite even though 88 is ahead overall.
| Flop | Share of flops | 88 wins | Ties | JTo wins | 88 equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 45.023 | 0.238 | 54.739 | 45.142 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 76.831 | 0.685 | 22.484 | 77.173 |
| Two-tone | 46.485 | 51.252 | 0.316 | 48.432 | 51.410 |
| Monotone | 5.151 | 48.645 | 1.711 | 49.644 | 49.501 |
| Paired | 17.333 | 59.378 | 0.544 | 40.078 | 59.650 |
Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank.
Compared with a random hand
Start from the random-hand figures, 69.16% for 88 and 55.25% for JTo. This opponent changes them by -16.34 and -8.07 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88, all flops | 52.817 | 69.163 | -16.346 | 0.76366 |
| 88, rainbow, ten or higher | 45.142 | 69.163 | -24.021 | 0.65269 |
| 88, rainbow, nine or lower | 77.173 | 69.163 | +8.010 | 1.11581 |
| 88, two-tone | 51.410 | 69.163 | -17.753 | 0.74332 |
| 88, monotone | 49.501 | 69.163 | -19.662 | 0.71572 |
| 88, paired | 59.650 | 69.163 | -9.513 | 0.86246 |
| JTo, all flops | 47.183 | 55.248 | -8.065 | 0.85402 |
| JTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 54.858 | 55.248 | -0.390 | 0.99294 |
| JTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 22.827 | 55.248 | -32.421 | 0.41317 |
| JTo, two-tone | 48.590 | 55.248 | -6.658 | 0.87949 |
| JTo, monotone | 50.499 | 55.248 | -4.749 | 0.91404 |
| JTo, paired | 40.350 | 55.248 | -14.898 | 0.73034 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, 88 has 52.73%; looking only at deals where they do not, 53.28%. 88 does better with no shared suit, by 0.55 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 88 wins | Ties | JTo wins | 88 equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 60 | 83.33 | 52.502 | 0.447 | 47.051 | 52.725 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 16.67 | 53.100 | 0.353 | 46.547 | 53.277 |
How often this matchup comes up
Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 72 are 88 in one seat and JTo in the other (0.0044%); with the seats swapped too, 144 (0.0089%).
A worked example
Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, 88's average share is $105.64 (a gain of $5.64) and JTo's is $94.36 (a loss of $5.64).
Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 526 wins for 88, 470 for JTo and 4 chopped pots.
The same matchup from the other side
Read it from the other side: JTo against 88 is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so JTo holds 47.18% and 88 holds 52.82%. That address sends you back to this page.
Keep exploring
The calculator link fills in 8s8h against JdTc, 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.
How this was computed
The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 72 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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