A2s
55.44%
Wins 55.19%, ties 0.51%
T8s
44.56%
Wins 44.30%, ties 0.51%
A2s against T8s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A2s | 55.185 | 0.508 | 44.307 | 55.439 |
| T8s | 44.307 | 0.508 | 55.185 | 44.561 |
This is a contest between two suited hands, A2s and T8s. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other.
A2s is ahead, but T8s is far from dead: it takes 443 of every 1,000 deals outright. Split pots make up 0.51% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each.
Among the 169 starting hands, A2s is number 46 and T8s is number 73 by strength against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| A2s | 15,119,000 | 139,000 | 12,139,000 |
| T8s | 12,139,000 | 139,000 | 15,119,000 |
16 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A2s | 1.244 | 1.812 | 2.257 | 0.804 |
| T8s | 0.804 | 2.257 | 1.812 | 1.244 |
The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call.
Who is ahead on which flops
Break the boards down by their first three cards and A2s is strongest on paired flops (61.27%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (50.08%). A2s stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | A2s wins | Ties | T8s wins | A2s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.543 | 55.454 | 0.193 | 44.353 | 55.551 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.366 | 49.752 | 0.663 | 49.585 | 50.083 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 54.079 | 0.265 | 45.656 | 54.212 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 51.652 | 3.429 | 44.919 | 53.366 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 60.933 | 0.665 | 38.402 | 61.266 |
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
The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of -1.94 points for A2s, from 57.38%, and -7.77 for T8s, from 52.33%.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A2s, all flops | 55.439 | 57.379 | -1.940 | 0.96619 |
| A2s, rainbow, ten or higher | 55.551 | 57.379 | -1.828 | 0.96814 |
| A2s, rainbow, nine or lower | 50.083 | 57.379 | -7.296 | 0.87285 |
| A2s, two-tone | 54.212 | 57.379 | -3.167 | 0.94481 |
| A2s, monotone | 53.366 | 57.379 | -4.013 | 0.93006 |
| A2s, paired | 61.266 | 57.379 | +3.887 | 1.06774 |
| T8s, all flops | 44.561 | 52.334 | -7.773 | 0.85147 |
| T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 44.449 | 52.334 | -7.885 | 0.84933 |
| T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 49.917 | 52.334 | -2.417 | 0.95382 |
| T8s, two-tone | 45.788 | 52.334 | -6.546 | 0.87492 |
| T8s, monotone | 46.634 | 52.334 | -5.700 | 0.89108 |
| T8s, paired | 38.734 | 52.334 | -13.600 | 0.74013 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common A2s has 57.11% equity, and with none in common it has 54.88%. A2s does better with a shared suit, by 2.23 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A2s wins | Ties | T8s wins | A2s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 56.818 | 0.589 | 42.593 | 57.113 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 54.640 | 0.481 | 44.879 | 54.881 |
How often this matchup comes up
Exactly 16 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0010% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 32, or 0.0020%.
A worked example
To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. A2s is worth $110.88 on average (+$10.88); T8s is worth $89.12 (-$10.88).
Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 552 for A2s, 443 for T8s and 5 tied.
The same matchup from the other side
One page covers both views. From T8s' side the equity is 44.56%, and from A2s' side it is 55.44%.
Keep exploring
Open the calculator with As2s against Th8h already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking.
How this was computed
The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 16 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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