QTs
69.57%
Wins 67.57%, ties 4.00%
T8s
30.43%
Wins 28.43%, ties 4.00%
QTs against T8s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QTs | 67.570 | 4.004 | 28.426 | 69.572 |
| T8s | 28.426 | 4.004 | 67.570 | 30.428 |
Here suited hands face each other, QTs on one side and T8s on the other. The two hands share a rank, and the one with the better other card dominates: it wins most kicker battles when that shared rank hits.
QTs is well ahead, and T8s needs a specific kind of board to catch up. A split pot comes up on 4.00% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that.
Among the 169 starting hands, QTs is number 34 and T8s is number 73 by strength against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| QTs | 13,884,000 | 823,000 | 5,841,000 |
| T8s | 5,841,000 | 823,000 | 13,884,000 |
12 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QTs | 2.286 | 1.480 | 3.518 | 0.437 |
| T8s | 0.437 | 3.518 | 1.480 | 2.286 |
In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity.
Who is ahead on which flops
The flop changes the picture. QTs does best on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 75.03%, and worst on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 57.54%. QTs 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 | QTs wins | Ties | T8s wins | QTs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 73.091 | 3.884 | 23.025 | 75.033 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 56.486 | 2.114 | 41.400 | 57.543 |
| Two-tone | 46.543 | 66.807 | 3.169 | 30.024 | 68.391 |
| Monotone | 5.215 | 60.356 | 5.440 | 34.204 | 63.076 |
| Paired | 17.333 | 68.693 | 6.747 | 24.560 | 72.067 |
A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank.
Compared with a random hand
A random hand would give QTs 59.47% and T8s 52.33%. Against each other the change is +10.10 points for QTs and -21.90 for T8s.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QTs, all flops | 69.572 | 59.468 | +10.104 | 1.16991 |
| QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 75.033 | 59.468 | +15.565 | 1.26174 |
| QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 57.543 | 59.468 | -1.925 | 0.96763 |
| QTs, two-tone | 68.391 | 59.468 | +8.923 | 1.15005 |
| QTs, monotone | 63.076 | 59.468 | +3.608 | 1.06067 |
| QTs, paired | 72.067 | 59.468 | +12.599 | 1.21186 |
| T8s, all flops | 30.428 | 52.334 | -21.906 | 0.58142 |
| T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 24.967 | 52.334 | -27.367 | 0.47707 |
| T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 42.457 | 52.334 | -9.877 | 0.81127 |
| T8s, two-tone | 31.609 | 52.334 | -20.725 | 0.60399 |
| T8s, monotone | 36.924 | 52.334 | -15.410 | 0.70555 |
| T8s, paired | 27.933 | 52.334 | -24.401 | 0.53374 |
Does a shared suit matter?
For this pair the shared-suit row is empty: the two hands cannot both own a card of one suit without reusing a card.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QTs wins | Ties | T8s wins | QTs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible |
| No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 67.570 | 4.004 | 28.426 | 69.572 |
How often this matchup comes up
The class pair covers 12 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0007% of 1,624,350, and 24 (0.0015%) in either order.
A worked example
With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $139.14 for QTs and $60.86 for T8s; the first side gains $39.14 per all-in and the second gives up $39.14.
Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 676 wins for QTs, 284 for T8s and 40 chopped pots.
The same matchup from the other side
The mirror image, T8s against QTs, is 30.43% to 69.57%, and its address redirects to this page.
Keep exploring
Try QsTs against Th8h in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking.
How this was computed
The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 12 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.
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