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title: "T8s vs 86s: preflop equity"
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summary: "T8s is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 68.33% to 31.67% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit."
related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-86s.md"]
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# T8s vs 86s: preflop equity

T8s is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 68.33% to 31.67% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit.

In equity, T8s against 86s stands at 68.33% to 31.67%, a gap of 36.66 points.

## T8s against 86s: the numbers

**Exact preflop results for T8s against 86s, in percent**

| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| T8s | 64.841 | 6.971 | 28.188 | 68.327 |
| 86s | 28.188 | 6.971 | 64.841 | 31.673 |

T8s meets 86s, and both are suited hands. The two hands share a rank, and the one with the better other card dominates: it wins most kicker battles when that shared rank hits.

T8s is well ahead, and 86s needs a specific kind of board to catch up. The tie share is 6.97%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright.

Among the 169 starting hands, T8s is number 73 and 86s is number 110 by strength against a random hand.

**Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all**

| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| T8s | 13,323,000 | 1,432,000 | 5,792,000 |
| 86s | 5,792,000 | 1,432,000 | 13,323,000 |

Exact total: 12 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate.

**T8s against 86s 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 | 2.157 | 1.542 | 3.548 | 0.464 |
| 86s | 0.464 | 3.548 | 1.542 | 2.157 |

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

Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the best for T8s (73.11%); low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the worst (55.92%). T8s stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.

**T8s against 86s by flop texture, in percent**

| Flop | Share of flops | T8s wins | Ties | 86s wins | T8s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.254 | 69.895 | 6.422 | 23.683 | 73.106 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.654 | 53.729 | 4.380 | 41.891 | 55.919 |
| Two-tone | 46.543 | 64.611 | 5.558 | 29.831 | 67.390 |
| Monotone | 5.215 | 58.569 | 7.413 | 34.018 | 62.276 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 63.608 | 12.279 | 24.113 | 69.748 |

Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank.

## Compared with a random hand

How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 52.33%, T8s changes by +16.00 points, and 86s, from 46.24%, by -14.57.

**T8s and 86s 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 | 68.327 | 52.334 | +15.993 | 1.30559 |
| T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 73.106 | 52.334 | +20.772 | 1.39691 |
| T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 55.919 | 52.334 | +3.585 | 1.06850 |
| T8s, two-tone | 67.390 | 52.334 | +15.056 | 1.28769 |
| T8s, monotone | 62.276 | 52.334 | +9.942 | 1.18997 |
| T8s, paired | 69.748 | 52.334 | +17.414 | 1.33275 |
| 86s, all flops | 31.673 | 46.243 | -14.570 | 0.68493 |
| 86s, rainbow, ten or higher | 26.894 | 46.243 | -19.349 | 0.58158 |
| 86s, rainbow, nine or lower | 44.081 | 46.243 | -2.162 | 0.95325 |
| 86s, two-tone | 32.610 | 46.243 | -13.633 | 0.70519 |
| 86s, monotone | 37.724 | 46.243 | -8.519 | 0.81578 |
| 86s, paired | 30.252 | 46.243 | -15.991 | 0.65420 |

## Does a shared suit matter?

Every legal deal of T8s against 86s leaves the hands with no suit in common, so the suit split does not apply here.

**T8s against 86s by suit overlap, in percent**

| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | T8s wins | Ties | 86s wins | T8s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible |
| No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 64.841 | 6.971 | 28.188 | 68.327 |

## How often this matchup comes up

Exactly 12 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0007% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 24, or 0.0015%.

## A worked example

Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, T8s' average share is $136.66 (a gain of $36.66) and 86s' is $63.34 (a loss of $36.66).

Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 648 outright wins for T8s, 282 for 86s, and 70 split pots.

## The same matchup from the other side

The mirror image, 86s against T8s, is 31.67% to 68.33%, and its address redirects to this page.

## Keep exploring

Ts8s against 8h6h is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength.

- [Open Ts8s against 8h6h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=Ts8s&p2=8h6h)
- [T8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t8s.md)
- [86s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/86s.md)
- [T8s vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-76s.md)
- [T8s vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-75s.md)
- [T9o vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-86s.md)
- [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md)

## How this was computed

Method: exact enumeration. The 12 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board.

Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.

## Related

- [T8s vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-76s.md)
- [T8s vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-75s.md)
- [T9o vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-86s.md)