T8s
62.42%
Wins 61.49%, ties 1.88%
54s
37.58%
Wins 36.63%, ties 1.88%
T8s against 54s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T8s | 61.486 | 1.875 | 36.639 | 62.423 |
| 54s | 36.639 | 1.875 | 61.486 | 37.577 |
Both hands are suited hands: T8s and 54s. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances.
T8s is ahead, but 54s is far from dead: it takes 366 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 1.88% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that.
The hand ranking puts T8s at 73 and 54s at 136 out of 169 starting hands.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| T8s | 16,845,000 | 514,000 | 10,038,000 |
| 54s | 10,038,000 | 514,000 | 16,845,000 |
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 | 1.661 | 1.626 | 2.729 | 0.602 |
| 54s | 0.602 | 2.729 | 1.626 | 1.661 |
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
Across the five flop textures T8s' equity moves by 15.54 points, from 50.27% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 65.81% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. T8s 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 | T8s wins | Ties | 54s wins | T8s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 65.174 | 1.264 | 33.562 | 65.806 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 50.002 | 0.541 | 49.457 | 50.272 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.503 | 1.027 | 37.470 | 62.017 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 57.947 | 4.018 | 38.035 | 59.956 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 60.911 | 4.880 | 34.209 | 63.351 |
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 54s holds 41.45%. Facing each other changes that by +10.09 points for T8s and -3.87 points for 54s.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T8s, all flops | 62.423 | 52.334 | +10.089 | 1.19278 |
| T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 65.806 | 52.334 | +13.472 | 1.25742 |
| T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 50.272 | 52.334 | -2.062 | 0.96060 |
| T8s, two-tone | 62.017 | 52.334 | +9.683 | 1.18502 |
| T8s, monotone | 59.956 | 52.334 | +7.622 | 1.14564 |
| T8s, paired | 63.351 | 52.334 | +11.017 | 1.21051 |
| 54s, all flops | 37.577 | 41.453 | -3.876 | 0.90650 |
| 54s, rainbow, ten or higher | 34.194 | 41.453 | -7.259 | 0.82489 |
| 54s, rainbow, nine or lower | 49.728 | 41.453 | +8.275 | 1.19962 |
| 54s, two-tone | 37.983 | 41.453 | -3.470 | 0.91629 |
| 54s, monotone | 40.044 | 41.453 | -1.409 | 0.96601 |
| 54s, paired | 36.649 | 41.453 | -4.804 | 0.88411 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Does suit overlap move the numbers? T8s has 64.71% when the hands share a suit and 61.66% when they do not. T8s does better with a shared suit, by 3.05 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | T8s wins | Ties | 54s wins | T8s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 63.690 | 2.030 | 34.280 | 64.705 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 60.751 | 1.824 | 37.425 | 61.663 |
How often this matchup comes up
You will meet this exact matchup 0.0020% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 32 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order.
A worked example
Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average T8s takes back $124.84 of it, which is $24.84 more than it put in, and 54s takes back $75.16, $24.84 less than it put in.
Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 615 outright wins for T8s, 366 for 54s, and 19 split pots.
The same matchup from the other side
If you came looking for 54s against T8s, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 37.58% and 62.42%.
Keep exploring
Try Ts8s against 5h4h 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 16 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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