--- title: "AQo vs T8s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-t8s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-t8s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQo is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 60.53% to 39.47% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-t9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-98s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-t8s.md"] --- # AQo vs T8s: preflop equity AQo is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 60.53% to 39.47% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts AQo at 60.53% and T8s at 39.47% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## AQo against T8s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQo against T8s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 60.313 | 0.432 | 39.255 | 60.529 | | T8s | 39.255 | 0.432 | 60.313 | 39.471 | The matchup pits an offsuit hand against a suited hand. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. A 21.06 point lead is real, and T8s still takes about 393 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 0.43% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. The hand ranking puts AQo at 14 and T8s at 73 out of 169 starting hands. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 49,572,000 | 355,000 | 32,264,000 | | T8s | 32,264,000 | 355,000 | 49,572,000 | 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. **AQo 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 1.534 | 1.658 | 2.547 | 0.652 | | T8s | 0.652 | 2.547 | 1.658 | 1.534 | In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Across the five flop textures AQo's equity moves by 14.56 points, from 50.48% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 65.04% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. AQo stays ahead on all five textures. **AQo against T8s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQo wins | Ties | T8s wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 64.971 | 0.146 | 34.883 | 65.044 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 50.130 | 0.699 | 49.171 | 50.479 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 58.808 | 0.253 | 40.939 | 58.935 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 57.526 | 2.363 | 40.111 | 58.708 | | Paired | 17.091 | 62.930 | 0.624 | 36.446 | 63.242 | 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 How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 64.43%, AQo changes by -3.90 points, and T8s, from 52.33%, by -12.86. **AQo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo, all flops | 60.529 | 64.432 | -3.903 | 0.93942 | | AQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 65.044 | 64.432 | +0.612 | 1.00950 | | AQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 50.479 | 64.432 | -13.953 | 0.78345 | | AQo, two-tone | 58.935 | 64.432 | -5.497 | 0.91469 | | AQo, monotone | 58.708 | 64.432 | -5.724 | 0.91116 | | AQo, paired | 63.242 | 64.432 | -1.190 | 0.98153 | | T8s, all flops | 39.471 | 52.334 | -12.863 | 0.75421 | | T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 34.956 | 52.334 | -17.378 | 0.66794 | | T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 49.521 | 52.334 | -2.813 | 0.94625 | | T8s, two-tone | 41.065 | 52.334 | -11.269 | 0.78467 | | T8s, monotone | 41.292 | 52.334 | -11.042 | 0.78901 | | T8s, paired | 36.758 | 52.334 | -15.576 | 0.70237 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? AQo has 61.22% when the hands share a suit and 59.84% when they do not. AQo does better with a shared suit, by 1.38 points. **AQo against T8s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQo wins | Ties | T8s wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 60.987 | 0.473 | 38.540 | 61.223 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.639 | 0.391 | 39.970 | 59.835 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 48 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0030%) are AQo against T8s, and 96 (0.0059%) 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. AQo is worth $121.06 on average (+$21.06); T8s is worth $78.94 (-$21.06). Think in thousands: about 603 of 1,000 go to AQo, about 393 go to T8s, and about 4 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side T8s versus AQo is this same page seen from the other hand: 39.47% for T8s, 60.53% for AQo. ## Keep exploring Try AsQh against Td8d 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 AsQh against Td8d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQh&p2=Td8d) - [AQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqo.md) - [T8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t8s.md) - [AQo vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-t9o.md) - [AQo vs 98s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-98s.md) - [AJo vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-t8s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 48 deals of AQo 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 - [AQo vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-t9o.md) - [AQo vs 98s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-98s.md) - [AJo vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-t8s.md)