88
53.71%
Wins 53.46%, ties 0.49%
T9o
46.29%
Wins 46.05%, ties 0.49%
88 against T9o: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | 53.464 | 0.494 | 46.042 | 53.711 |
| T9o | 46.042 | 0.494 | 53.464 | 46.289 |
88 is a pocket pair and T9o is an offsuit hand. One hand holds a pair and the other holds two cards that both outrank it, which keeps the equity closer than most people expect.
88 leads by less than 8 points of equity, so the result of any one deal is close to a toss-up. Ties are part of the picture: 0.49% 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 T9o ranks number 78, by equity against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | 65,914,000 | 609,000 | 56,763,000 |
| T9o | 56,763,000 | 609,000 | 65,914,000 |
Exact total: 72 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 | 1.160 | 1.870 | 2.172 | 0.862 |
| T9o | 0.862 | 2.172 | 1.870 | 1.160 |
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 10.65 points, from 50.07% on monotone flops to 60.72% on paired flops. 88 stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | 88 wins | Ties | T9o wins | 88 equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.341 | 50.691 | 0.300 | 49.009 | 50.841 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 59.921 | 0.607 | 39.472 | 60.224 |
| Two-tone | 46.485 | 52.098 | 0.344 | 47.558 | 52.270 |
| Monotone | 5.151 | 49.203 | 1.739 | 49.058 | 50.072 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 60.329 | 0.775 | 38.896 | 60.716 |
Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank.
Compared with a random hand
A random hand would give 88 69.16% and T9o 51.53%. Against each other the change is -15.45 points for 88 and -5.24 for T9o.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88, all flops | 53.711 | 69.163 | -15.452 | 0.77659 |
| 88, rainbow, ten or higher | 50.841 | 69.163 | -18.322 | 0.73509 |
| 88, rainbow, nine or lower | 60.224 | 69.163 | -8.939 | 0.87075 |
| 88, two-tone | 52.270 | 69.163 | -16.893 | 0.75575 |
| 88, monotone | 50.072 | 69.163 | -19.091 | 0.72397 |
| 88, paired | 60.716 | 69.163 | -8.447 | 0.87787 |
| T9o, all flops | 46.289 | 51.532 | -5.243 | 0.89826 |
| T9o, rainbow, ten or higher | 49.159 | 51.532 | -2.373 | 0.95395 |
| T9o, rainbow, nine or lower | 39.776 | 51.532 | -11.756 | 0.77187 |
| T9o, two-tone | 47.730 | 51.532 | -3.802 | 0.92622 |
| T9o, monotone | 49.928 | 51.532 | -1.604 | 0.96887 |
| T9o, paired | 39.284 | 51.532 | -12.248 | 0.76232 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Of the deals of this matchup, 60 share a suit (88 at 53.62%) and 12 do not (54.17%). 88 does better with no shared suit, by 0.55 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 88 wins | Ties | T9o wins | 88 equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 60 | 83.33 | 53.365 | 0.510 | 46.125 | 53.620 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 16.67 | 53.960 | 0.416 | 45.624 | 54.168 |
How often this matchup comes up
Exactly 72 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0044% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 144, or 0.0089%.
A worked example
With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $107.42 for 88 and $92.58 for T9o; the first side gains $7.42 per all-in and the second gives up $7.42.
A thousand deals look like this: 88 takes 535, T9o takes 460, 5 are ties.
The same matchup from the other side
If you came looking for T9o against 88, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 46.29% and 53.71%.
Keep exploring
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How this was computed
The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 72 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.
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