--- title: "KK vs T8s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-t8s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-t8s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KK is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 79.30% to 20.70% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-t9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-98s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-t8s.md"] --- # KK vs T8s: preflop equity KK is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 79.30% to 20.70% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, KK against T8s stands at 79.30% to 20.70%, a gap of 58.60 points. ## KK against T8s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KK against T8s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK | 79.108 | 0.380 | 20.512 | 79.298 | | T8s | 20.512 | 0.380 | 79.108 | 20.702 | One side is a pocket pair, the other is a suited hand. The pair outranks both of the other hand's cards, which is why the pair is a strong favorite. KK is well ahead, and T8s needs a specific kind of board to catch up. 0.38% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. KK ranks number 2 of 169 starting hands, and T8s ranks number 73, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK | 32,510,000 | 156,000 | 8,429,000 | | T8s | 8,429,000 | 156,000 | 32,510,000 | The total is exact: 24 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **KK 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK | 3.830 | 1.264 | 4.875 | 0.261 | | T8s | 0.261 | 4.875 | 1.264 | 3.830 | The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call. ## Who is ahead on which flops By flop texture, KK's equity runs from 73.95% on monotone flops up to 83.18% on paired flops. KK stays ahead on all five textures. **KK against T8s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KK wins | Ties | T8s wins | KK equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 81.305 | 0.197 | 18.498 | 81.403 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 78.702 | 0.747 | 20.551 | 79.075 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 77.255 | 0.300 | 22.445 | 77.405 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 72.755 | 2.398 | 24.847 | 73.954 | | Paired | 17.334 | 83.135 | 0.092 | 16.773 | 83.181 | 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 82.40%, KK changes by -3.10 points, and T8s, from 52.33%, by -31.63. **KK 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK, all flops | 79.298 | 82.396 | -3.098 | 0.96240 | | KK, rainbow, ten or higher | 81.403 | 82.396 | -0.993 | 0.98795 | | KK, rainbow, nine or lower | 79.075 | 82.396 | -3.321 | 0.95969 | | KK, two-tone | 77.405 | 82.396 | -4.991 | 0.93943 | | KK, monotone | 73.954 | 82.396 | -8.442 | 0.89754 | | KK, paired | 83.181 | 82.396 | +0.785 | 1.00953 | | T8s, all flops | 20.702 | 52.334 | -31.632 | 0.39557 | | T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 18.597 | 52.334 | -33.737 | 0.35535 | | T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 20.925 | 52.334 | -31.409 | 0.39984 | | T8s, two-tone | 22.595 | 52.334 | -29.739 | 0.43175 | | T8s, monotone | 26.046 | 52.334 | -26.288 | 0.49769 | | T8s, paired | 16.819 | 52.334 | -35.515 | 0.32138 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give KK 79.88% when the hands overlap in a suit and 78.72% when they do not. KK does better with a shared suit, by 1.16 points. **KK against T8s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KK wins | Ties | T8s wins | KK equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 79.666 | 0.421 | 19.913 | 79.876 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 78.551 | 0.339 | 21.110 | 78.720 | ## How often this matchup comes up KK against T8s is made up of 24 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0015% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 48 counting both seat orders, 0.0030%. ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. KK averages $158.60 from the $200, up $58.60; T8s averages $41.40, down $58.60. Per 1,000 deals: KK wins about 791, T8s wins about 205, and about 4 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for T8s against KK, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 20.70% and 79.30%. ## Keep exploring Try KsKh 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 KsKh against Td8d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsKh&p2=Td8d) - [KK combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kk.md) - [T8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t8s.md) - [KK vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-t9o.md) - [KK vs 98s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-98s.md) - [QQ vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-t8s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 24 specific KK against T8s deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KK vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-t9o.md) - [KK vs 98s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-98s.md) - [QQ vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-t8s.md)