T8s
63.85%
Wins 62.90%, ties 1.89%
43s
36.15%
Wins 35.21%, ties 1.89%
T8s against 43s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T8s | 62.900 | 1.889 | 35.211 | 63.845 |
| 43s | 35.211 | 1.889 | 62.900 | 36.155 |
Here suited hands face each other, T8s on one side and 43s on the other. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits.
T8s is ahead, but 43s is far from dead: it takes 352 of every 1,000 deals outright. Of every 100 boards, about 1.89 are split pots, and the equity figures already include them.
By strength against a random hand, T8s holds place 73 of 169 and 43s holds place 150.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| T8s | 17,233,000 | 518,000 | 9,647,000 |
| 43s | 9,647,000 | 518,000 | 17,233,000 |
The board total is exact, 16 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T8s | 1.766 | 1.590 | 2.840 | 0.566 |
| 43s | 0.566 | 2.840 | 1.590 | 1.766 |
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
Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the best for T8s (67.03%); low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the worst (53.66%). T8s stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | T8s wins | Ties | 43s wins | T8s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 66.399 | 1.264 | 32.337 | 67.031 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 53.365 | 0.597 | 46.038 | 53.664 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.962 | 1.035 | 36.003 | 63.479 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 59.100 | 4.121 | 36.779 | 61.160 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 61.917 | 4.888 | 33.195 | 64.361 |
Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank.
Compared with a random hand
The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +11.52 points for T8s, from 52.33%, and -2.49 for 43s, from 38.64%.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T8s, all flops | 63.845 | 52.334 | +11.511 | 1.21995 |
| T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.031 | 52.334 | +14.697 | 1.28083 |
| T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 53.664 | 52.334 | +1.330 | 1.02541 |
| T8s, two-tone | 63.479 | 52.334 | +11.145 | 1.21296 |
| T8s, monotone | 61.160 | 52.334 | +8.826 | 1.16865 |
| T8s, paired | 64.361 | 52.334 | +12.027 | 1.22981 |
| 43s, all flops | 36.155 | 38.642 | -2.487 | 0.93564 |
| 43s, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.969 | 38.642 | -5.673 | 0.85319 |
| 43s, rainbow, nine or lower | 46.336 | 38.642 | +7.694 | 1.19911 |
| 43s, two-tone | 36.521 | 38.642 | -2.121 | 0.94511 |
| 43s, monotone | 38.840 | 38.642 | +0.198 | 1.00512 |
| 43s, paired | 35.639 | 38.642 | -3.003 | 0.92229 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Does suit overlap move the numbers? T8s has 66.25% when the hands share a suit and 63.04% when they do not. T8s does better with a shared suit, by 3.21 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | T8s wins | Ties | 43s wins | T8s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.234 | 2.040 | 32.726 | 66.254 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.122 | 1.839 | 36.039 | 63.042 |
How often this matchup comes up
How often does it happen? 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0010%) are T8s against 43s, and 32 (0.0020%) if either hand may sit in either seat.
A worked example
A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says T8s gets $127.70 of it on average and 43s gets $72.30.
Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 629 for T8s, 352 for 43s and 19 ties.
The same matchup from the other side
43s against T8s adds nothing new: it is 36.15% for 43s and 63.85% for T8s, the same figures reversed.
Keep exploring
Try Ts8s against 4h3h 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
This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 16 ways to deal one T8s and one 43s 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.
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