AJo
60.77%
Wins 60.56%, ties 0.43%
T8s
39.23%
Wins 39.01%, ties 0.43%
AJo against T8s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AJo | 60.555 | 0.425 | 39.020 | 60.768 |
| T8s | 39.020 | 0.425 | 60.555 | 39.232 |
The matchup pits an offsuit hand against a suited hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other.
The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. The tie share is 0.43%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright.
Among the 169 starting hands, AJo is number 15 and T8s is number 73 by strength against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| AJo | 49,771,000 | 349,000 | 32,071,000 |
| T8s | 32,071,000 | 349,000 | 49,771,000 |
48 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AJo | 1.549 | 1.651 | 2.563 | 0.646 |
| T8s | 0.646 | 2.563 | 1.651 | 1.549 |
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 AJo is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (65.25%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (50.80%). AJo stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | AJo wins | Ties | T8s wins | AJo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 65.179 | 0.151 | 34.670 | 65.254 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 50.481 | 0.641 | 48.878 | 50.801 |
| Two-tone | 46.667 | 59.037 | 0.244 | 40.719 | 59.159 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 57.680 | 2.356 | 39.964 | 58.858 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 63.238 | 0.628 | 36.134 | 63.552 |
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
How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 63.56%, AJo changes by -2.79 points, and T8s, from 52.33%, by -13.10.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AJo, all flops | 60.768 | 63.563 | -2.795 | 0.95603 |
| AJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 65.254 | 63.563 | +1.691 | 1.02660 |
| AJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 50.801 | 63.563 | -12.762 | 0.79922 |
| AJo, two-tone | 59.159 | 63.563 | -4.404 | 0.93071 |
| AJo, monotone | 58.858 | 63.563 | -4.705 | 0.92598 |
| AJo, paired | 63.552 | 63.563 | -0.011 | 0.99983 |
| T8s, all flops | 39.232 | 52.334 | -13.102 | 0.74965 |
| T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 34.746 | 52.334 | -17.588 | 0.66393 |
| T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 49.199 | 52.334 | -3.135 | 0.94010 |
| T8s, two-tone | 40.841 | 52.334 | -11.493 | 0.78039 |
| T8s, monotone | 41.142 | 52.334 | -11.192 | 0.78614 |
| T8s, paired | 36.448 | 52.334 | -15.886 | 0.69645 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Two kinds of deal exist here. In 24 of them the hands share a suit and AJo holds 61.45%. In 24 they do not, and it holds 60.09%. AJo does better with a shared suit, by 1.36 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AJo wins | Ties | T8s wins | AJo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 61.216 | 0.466 | 38.318 | 61.449 |
| No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.894 | 0.385 | 39.721 | 60.087 |
How often this matchup comes up
AJo against T8s is made up of 48 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0030% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 96 counting both seat orders, 0.0059%.
A worked example
Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, AJo's average share is $121.54 (a gain of $21.54) and T8s' is $78.46 (a loss of $21.54).
Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 606 for AJo, 390 for T8s and 4 ties.
The same matchup from the other side
One page covers both views. From T8s' side the equity is 39.23%, and from AJo's side it is 60.77%.
Keep exploring
Open the calculator with AsJh against Td8d 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
This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 48 ways to deal one AJo and one T8s without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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