A8s
56.19%
Wins 55.95%, ties 0.49%
QJs
43.81%
Wins 43.56%, ties 0.49%
A8s against QJs: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A8s | 55.950 | 0.486 | 43.564 | 56.193 |
| QJs | 43.564 | 0.486 | 55.950 | 43.807 |
A8s meets QJs, and both are suited hands. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances.
A8s is ahead, but QJs is far from dead: it takes 436 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 0.49% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that.
Among the 169 starting hands, A8s is number 21 and QJs is number 28 by strength against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| A8s | 15,329,000 | 133,000 | 11,935,000 |
| QJs | 11,935,000 | 133,000 | 15,329,000 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A8s | 1.283 | 1.787 | 2.295 | 0.780 |
| QJs | 0.780 | 2.295 | 1.787 | 1.283 |
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
Split by what the flop looks like, A8s peaks at 73.35% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 50.07% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. A8s stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.
| Flop | Share of flops | A8s wins | Ties | QJs wins | A8s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 50.011 | 0.113 | 49.876 | 50.067 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 72.932 | 0.830 | 26.238 | 73.347 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 54.850 | 0.246 | 44.904 | 54.973 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 52.079 | 3.402 | 44.519 | 53.780 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 61.450 | 0.620 | 37.930 | 61.760 |
A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank.
Compared with a random hand
Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts A8s from 61.94% by -5.75 points and QJs from 60.26% by -16.45 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A8s, all flops | 56.193 | 61.944 | -5.751 | 0.90716 |
| A8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 50.067 | 61.944 | -11.877 | 0.80826 |
| A8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 73.347 | 61.944 | +11.403 | 1.18409 |
| A8s, two-tone | 54.973 | 61.944 | -6.971 | 0.88746 |
| A8s, monotone | 53.780 | 61.944 | -8.164 | 0.86820 |
| A8s, paired | 61.760 | 61.944 | -0.184 | 0.99703 |
| QJs, all flops | 43.807 | 60.259 | -16.452 | 0.72698 |
| QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 49.933 | 60.259 | -10.326 | 0.82864 |
| QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 26.653 | 60.259 | -33.606 | 0.44231 |
| QJs, two-tone | 45.027 | 60.259 | -15.232 | 0.74722 |
| QJs, monotone | 46.220 | 60.259 | -14.039 | 0.76702 |
| QJs, paired | 38.240 | 60.259 | -22.019 | 0.63459 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Of the deals of this matchup, 4 share a suit (A8s at 58.01%) and 12 do not (55.59%). A8s does better with a shared suit, by 2.42 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A8s wins | Ties | QJs wins | A8s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 57.728 | 0.562 | 41.710 | 58.009 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 55.358 | 0.460 | 44.182 | 55.588 |
How often this matchup comes up
Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 16 are A8s in one seat and QJs in the other (0.0010%); with the seats swapped too, 32 (0.0020%).
A worked example
Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, A8s' average share is $112.38 (a gain of $12.38) and QJs' is $87.62 (a loss of $12.38).
Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 559 wins for A8s, 436 for QJs and 5 chopped pots.
The same matchup from the other side
QJs versus A8s is this same page seen from the other hand: 43.81% for QJs, 56.19% for A8s.
Keep exploring
Try As8s against QhJh 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.
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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