--- title: "T8s vs 43s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-43s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-43s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "T8s is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 63.85% to 36.16% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-43s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-53s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-43s.md"] --- # T8s vs 43s: preflop equity T8s is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 63.85% to 36.16% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, T8s finishes with 63.85% of the pot and 43s with 36.15%. ## T8s against 43s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for T8s against 43s, in percent** | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | 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. **T8s against 43s read as odds** | 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. **T8s against 43s by flop texture, in percent** | 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%. **T8s and 43s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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. **T8s against 43s by suit overlap, in percent** | 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. - [Open Ts8s against 4h3h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=Ts8s&p2=4h3h) - [T8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t8s.md) - [43s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/43s.md) - [T9o vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-43s.md) - [T8s vs 53s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-53s.md) - [33 vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-43s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## 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. ## Related - [T9o vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-43s.md) - [T8s vs 53s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-53s.md) - [33 vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-43s.md)