--- title: "KTs vs T8s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-t8s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-t8s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KTs is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 70.04% to 29.96% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-t9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-98s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-t8s.md"] --- # KTs vs T8s: preflop equity KTs is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 70.04% to 29.96% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, KTs takes 70.04% of the pot on average and T8s takes the other 29.96%. ## KTs against T8s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KTs against T8s, in percent** | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | 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. **KTs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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. **KTs against T8s by flop texture, in percent** | 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. **KTs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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. **KTs against T8s by suit overlap, in percent** | 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. - [Open KsTs against Th8h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsTs&p2=Th8h) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [T8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t8s.md) - [KTs vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-t9o.md) - [KTs vs 98s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-98s.md) - [KQo vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-t8s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## 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. ## Related - [KTs vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-t9o.md) - [KTs vs 98s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-98s.md) - [KQo vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-t8s.md)