--- title: "88 vs QTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-qto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-qto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, 88 or QTo? 88 leads 53.57% to 46.43% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-44.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-j9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-qto.md"] --- # 88 vs QTo: preflop equity Who is ahead, 88 or QTo? 88 leads 53.57% to 46.43% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, 88 is ahead of QTo by 7.14 points of equity, 53.57% to 46.43%. ## 88 against QTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for 88 against QTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 88 | 53.367 | 0.413 | 46.220 | 53.574 | | QTo | 46.220 | 0.413 | 53.367 | 46.426 | 88, a pocket pair, plays QTo, an offsuit hand. This is a pair against two overcards, a matchup that stays close because the other hand only needs one of its ranks to appear. With only 7.14 points between them, the board decides this matchup far more than the cards in hand. Ties are part of the picture: 0.41% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. 88 ranks number 7 of 169 starting hands, and QTo ranks number 47, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 123,285,888 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 88 | 65,794,000 | 509,000 | 56,983,000 | | QTo | 56,983,000 | 509,000 | 65,794,000 | 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. **88 against QTo 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 | 1.154 | 1.874 | 2.164 | 0.867 | | QTo | 0.867 | 2.164 | 1.874 | 1.154 | The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: 88 holds 79.36% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and 45.76% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. Watch for rainbow flops topped by a ten or better: on those flops QTo holds the better equity. **88 against QTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | 88 wins | Ties | QTo wins | 88 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 45.652 | 0.223 | 54.125 | 45.764 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 78.999 | 0.728 | 20.273 | 79.363 | | Two-tone | 46.485 | 52.168 | 0.313 | 47.519 | 52.325 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 49.354 | 1.706 | 48.940 | 50.207 | | Paired | 17.333 | 59.440 | 0.455 | 40.105 | 59.667 | Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts 88 from 69.16% by -15.59 points and QTo from 57.29% by -10.86 points. **88 and QTo 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 | 53.574 | 69.163 | -15.589 | 0.77460 | | 88, rainbow, ten or higher | 45.764 | 69.163 | -23.399 | 0.66168 | | 88, rainbow, nine or lower | 79.363 | 69.163 | +10.200 | 1.14748 | | 88, two-tone | 52.325 | 69.163 | -16.838 | 0.75655 | | 88, monotone | 50.207 | 69.163 | -18.956 | 0.72592 | | 88, paired | 59.667 | 69.163 | -9.496 | 0.86270 | | QTo, all flops | 46.426 | 57.291 | -10.865 | 0.81035 | | QTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 54.236 | 57.291 | -3.055 | 0.94668 | | QTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 20.637 | 57.291 | -36.654 | 0.36021 | | QTo, two-tone | 47.675 | 57.291 | -9.616 | 0.83216 | | QTo, monotone | 49.793 | 57.291 | -7.498 | 0.86912 | | QTo, paired | 40.333 | 57.291 | -16.958 | 0.70400 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, 88 holds 53.49%; when they do not, it holds 54.02%. 88 does better with no shared suit, by 0.53 points. **88 against QTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 88 wins | Ties | QTo wins | 88 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 60 | 83.33 | 53.271 | 0.429 | 46.300 | 53.486 | | No shared suit | 12 | 16.67 | 53.848 | 0.334 | 45.818 | 54.015 | ## 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 QTo in the other (0.0044%); with the seats swapped too, 144 (0.0089%). ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. 88 averages $107.14 from the $200, up $7.14; QTo averages $92.86, down $7.14. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 534 wins for 88, 462 for QTo and 4 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: QTo against 88 is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so QTo holds 46.43% and 88 holds 53.57%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Try 8s8h against QdTc 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. - [Open 8s8h against QdTc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=8s8h&p2=QdTc) - [88 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/88.md) - [QTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qto.md) - [88 vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-44.md) - [88 vs J9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-j9s.md) - [AKs vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-qto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 72 specific deals of 88 against QTo, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [88 vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-44.md) - [88 vs J9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-j9s.md) - [AKs vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-qto.md)