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title: "T8s vs 87s: preflop equity"
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summary: "T8s is a big favorite over 87s before the flop: 67.96% to 32.04% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit."
related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-86s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-87s.md"]
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# T8s vs 87s: preflop equity

T8s is a big favorite over 87s before the flop: 67.96% to 32.04% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit.

Counting every board, the equity split is 67.96% for T8s and 32.04% for 87s, so T8s leads by 35.92 points.

## T8s against 87s: the numbers

**Exact preflop results for T8s against 87s, in percent**

| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| T8s | 64.511 | 6.902 | 28.587 | 67.962 |
| 87s | 28.587 | 6.902 | 64.511 | 32.038 |

This is a contest between two suited hands, T8s and 87s. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up.

A lead of 35.92 points is large but not decisive: 87s still takes about 286 of every 1,000 deals. Ties are 6.90% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot.

Place 73 of 169 belongs to T8s and place 100 belongs to 87s in the ranking 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 | 13,255,000 | 1,418,000 | 5,874,000 |
| 87s | 5,874,000 | 1,418,000 | 13,255,000 |

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 87s 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 | 2.121 | 1.550 | 3.498 | 0.471 |
| 87s | 0.471 | 3.498 | 1.550 | 2.121 |

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

T8s prefers rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, where it holds 72.25%, and likes low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) least, where it holds 57.52%. T8s stays ahead on all five textures.

**T8s against 87s by flop texture, in percent**

| Flop | Share of flops | T8s wins | Ties | 87s wins | T8s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.254 | 69.067 | 6.360 | 24.573 | 72.247 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.654 | 55.426 | 4.196 | 40.378 | 57.524 |
| Two-tone | 46.543 | 64.280 | 5.486 | 30.234 | 67.023 |
| Monotone | 5.215 | 58.299 | 7.369 | 34.332 | 61.983 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 63.323 | 12.238 | 24.439 | 69.442 |

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

The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +15.63 points for T8s, from 52.33%, and -15.90 for 87s, from 47.94%.

**T8s and 87s 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 | 67.962 | 52.334 | +15.628 | 1.29862 |
| T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 72.247 | 52.334 | +19.913 | 1.38050 |
| T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 57.524 | 52.334 | +5.190 | 1.09917 |
| T8s, two-tone | 67.023 | 52.334 | +14.689 | 1.28068 |
| T8s, monotone | 61.983 | 52.334 | +9.649 | 1.18437 |
| T8s, paired | 69.442 | 52.334 | +17.108 | 1.32690 |
| 87s, all flops | 32.038 | 47.936 | -15.898 | 0.66835 |
| 87s, rainbow, ten or higher | 27.753 | 47.936 | -20.183 | 0.57896 |
| 87s, rainbow, nine or lower | 42.476 | 47.936 | -5.460 | 0.88610 |
| 87s, two-tone | 32.977 | 47.936 | -14.959 | 0.68794 |
| 87s, monotone | 38.017 | 47.936 | -9.919 | 0.79308 |
| 87s, paired | 30.558 | 47.936 | -17.378 | 0.63747 |

## Does a shared suit matter?

Suits do not split this matchup, because no legal deal has the hands holding the same suit.

**T8s against 87s by suit overlap, in percent**

| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | T8s wins | Ties | 87s wins | T8s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible |
| No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 64.511 | 6.902 | 28.587 | 67.962 |

## How often this matchup comes up

You will meet this exact matchup 0.0015% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 24 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order.

## A worked example

A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says T8s gets $135.92 of it on average and 87s gets $64.08.

Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 645 wins for T8s, 286 for 87s and 69 chopped pots.

## The same matchup from the other side

87s versus T8s is this same page seen from the other hand: 32.04% for 87s, 67.96% for T8s.

## Keep exploring

Open the calculator with Ts8s against 8h7h already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking.

- [Open Ts8s against 8h7h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=Ts8s&p2=8h7h)
- [T8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t8s.md)
- [87s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/87s.md)
- [T8s vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-86s.md)
- [T8s vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-76s.md)
- [T9o vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-87s.md)
- [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md)

## How this was computed

Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 12 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops.

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

## Related

- [T8s vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-86s.md)
- [T8s vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-76s.md)
- [T9o vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-87s.md)