--- title: "KQs vs T8s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-t8s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-t8s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KQs is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 64.02% to 35.98% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-t9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-98s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-t8s.md"] --- # KQs vs T8s: preflop equity KQs is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 64.02% to 35.98% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts KQs at 64.02% and T8s at 35.98% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## KQs against T8s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQs against T8s, in percent** | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | 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. **KQs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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. **KQs against T8s by flop texture, in percent** | 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. **KQs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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. **KQs against T8s by suit overlap, in percent** | 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. - [Open KsQs against Th8h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQs&p2=Th8h) - [KQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqs.md) - [T8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t8s.md) - [KQs vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-t9o.md) - [KQs vs 98s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-98s.md) - [66 vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-t8s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## 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. ## Related - [KQs vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-t9o.md) - [KQs vs 98s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-98s.md) - [66 vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-t8s.md)