--- title: "A8s vs QTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-qto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-qto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, A8s or QTo? A8s leads 58.86% to 41.14% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-44.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-j9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-qto.md"] --- # A8s vs QTo: preflop equity Who is ahead, A8s or QTo? A8s leads 58.86% to 41.14% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, A8s against QTo stands at 58.86% to 41.14%, a gap of 17.72 points. ## A8s against QTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for A8s against QTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A8s | 58.645 | 0.433 | 40.922 | 58.862 | | QTo | 40.922 | 0.433 | 58.645 | 41.138 | We compare a suited hand with an offsuit hand. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. A8s is ahead, but QTo is far from dead: it takes 409 of every 1,000 deals outright. Split pots make up 0.43% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. Among the 169 starting hands, A8s is number 21 and QTo is number 47 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A8s | 48,201,000 | 356,000 | 33,634,000 | | QTo | 33,634,000 | 356,000 | 48,201,000 | Exact total: 48 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. **A8s 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A8s | 1.431 | 1.705 | 2.444 | 0.699 | | QTo | 0.699 | 2.444 | 1.705 | 1.431 | 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 By flop texture, A8s' equity runs from 51.51% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better up to 74.96% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). A8s stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **A8s against QTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | A8s wins | Ties | QTo wins | A8s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 51.433 | 0.149 | 48.418 | 51.508 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 74.611 | 0.701 | 24.688 | 74.961 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 58.331 | 0.253 | 41.416 | 58.458 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 54.478 | 2.358 | 43.164 | 55.657 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.319 | 0.624 | 35.057 | 64.631 | 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 Against one random hand instead, A8s holds 61.94% and QTo holds 57.29%. Facing each other changes that by -3.08 points for A8s and -16.15 points for QTo. **A8s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A8s, all flops | 58.862 | 61.944 | -3.082 | 0.95025 | | A8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 51.508 | 61.944 | -10.436 | 0.83153 | | A8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 74.961 | 61.944 | +13.017 | 1.21014 | | A8s, two-tone | 58.458 | 61.944 | -3.486 | 0.94372 | | A8s, monotone | 55.657 | 61.944 | -6.287 | 0.89851 | | A8s, paired | 64.631 | 61.944 | +2.687 | 1.04338 | | QTo, all flops | 41.138 | 57.291 | -16.153 | 0.71805 | | QTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 48.492 | 57.291 | -8.799 | 0.84642 | | QTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 25.039 | 57.291 | -32.252 | 0.43705 | | QTo, two-tone | 41.542 | 57.291 | -15.749 | 0.72511 | | QTo, monotone | 44.343 | 57.291 | -12.948 | 0.77400 | | QTo, paired | 35.369 | 57.291 | -21.922 | 0.61736 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 24 share a suit (A8s at 58.52%) and 24 do not (59.20%). A8s does better with no shared suit, by 0.68 points. **A8s against QTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A8s wins | Ties | QTo wins | A8s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 58.286 | 0.474 | 41.240 | 58.523 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.004 | 0.392 | 40.604 | 59.200 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 48 specific-card matchups (0.0030% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 96 once you count the seats both ways (0.0059%). ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average A8s takes back $117.72 of it, which is $17.72 more than it put in, and QTo takes back $82.28, $17.72 less than it put in. Think in thousands: about 587 of 1,000 go to A8s, about 409 go to QTo, and about 4 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, QTo against A8s, shows 41.14% for QTo and 58.86% for A8s. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring As8s against QhTd 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 As8s against QhTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=As8s&p2=QhTd) - [A8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a8s.md) - [QTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qto.md) - [A8s vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-44.md) - [A8s vs J9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-j9s.md) - [KTs vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-qto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 48 deals of A8s against QTo fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [A8s vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-44.md) - [A8s vs J9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-j9s.md) - [KTs vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-qto.md)