KJo
61.80%
Wins 61.47%, ties 0.66%
T8s
38.20%
Wins 37.87%, ties 0.66%
KJo against T8s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJo | 61.474 | 0.661 | 37.865 | 61.804 |
| T8s | 37.865 | 0.661 | 61.474 | 38.196 |
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.
That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. Ties are 0.66% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot.
The hand ranking puts KJo at 26 and T8s at 73 out of 169 starting hands.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| KJo | 50,526,000 | 543,000 | 31,121,000 |
| T8s | 31,121,000 | 543,000 | 50,526,000 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJo | 1.618 | 1.627 | 2.641 | 0.618 |
| T8s | 0.618 | 2.641 | 1.627 | 1.618 |
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, KJo peaks at 66.86% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and bottoms out at 50.82% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). KJo stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.
| Flop | Share of flops | KJo wins | Ties | T8s wins | KJo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 66.706 | 0.308 | 32.986 | 66.860 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 50.481 | 0.671 | 48.848 | 50.816 |
| Two-tone | 46.667 | 60.148 | 0.364 | 39.488 | 60.330 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 58.530 | 2.447 | 39.023 | 59.753 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 63.176 | 1.418 | 35.406 | 63.885 |
Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank.
Compared with a random hand
How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 60.57%, KJo changes by +1.23 points, and T8s, from 52.33%, by -14.13.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJo, all flops | 61.804 | 60.569 | +1.235 | 1.02039 |
| KJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 66.860 | 60.569 | +6.291 | 1.10387 |
| KJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 50.816 | 60.569 | -9.753 | 0.83898 |
| KJo, two-tone | 60.330 | 60.569 | -0.239 | 0.99605 |
| KJo, monotone | 59.753 | 60.569 | -0.816 | 0.98653 |
| KJo, paired | 63.885 | 60.569 | +3.316 | 1.05475 |
| T8s, all flops | 38.196 | 52.334 | -14.138 | 0.72985 |
| T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 33.140 | 52.334 | -19.194 | 0.63324 |
| T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 49.184 | 52.334 | -3.150 | 0.93981 |
| T8s, two-tone | 39.670 | 52.334 | -12.664 | 0.75802 |
| T8s, monotone | 40.247 | 52.334 | -12.087 | 0.76904 |
| T8s, paired | 36.115 | 52.334 | -16.219 | 0.69009 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Of the deals of this matchup, 24 share a suit (KJo at 62.50%) and 24 do not (61.11%). KJo does better with a shared suit, by 1.39 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJo wins | Ties | T8s wins | KJo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 62.147 | 0.701 | 37.152 | 62.498 |
| No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 60.801 | 0.620 | 38.579 | 61.111 |
How often this matchup comes up
Exactly 48 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0030% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 96, or 0.0059%.
A worked example
Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, KJo's average share is $123.60 (a gain of $23.60) and T8s' is $76.40 (a loss of $23.60).
Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 615 for KJo, 379 for T8s and 6 tied.
The same matchup from the other side
T8s against KJo adds nothing new: it is 38.20% for T8s and 61.80% for KJo, the same figures reversed.
Keep exploring
The calculator link fills in KsJh against Td8d, 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.
How this was computed
This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 48 ways to deal one KJo 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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