--- title: "QQ vs A8s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a8s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a8s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over A8s before the flop: 67.96% to 32.04% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kqo.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-a8s.md"] --- # QQ vs A8s: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over A8s before the flop: 67.96% to 32.04% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts QQ at 67.96% and A8s at 32.04% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## QQ against A8s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against A8s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 67.768 | 0.387 | 31.845 | 67.961 | | A8s | 31.845 | 0.387 | 67.768 | 32.039 | The first hand is a pocket pair; the second is a suited hand. One of the other hand's cards outranks the pair and one is below it, which makes this a closer race than a pair against two small cards. QQ is the clear favorite, though A8s gets there on roughly one board in 3. Ties are 0.39% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, QQ is number 3 and A8s is number 21. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 27,849,000 | 159,000 | 13,087,000 | | A8s | 13,087,000 | 159,000 | 27,849,000 | The total is exact: 24 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. **QQ against A8s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 2.121 | 1.476 | 3.140 | 0.471 | | A8s | 0.471 | 3.140 | 1.476 | 2.121 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, QQ peaks at 76.43% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 63.41% on monotone flops. QQ stays ahead on all five textures. **QQ against A8s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | A8s wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 67.262 | 0.151 | 32.587 | 67.338 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 75.950 | 0.957 | 23.093 | 76.428 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 65.991 | 0.309 | 33.700 | 66.146 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 62.206 | 2.400 | 35.394 | 63.406 | | Paired | 17.334 | 71.583 | 0.083 | 28.334 | 71.625 | 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 Relative to a random opponent, QQ changes by -11.97 points (baseline 79.93%) and A8s by -29.90 points (baseline 61.94%). **QQ and A8s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ, all flops | 67.961 | 79.925 | -11.964 | 0.85031 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.338 | 79.925 | -12.587 | 0.84251 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 76.428 | 79.925 | -3.497 | 0.95625 | | QQ, two-tone | 66.146 | 79.925 | -13.779 | 0.82760 | | QQ, monotone | 63.406 | 79.925 | -16.519 | 0.79332 | | QQ, paired | 71.625 | 79.925 | -8.300 | 0.89615 | | A8s, all flops | 32.039 | 61.944 | -29.905 | 0.51723 | | A8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.662 | 61.944 | -29.282 | 0.52728 | | A8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 23.572 | 61.944 | -38.372 | 0.38054 | | A8s, two-tone | 33.854 | 61.944 | -28.090 | 0.54653 | | A8s, monotone | 36.594 | 61.944 | -25.350 | 0.59076 | | A8s, paired | 28.375 | 61.944 | -33.569 | 0.45808 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Two kinds of deal exist here. In 12 of them the hands share a suit and QQ holds 68.25%. In 12 they do not, and it holds 67.67%. QQ does better with a shared suit, by 0.58 points. **QQ against A8s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | A8s wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 68.038 | 0.428 | 31.534 | 68.252 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 67.498 | 0.345 | 32.157 | 67.670 | ## How often this matchup comes up QQ against A8s is made up of 24 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0015% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 48 counting both seat orders, 0.0030%. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. QQ's equity of 67.96% is worth $135.92, a $35.92 edge, and A8s' 32.04% is worth $64.08, which is $35.92 under its stake. Think in thousands: about 678 of 1,000 go to QQ, about 318 go to A8s, and about 4 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From A8s' side the equity is 32.04%, and from QQ's side it is 67.96%. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with QsQh against Ad8d already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking. - [Open QsQh against Ad8d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=Ad8d) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [A8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a8s.md) - [QQ vs KTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kts.md) - [QQ vs KQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kqo.md) - [JJ vs A8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-a8s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 24 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QQ vs KTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kts.md) - [QQ vs KQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kqo.md) - [JJ vs A8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-a8s.md)