--- title: "KTo vs T8s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-t8s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-t8s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KTo is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 68.89% to 31.11% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-t9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-98s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-t8s.md"] --- # KTo vs T8s: preflop equity KTo is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 68.89% to 31.11% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, KTo against T8s stands at 68.89% to 31.11%, a gap of 37.78 points. ## KTo against T8s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KTo against T8s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTo | 67.286 | 3.199 | 29.515 | 68.886 | | T8s | 29.515 | 3.199 | 67.286 | 31.114 | The matchup pits an offsuit hand against a suited hand. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up. KTo is well ahead, and T8s needs a specific kind of board to catch up. Split pots make up 3.20% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. The hand ranking puts KTo at 33 and T8s at 73 out of 169 starting hands. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTo | 41,477,000 | 1,972,000 | 18,194,000 | | T8s | 18,194,000 | 1,972,000 | 41,477,000 | The total is exact: 36 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. **KTo 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTo | 2.214 | 1.486 | 3.388 | 0.452 | | T8s | 0.452 | 3.388 | 1.486 | 2.214 | 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 If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: KTo holds 75.20% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and 54.60% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). KTo stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **KTo against T8s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KTo wins | Ties | T8s wins | KTo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.905 | 73.712 | 2.985 | 23.303 | 75.204 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 53.260 | 2.689 | 44.051 | 54.604 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 65.684 | 2.734 | 31.582 | 67.051 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 62.383 | 4.045 | 33.572 | 64.406 | | Paired | 17.334 | 69.892 | 4.697 | 25.411 | 72.241 | 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 Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 59.74% for KTo, 52.33% for T8s. Here the change is +9.15 and -21.22 points. **KTo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTo, all flops | 68.886 | 59.739 | +9.147 | 1.15312 | | KTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 75.204 | 59.739 | +15.465 | 1.25888 | | KTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 54.604 | 59.739 | -5.135 | 0.91404 | | KTo, two-tone | 67.051 | 59.739 | +7.312 | 1.12240 | | KTo, monotone | 64.406 | 59.739 | +4.667 | 1.07812 | | KTo, paired | 72.241 | 59.739 | +12.502 | 1.20928 | | T8s, all flops | 31.114 | 52.334 | -21.220 | 0.59453 | | T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 24.796 | 52.334 | -27.538 | 0.47380 | | T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 45.396 | 52.334 | -6.938 | 0.86743 | | T8s, two-tone | 32.949 | 52.334 | -19.385 | 0.62959 | | T8s, monotone | 35.594 | 52.334 | -16.740 | 0.68013 | | T8s, paired | 27.759 | 52.334 | -24.575 | 0.53042 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, KTo holds 69.96%; when they do not, it holds 68.35%. KTo does better with a shared suit, by 1.61 points. **KTo against T8s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KTo wins | Ties | T8s wins | KTo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 68.305 | 3.308 | 28.387 | 69.959 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 66.777 | 3.145 | 30.078 | 68.349 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 36 are KTo in one seat and T8s in the other (0.0022%); with the seats swapped too, 72 (0.0044%). ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $137.78 for KTo and $62.22 for T8s; the first side gains $37.78 per all-in and the second gives up $37.78. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 673 outright wins for KTo, 295 for T8s, and 32 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From T8s' side the equity is 31.11%, and from KTo's side it is 68.89%. ## Keep exploring KsTh against Td8d 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 KsTh against Td8d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsTh&p2=Td8d) - [KTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kto.md) - [T8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t8s.md) - [KTo vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-t9o.md) - [KTo vs 98s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-98s.md) - [QTs vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-t8s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 36 deals of KTo 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. ## Related - [KTo vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-t9o.md) - [KTo vs 98s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-98s.md) - [QTs vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-t8s.md)