KJs vs T8s: preflop equity

Before any board card is dealt, KJs holds 64.19% equity against T8s, which leaves T8s with 35.81%.

KJs

64.19%

Wins 63.84%, ties 0.70%

T8s

35.81%

Wins 35.46%, ties 0.70%

Equity counts a tie as half a win. Exact over every board.

KJs against T8s: the numbers

Exact preflop results for KJs against T8s, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
KJs63.8410.69535.46464.188
T8s35.4640.69563.84135.812

This is a contest between two suited hands, KJs and T8s. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits.

A 28.38 point lead is real, and T8s still takes about 355 of every 1,000 deals outright. 0.70% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that.

Among the 169 starting hands, KJs is number 20 and T8s is number 73 by strength against a random hand.

Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
KJs17,490,000190,0009,716,000
T8s9,716,000190,00017,490,000

16 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.

KJs against T8s read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
KJs1.7921.5662.8200.558
T8s0.5582.8201.5661.792

The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity.

Who is ahead on which flops

By flop texture, KJs' equity runs from 52.92% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) up to 68.16% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. KJs stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.

KJs against T8s by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsKJs winsTiesT8s winsKJs equity
Rainbow, ten or higher23.86768.0140.29931.68768.163
Rainbow, nine or lower7.04252.5950.64646.75952.918
Two-tone46.72763.3820.34236.27663.553
Monotone5.27359.2743.46337.26361.006
Paired17.09165.3101.38033.31066.000

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, 62.57% for KJs and 52.33% for T8s. This opponent changes them by +1.62 and -16.52 points.

KJs and T8s here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
KJs, all flops64.18862.567+1.6211.02591
KJs, rainbow, ten or higher68.16362.567+5.5961.08944
KJs, rainbow, nine or lower52.91862.567-9.6490.84578
KJs, two-tone63.55362.567+0.9861.01576
KJs, monotone61.00662.567-1.5610.97505
KJs, paired66.00062.567+3.4331.05487
T8s, all flops35.81252.334-16.5220.68430
T8s, rainbow, ten or higher31.83752.334-20.4970.60834
T8s, rainbow, nine or lower47.08252.334-5.2520.89964
T8s, two-tone36.44752.334-15.8870.69643
T8s, monotone38.99452.334-13.3400.74510
T8s, paired34.00052.334-18.3340.64967

Does a shared suit matter?

The suit split reads 66.68% for KJs with a shared suit and 63.36% without one. KJs does better with a shared suit, by 3.32 points.

KJs against T8s by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsKJs winsTiesT8s winsKJs equity
Share a suit425.0066.2930.78132.92666.683
No shared suit1275.0063.0240.66636.31063.357

How often this matchup comes up

Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 16 are KJs in one seat and T8s in the other (0.0010%); with the seats swapped too, 32 (0.0020%).

A worked example

A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says KJs gets $128.38 of it on average and T8s gets $71.62.

Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 638 for KJs, 355 for T8s and 7 tied.

The same matchup from the other side

One page covers both views. From T8s' side the equity is 35.81%, and from KJs' side it is 64.19%.

Open the calculator with KsJs against Th8h 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.

How this was computed

Nothing here is simulated. The 16 deals of KJs 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.

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