KTs
70.04%
Wins 68.49%, ties 3.10%
T8s
29.96%
Wins 28.41%, ties 3.10%
KTs against T8s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KTs | 68.493 | 3.095 | 28.412 | 70.041 |
| T8s | 28.412 | 3.095 | 68.493 | 29.959 |
KTs and T8s are both suited hands. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up.
KTs is the clear favorite, though T8s gets there on roughly one board in 3. About 3.10% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands.
By strength against a random hand, KTs holds place 22 of 169 and T8s holds place 73.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| KTs | 14,074,000 | 636,000 | 5,838,000 |
| T8s | 5,838,000 | 636,000 | 14,074,000 |
The board total is exact, 12 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KTs | 2.338 | 1.460 | 3.520 | 0.428 |
| T8s | 0.428 | 3.520 | 1.460 | 2.338 |
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
KTs prefers rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, where it holds 75.86%, and likes low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) least, where it holds 56.24%. KTs 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 | KTs wins | Ties | T8s wins | KTs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 74.408 | 2.900 | 22.692 | 75.858 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 54.959 | 2.554 | 42.487 | 56.236 |
| Two-tone | 46.543 | 67.457 | 2.529 | 30.014 | 68.722 |
| Monotone | 5.215 | 60.949 | 4.858 | 34.193 | 63.378 |
| Paired | 17.333 | 70.899 | 4.576 | 24.525 | 73.187 |
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
Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 61.79% for KTs, 52.33% for T8s. Here the change is +8.25 and -22.37 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KTs, all flops | 70.041 | 61.789 | +8.252 | 1.13355 |
| KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 75.858 | 61.789 | +14.069 | 1.22769 |
| KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 56.236 | 61.789 | -5.553 | 0.91013 |
| KTs, two-tone | 68.722 | 61.789 | +6.933 | 1.11220 |
| KTs, monotone | 63.378 | 61.789 | +1.589 | 1.02572 |
| KTs, paired | 73.187 | 61.789 | +11.398 | 1.18447 |
| T8s, all flops | 29.959 | 52.334 | -22.375 | 0.57246 |
| T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 24.142 | 52.334 | -28.192 | 0.46131 |
| T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 43.764 | 52.334 | -8.570 | 0.83624 |
| T8s, two-tone | 31.278 | 52.334 | -21.056 | 0.59766 |
| T8s, monotone | 36.622 | 52.334 | -15.712 | 0.69977 |
| T8s, paired | 26.813 | 52.334 | -25.521 | 0.51234 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Every legal deal of KTs against T8s leaves the hands with no suit in common, so the suit split does not apply here.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KTs wins | Ties | T8s wins | KTs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible |
| No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 68.493 | 3.095 | 28.412 | 70.041 |
How often this matchup comes up
You will meet this exact matchup 0.0015% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 24 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order.
A worked example
A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says KTs gets $140.08 of it on average and T8s gets $59.92.
Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 685 for KTs, 284 for T8s and 31 tied.
The same matchup from the other side
One page covers both views. From T8s' side the equity is 29.96%, and from KTs' side it is 70.04%.
Keep exploring
KsTs 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
Method: exact enumeration. The 12 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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