--- title: "QJo vs T8s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-t8s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-t8s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QJo is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 62.86% to 37.15% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-t9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-98s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-t8s.md"] --- # QJo vs T8s: preflop equity QJo is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 62.86% to 37.15% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, QJo takes 62.86% of the pot on average and T8s takes the other 37.14%. ## QJo against T8s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QJo against T8s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJo | 62.400 | 0.909 | 36.691 | 62.855 | | T8s | 36.691 | 0.909 | 62.400 | 37.145 | The first hand is an offsuit hand; the second is a suited hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. Ties are part of the picture: 0.91% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. Ranked by equity against a random hand, QJo is number 39 of the 169 starting hands and T8s is number 73. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJo | 51,287,000 | 747,000 | 30,157,000 | | T8s | 30,157,000 | 747,000 | 51,287,000 | The total is exact: 48 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. **QJo 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJo | 1.692 | 1.603 | 2.725 | 0.591 | | T8s | 0.591 | 2.725 | 1.603 | 1.692 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and QJo is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (68.14%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (51.98%). QJo stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **QJo against T8s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QJo wins | Ties | T8s wins | QJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 67.909 | 0.462 | 31.629 | 68.140 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 51.646 | 0.658 | 47.696 | 51.975 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 61.331 | 0.475 | 38.194 | 61.568 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 59.479 | 2.535 | 37.986 | 60.747 | | Paired | 17.091 | 62.909 | 2.331 | 34.760 | 64.075 | 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 Relative to a random opponent, QJo changes by +4.72 points (baseline 58.14%) and T8s by -15.19 points (baseline 52.33%). **QJo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJo, all flops | 62.855 | 58.135 | +4.720 | 1.08119 | | QJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.140 | 58.135 | +10.005 | 1.17210 | | QJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 51.975 | 58.135 | -6.160 | 0.89404 | | QJo, two-tone | 61.568 | 58.135 | +3.433 | 1.05905 | | QJo, monotone | 60.747 | 58.135 | +2.612 | 1.04493 | | QJo, paired | 64.075 | 58.135 | +5.940 | 1.10218 | | T8s, all flops | 37.145 | 52.334 | -15.189 | 0.70977 | | T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.860 | 52.334 | -20.474 | 0.60878 | | T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 48.025 | 52.334 | -4.309 | 0.91766 | | T8s, two-tone | 38.432 | 52.334 | -13.902 | 0.73436 | | T8s, monotone | 39.253 | 52.334 | -13.081 | 0.75005 | | T8s, paired | 35.925 | 52.334 | -16.409 | 0.68646 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Two kinds of deal exist here. In 24 of them the hands share a suit and QJo holds 63.56%. In 24 they do not, and it holds 62.15%. QJo does better with a shared suit, by 1.41 points. **QJo against T8s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QJo wins | Ties | T8s wins | QJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 63.083 | 0.950 | 35.967 | 63.558 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 61.717 | 0.869 | 37.414 | 62.151 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 48 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0030%) are QJo against T8s, and 96 (0.0059%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $125.72 for QJo and $74.28 for T8s; the first side gains $25.72 per all-in and the second gives up $25.72. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 624 for QJo, 367 for T8s and 9 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, T8s against QJo, is 37.14% to 62.86%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring QsJh 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 QsJh against Td8d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsJh&p2=Td8d) - [QJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjo.md) - [T8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t8s.md) - [QJo vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-t9o.md) - [QJo vs 98s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-98s.md) - [K9o vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-t8s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 48 ways to deal one QJo and one T8s without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QJo vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-t9o.md) - [QJo vs 98s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-98s.md) - [K9o vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-t8s.md)