--- title: "AJo vs T8s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-t8s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-t8s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AJo is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 60.77% to 39.23% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-t9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-98s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-t8s.md"] --- # AJo vs T8s: preflop equity AJo is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 60.77% to 39.23% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Before any board card is dealt, AJo holds 60.77% equity against T8s, which leaves T8s with 39.23%. ## AJo against T8s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AJo against T8s, in percent** | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | 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. **AJo against T8s read as odds** | 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. **AJo against T8s by flop texture, in percent** | 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. **AJo and T8s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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. **AJo against T8s by suit overlap, in percent** | 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. - [Open AsJh against Td8d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsJh&p2=Td8d) - [AJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ajo.md) - [T8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t8s.md) - [AJo vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-t9o.md) - [AJo vs 98s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-98s.md) - [KQs vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-t8s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## 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. ## Related - [AJo vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-t9o.md) - [AJo vs 98s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-98s.md) - [KQs vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-t8s.md)