--- title: "AKs vs T8s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-t8s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-t8s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AKs is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 62.85% to 37.15% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-t9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-98s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-t8s.md"] --- # AKs vs T8s: preflop equity AKs is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 62.85% to 37.15% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 62.85% for AKs and 37.15% for T8s, so AKs leads by 25.70 points. ## AKs against T8s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AKs against T8s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 62.611 | 0.483 | 36.906 | 62.852 | | T8s | 36.906 | 0.483 | 62.611 | 37.148 | Both hands are suited hands: AKs and T8s. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. Ties are 0.48% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. Ranked by equity against a random hand, AKs is number 8 of the 169 starting hands and T8s is number 73. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 17,153,000 | 132,000 | 10,111,000 | | T8s | 10,111,000 | 132,000 | 17,153,000 | The board total is exact, 16 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **AKs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 1.692 | 1.597 | 2.710 | 0.591 | | T8s | 0.591 | 2.710 | 1.597 | 1.692 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, AKs peaks at 66.18% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and bottoms out at 52.56% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). AKs stays ahead on all five textures. **AKs against T8s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AKs wins | Ties | T8s wins | AKs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 66.102 | 0.147 | 33.751 | 66.176 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 52.213 | 0.692 | 47.095 | 52.559 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.061 | 0.244 | 37.695 | 62.183 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.395 | 3.404 | 38.201 | 60.097 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.824 | 0.620 | 34.556 | 65.134 | 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 Start from the random-hand figures, 67.05% for AKs and 52.33% for T8s. This opponent changes them by -4.20 and -15.18 points. **AKs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs, all flops | 62.852 | 67.045 | -4.193 | 0.93746 | | AKs, rainbow, ten or higher | 66.176 | 67.045 | -0.869 | 0.98704 | | AKs, rainbow, nine or lower | 52.559 | 67.045 | -14.486 | 0.78394 | | AKs, two-tone | 62.183 | 67.045 | -4.862 | 0.92748 | | AKs, monotone | 60.097 | 67.045 | -6.948 | 0.89637 | | AKs, paired | 65.134 | 67.045 | -1.911 | 0.97150 | | T8s, all flops | 37.148 | 52.334 | -15.186 | 0.70983 | | T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 33.824 | 52.334 | -18.510 | 0.64631 | | T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 47.441 | 52.334 | -4.893 | 0.90650 | | T8s, two-tone | 37.817 | 52.334 | -14.517 | 0.72261 | | T8s, monotone | 39.903 | 52.334 | -12.431 | 0.76247 | | T8s, paired | 34.866 | 52.334 | -17.468 | 0.66622 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 4 share a suit (AKs at 65.15%) and 12 do not (62.09%). AKs does better with a shared suit, by 3.06 points. **AKs against T8s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AKs wins | Ties | T8s wins | AKs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 64.865 | 0.561 | 34.574 | 65.146 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.859 | 0.457 | 37.684 | 62.088 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0010%) are AKs against T8s, and 32 (0.0020%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. AKs is worth $125.70 on average (+$25.70); T8s is worth $74.30 (-$25.70). Think in thousands: about 626 of 1,000 go to AKs, about 369 go to T8s, and about 5 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side T8s versus AKs is this same page seen from the other hand: 37.15% for T8s, 62.85% for AKs. ## Keep exploring Try AsKs against Th8h 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. - [Open AsKs against Th8h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsKs&p2=Th8h) - [AKs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aks.md) - [T8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t8s.md) - [AKs vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-t9o.md) - [AKs vs 98s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-98s.md) - [77 vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-t8s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 16 deals of AKs against T8s 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 - [AKs vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-t9o.md) - [AKs vs 98s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-98s.md) - [77 vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-t8s.md)