KQs
64.02%
Wins 63.67%, ties 0.70%
T8s
35.98%
Wins 35.63%, ties 0.70%
KQs against T8s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KQs | 63.674 | 0.700 | 35.626 | 64.024 |
| T8s | 35.626 | 0.700 | 63.674 | 35.976 |
The matchup is suited hands on both sides, KQs against T8s. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other.
KQs is ahead, but T8s is far from dead: it takes 356 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are 0.70% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot.
KQs ranks number 16 of 169 starting hands, and T8s ranks number 73, by equity against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| KQs | 17,445,000 | 192,000 | 9,760,000 |
| T8s | 9,760,000 | 192,000 | 17,445,000 |
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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KQs | 1.780 | 1.570 | 2.807 | 0.562 |
| T8s | 0.562 | 2.807 | 1.570 | 1.780 |
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
Break the boards down by their first three cards and KQs is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (68.00%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (52.65%). KQs 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 | KQs wins | Ties | T8s wins | KQs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 67.855 | 0.294 | 31.851 | 68.002 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 52.298 | 0.701 | 47.001 | 52.649 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 63.252 | 0.349 | 36.399 | 63.427 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 59.263 | 3.467 | 37.270 | 60.997 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 65.035 | 1.376 | 33.589 | 65.723 |
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
Start from the random-hand figures, 63.40% for KQs and 52.33% for T8s. This opponent changes them by +0.62 and -16.35 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KQs, all flops | 64.024 | 63.400 | +0.624 | 1.00984 |
| KQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.002 | 63.400 | +4.602 | 1.07259 |
| KQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 52.649 | 63.400 | -10.751 | 0.83043 |
| KQs, two-tone | 63.427 | 63.400 | +0.027 | 1.00043 |
| KQs, monotone | 60.997 | 63.400 | -2.403 | 0.96210 |
| KQs, paired | 65.723 | 63.400 | +2.323 | 1.03664 |
| T8s, all flops | 35.976 | 52.334 | -16.358 | 0.68743 |
| T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.998 | 52.334 | -20.336 | 0.61142 |
| T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 47.351 | 52.334 | -4.983 | 0.90478 |
| T8s, two-tone | 36.573 | 52.334 | -15.761 | 0.69884 |
| T8s, monotone | 39.003 | 52.334 | -13.331 | 0.74527 |
| T8s, paired | 34.277 | 52.334 | -18.057 | 0.65497 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, KQs has 66.47%; looking only at deals where they do not, 63.21%. KQs does better with a shared suit, by 3.26 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQs wins | Ties | T8s wins | KQs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 66.073 | 0.788 | 33.139 | 66.467 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.874 | 0.671 | 36.455 | 63.210 |
How often this matchup comes up
You will meet this exact matchup 0.0020% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 32 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order.
A worked example
To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. KQs is worth $128.04 on average (+$28.04); T8s is worth $71.96 (-$28.04).
A thousand deals look like this: KQs takes 637, T8s takes 356, 7 are ties.
The same matchup from the other side
T8s against KQs adds nothing new: it is 35.98% for T8s and 64.02% for KQs, the same figures reversed.
Keep exploring
KsQs against Th8h is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength.
How this was computed
We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 16 specific KQs 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.
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