T8s
63.80%
Wins 62.86%, ties 1.88%
53s
36.20%
Wins 35.26%, ties 1.88%
T8s against 53s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T8s | 62.859 | 1.884 | 35.257 | 63.801 |
| 53s | 35.257 | 1.884 | 62.859 | 36.199 |
T8s meets 53s, and both are suited hands. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances.
T8s is ahead, but 53s is far from dead: it takes 352 of every 1,000 deals outright. The tie share is 1.88%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright.
Among the 169 starting hands, T8s is number 73 and 53s is number 146 by strength against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| T8s | 17,221,000 | 516,000 | 9,659,000 |
| 53s | 9,659,000 | 516,000 | 17,221,000 |
The total is exact: 16 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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T8s | 1.763 | 1.591 | 2.836 | 0.567 |
| 53s | 0.567 | 2.836 | 1.591 | 1.763 |
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
The flop changes the picture. T8s does best on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 67.02%, and worst on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 53.62%. T8s stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | T8s wins | Ties | 53s wins | T8s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 66.384 | 1.264 | 32.352 | 67.016 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 53.317 | 0.597 | 46.086 | 53.615 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.942 | 1.035 | 36.023 | 63.459 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 59.084 | 4.030 | 36.886 | 61.099 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 61.771 | 4.885 | 33.344 | 64.214 |
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
Against one random hand instead, T8s holds 52.33% and 53s holds 39.69%. Facing each other changes that by +11.47 points for T8s and -3.49 points for 53s.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T8s, all flops | 63.801 | 52.334 | +11.467 | 1.21911 |
| T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.016 | 52.334 | +14.682 | 1.28054 |
| T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 53.615 | 52.334 | +1.281 | 1.02448 |
| T8s, two-tone | 63.459 | 52.334 | +11.125 | 1.21258 |
| T8s, monotone | 61.099 | 52.334 | +8.765 | 1.16748 |
| T8s, paired | 64.214 | 52.334 | +11.880 | 1.22700 |
| 53s, all flops | 36.199 | 39.693 | -3.494 | 0.91197 |
| 53s, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.984 | 39.693 | -6.709 | 0.83098 |
| 53s, rainbow, nine or lower | 46.385 | 39.693 | +6.692 | 1.16859 |
| 53s, two-tone | 36.541 | 39.693 | -3.152 | 0.92059 |
| 53s, monotone | 38.901 | 39.693 | -0.792 | 0.98005 |
| 53s, paired | 35.786 | 39.693 | -3.907 | 0.90157 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Two kinds of deal exist here. In 4 of them the hands share a suit and T8s holds 66.21%. In 12 they do not, and it holds 63.00%. T8s does better with a shared suit, by 3.21 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | T8s wins | Ties | 53s wins | T8s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.190 | 2.039 | 32.771 | 66.210 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.082 | 1.832 | 36.086 | 62.998 |
How often this matchup comes up
How often does it happen? 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0010%) are T8s against 53s, and 32 (0.0020%) if either hand may sit in either seat.
A worked example
Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: T8s averages $127.60 back, ahead of its $100 by $27.60, while 53s averages $72.40, short of its $100 by $27.60.
Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 629 for T8s, 352 for 53s and 19 tied.
The same matchup from the other side
Swap the hands and you get 53s with 36.20% against T8s with 63.80%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first.
Keep exploring
Try Ts8s against 5h3h 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
We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 16 specific T8s against 53s deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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