--- title: "AQs vs T8s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-t8s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-t8s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQs is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 63.02% to 36.98% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-t9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-98s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-t8s.md"] --- # AQs vs T8s: preflop equity AQs is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 63.02% to 36.98% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 63.02% for AQs and 36.98% for T8s, so AQs leads by 26.04 points. ## AQs against T8s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQs against T8s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 62.778 | 0.478 | 36.744 | 63.017 | | T8s | 36.744 | 0.478 | 62.778 | 36.983 | The matchup is suited hands on both sides, AQs against T8s. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. 0.48% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, AQs is number 10 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 17,199,000 | 131,000 | 10,067,000 | | T8s | 10,067,000 | 131,000 | 17,199,000 | Exact total: 16 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. **AQs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 1.704 | 1.593 | 2.722 | 0.587 | | T8s | 0.587 | 2.722 | 1.593 | 1.704 | 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 If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: AQs holds 66.40% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and 52.63% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). AQs stays ahead on all five textures. **AQs against T8s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQs wins | Ties | T8s wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 66.324 | 0.141 | 33.535 | 66.395 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 52.297 | 0.674 | 47.029 | 52.634 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.190 | 0.237 | 37.573 | 62.309 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.407 | 3.399 | 38.194 | 60.106 | | Paired | 17.091 | 65.099 | 0.624 | 34.277 | 65.411 | A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Against one random hand instead, AQs holds 66.21% and T8s holds 52.33%. Facing each other changes that by -3.19 points for AQs and -15.35 points for T8s. **AQs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs, all flops | 63.017 | 66.209 | -3.192 | 0.95179 | | AQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 66.395 | 66.209 | +0.186 | 1.00281 | | AQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 52.634 | 66.209 | -13.575 | 0.79497 | | AQs, two-tone | 62.309 | 66.209 | -3.900 | 0.94110 | | AQs, monotone | 60.106 | 66.209 | -6.103 | 0.90782 | | AQs, paired | 65.411 | 66.209 | -0.798 | 0.98795 | | T8s, all flops | 36.983 | 52.334 | -15.351 | 0.70667 | | T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 33.605 | 52.334 | -18.729 | 0.64213 | | T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 47.366 | 52.334 | -4.968 | 0.90507 | | T8s, two-tone | 37.691 | 52.334 | -14.643 | 0.72020 | | T8s, monotone | 39.894 | 52.334 | -12.440 | 0.76230 | | T8s, paired | 34.589 | 52.334 | -17.745 | 0.66093 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 65.36% for AQs with a shared suit and 62.24% without one. AQs does better with a shared suit, by 3.12 points. **AQs against T8s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQs wins | Ties | T8s wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.085 | 0.553 | 34.362 | 65.362 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.009 | 0.452 | 37.539 | 62.235 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 16 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0010% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 32, or 0.0020%. ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. AQs is worth $126.04 on average (+$26.04); T8s is worth $73.96 (-$26.04). A thousand deals look like this: AQs takes 628, T8s takes 367, 5 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side T8s versus AQs is this same page seen from the other hand: 36.98% for T8s, 63.02% for AQs. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in AsQs against Th8h, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength. - [Open AsQs against Th8h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQs&p2=Th8h) - [AQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqs.md) - [T8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t8s.md) - [AQs vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-t9o.md) - [AQs vs 98s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-98s.md) - [AJs vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-t8s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 16 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AQs vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-t9o.md) - [AQs vs 98s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-98s.md) - [AJs vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-t8s.md)