--- title: "QTs vs T8s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-t8s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-t8s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QTs is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 69.57% to 30.43% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-t9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-98s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-t8s.md"] --- # QTs vs T8s: preflop equity QTs is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 69.57% to 30.43% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, QTs is ahead of T8s by 39.14 points of equity, 69.57% to 30.43%. ## QTs against T8s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QTs against T8s, in percent** | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | 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. **QTs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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. **QTs against T8s by flop texture, in percent** | 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. **QTs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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. **QTs against T8s by suit overlap, in percent** | 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. - [Open QsTs against Th8h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsTs&p2=Th8h) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [T8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t8s.md) - [QTs vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-t9o.md) - [QTs vs 98s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-98s.md) - [A4s vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-t8s.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 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. ## Related - [QTs vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-t9o.md) - [QTs vs 98s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-98s.md) - [A4s vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-t8s.md)