KQo
61.60%
Wins 61.26%, ties 0.67%
T8s
38.40%
Wins 38.07%, ties 0.67%
KQo against T8s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KQo | 61.262 | 0.668 | 38.070 | 61.596 |
| T8s | 38.070 | 0.668 | 61.262 | 38.404 |
We compare an offsuit hand with 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 0.67% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot.
Among the 169 starting hands, KQo is number 23 and T8s is number 73 by strength against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| KQo | 50,352,000 | 549,000 | 31,290,000 |
| T8s | 31,290,000 | 549,000 | 50,352,000 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KQo | 1.604 | 1.632 | 2.627 | 0.623 |
| T8s | 0.623 | 2.627 | 1.632 | 1.604 |
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
Across the five flop textures KQo's equity moves by 16.21 points, from 50.49% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 66.70% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. KQo 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 | KQo wins | Ties | T8s wins | KQo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 66.549 | 0.304 | 33.147 | 66.701 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 50.129 | 0.730 | 49.141 | 50.494 |
| Two-tone | 46.667 | 59.956 | 0.373 | 39.671 | 60.142 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 58.405 | 2.454 | 39.141 | 59.632 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 62.868 | 1.414 | 35.718 | 63.575 |
Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank.
Compared with a random hand
Start from the random-hand figures, 61.46% for KQo and 52.33% for T8s. This opponent changes them by +0.14 and -13.93 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KQo, all flops | 61.596 | 61.456 | +0.140 | 1.00228 |
| KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 66.701 | 61.456 | +5.245 | 1.08535 |
| KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 50.494 | 61.456 | -10.962 | 0.82163 |
| KQo, two-tone | 60.142 | 61.456 | -1.314 | 0.97862 |
| KQo, monotone | 59.632 | 61.456 | -1.824 | 0.97032 |
| KQo, paired | 63.575 | 61.456 | +2.119 | 1.03448 |
| T8s, all flops | 38.404 | 52.334 | -13.930 | 0.73383 |
| T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 33.299 | 52.334 | -19.035 | 0.63628 |
| T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 49.506 | 52.334 | -2.828 | 0.94596 |
| T8s, two-tone | 39.858 | 52.334 | -12.476 | 0.76161 |
| T8s, monotone | 40.368 | 52.334 | -11.966 | 0.77135 |
| T8s, paired | 36.425 | 52.334 | -15.909 | 0.69601 |
Does a shared suit matter?
The suit split reads 62.30% for KQo with a shared suit and 60.89% without one. KQo does better with a shared suit, by 1.41 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQo wins | Ties | T8s wins | KQo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 61.949 | 0.709 | 37.342 | 62.304 |
| No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 60.575 | 0.628 | 38.797 | 60.889 |
How often this matchup comes up
How often does it happen? 48 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0030%) are KQo against T8s, and 96 (0.0059%) if either hand may sit in either seat.
A worked example
Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. KQo averages $123.20 from the $200, up $23.20; T8s averages $76.80, down $23.20.
Think in thousands: about 612 of 1,000 go to KQo, about 381 go to T8s, and about 7 are chopped.
The same matchup from the other side
T8s against KQo adds nothing new: it is 38.40% for T8s and 61.60% for KQo, the same figures reversed.
Keep exploring
The calculator link fills in KsQh 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
Method: exact enumeration. The 48 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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