T8s
62.88%
Wins 61.96%, ties 1.84%
65s
37.12%
Wins 36.20%, ties 1.84%
T8s against 65s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T8s | 61.960 | 1.843 | 36.197 | 62.882 |
| 65s | 36.197 | 1.843 | 61.960 | 37.118 |
Each side holds one of the suited hands: T8s and 65s. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances.
T8s is ahead, but 65s is far from dead: it takes 362 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are part of the picture: 1.84% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win.
Place 73 of 169 belongs to T8s and place 128 belongs to 65s in the ranking against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| T8s | 16,975,000 | 505,000 | 9,917,000 |
| 65s | 9,917,000 | 505,000 | 16,975,000 |
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 | 1.694 | 1.614 | 2.763 | 0.590 |
| 65s | 0.590 | 2.763 | 1.614 | 1.694 |
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
Break the boards down by their first three cards and T8s is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (67.13%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (47.34%). The overall edge for T8s hides low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where 65s comes out in front.
| Flop | Share of flops | T8s wins | Ties | 65s wins | T8s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 66.509 | 1.234 | 32.257 | 67.126 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 47.122 | 0.442 | 52.436 | 47.343 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.985 | 0.989 | 37.026 | 62.480 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 58.281 | 3.933 | 37.786 | 60.248 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 61.254 | 4.898 | 33.848 | 63.703 |
Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank.
Compared with a random hand
Relative to a random opponent, T8s changes by +10.55 points (baseline 52.33%) and 65s by -6.01 points (baseline 43.13%).
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T8s, all flops | 62.882 | 52.334 | +10.548 | 1.20155 |
| T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.126 | 52.334 | +14.792 | 1.28265 |
| T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 47.343 | 52.334 | -4.991 | 0.90463 |
| T8s, two-tone | 62.480 | 52.334 | +10.146 | 1.19387 |
| T8s, monotone | 60.248 | 52.334 | +7.914 | 1.15122 |
| T8s, paired | 63.703 | 52.334 | +11.369 | 1.21724 |
| 65s, all flops | 37.118 | 43.133 | -6.015 | 0.86055 |
| 65s, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.874 | 43.133 | -10.259 | 0.76215 |
| 65s, rainbow, nine or lower | 52.657 | 43.133 | +9.524 | 1.22081 |
| 65s, two-tone | 37.520 | 43.133 | -5.613 | 0.86987 |
| 65s, monotone | 39.752 | 43.133 | -3.381 | 0.92161 |
| 65s, paired | 36.297 | 43.133 | -6.836 | 0.84151 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common T8s has 65.24% equity, and with none in common it has 62.10%. T8s does better with a shared suit, by 3.14 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | T8s wins | Ties | 65s wins | T8s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 64.243 | 1.996 | 33.761 | 65.241 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.199 | 1.792 | 37.009 | 62.095 |
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
Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. T8s' equity of 62.88% is worth $125.76, a $25.76 edge, and 65s' 37.12% is worth $74.24, which is $25.76 under its stake.
In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 620 won outright by T8s, about 362 won outright by 65s and about 18 split.
The same matchup from the other side
If you came looking for 65s against T8s, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 37.12% and 62.88%.
Keep exploring
Try Ts8s against 6h5h 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
All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 16 specific deals of T8s against 65s, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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