--- title: "88 vs T9o: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-t9o.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-t9o" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, 88 or T9o? 88 leads 53.71% to 46.29% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-98s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-22.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-t9o.md"] --- # 88 vs T9o: preflop equity Who is ahead, 88 or T9o? 88 leads 53.71% to 46.29% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, 88 finishes with 53.71% of the pot and T9o with 46.29%. ## 88 against T9o: the numbers **Exact preflop results for 88 against T9o, in percent** | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 123,285,888 counted in all** | 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. **88 against T9o 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 | 1.160 | 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. **88 against T9o by flop texture, in percent** | 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. **88 and T9o 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 | 53.711 | 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. **88 against T9o by suit overlap, in percent** | 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 8s8h against Td9c 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. - [Open 8s8h against Td9c in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=8s8h&p2=Td9c) - [88 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/88.md) - [T9o combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t9o.md) - [88 vs 98s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-98s.md) - [88 vs 22](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-22.md) - [AKs vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-t9o.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## 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. ## Related - [88 vs 98s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-98s.md) - [88 vs 22: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-22.md) - [AKs vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-t9o.md)