T8s
62.32%
Wins 61.38%, ties 1.87%
97s
37.68%
Wins 36.75%, ties 1.87%
T8s against 97s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T8s | 61.382 | 1.867 | 36.751 | 62.315 |
| 97s | 36.751 | 1.867 | 61.382 | 37.685 |
T8s meets 97s, and both are suited hands. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other.
T8s is ahead, but 97s is far from dead: it takes 367 of every 1,000 deals outright. 1.87% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that.
Among the 169 starting hands, T8s is number 73 and 97s is number 94 by strength against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| T8s | 16,817,000 | 511,000 | 10,069,000 |
| 97s | 10,069,000 | 511,000 | 16,817,000 |
Exact total: 16 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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T8s | 1.654 | 1.629 | 2.721 | 0.605 |
| 97s | 0.605 | 2.721 | 1.629 | 1.654 |
The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity.
Who is ahead on which flops
Across the five flop textures T8s' equity moves by 18.40 points, from 47.88% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 66.28% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. The overall edge for T8s hides low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where 97s comes out in front.
| Flop | Share of flops | T8s wins | Ties | 97s wins | T8s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 65.628 | 1.295 | 33.077 | 66.275 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 47.776 | 0.202 | 52.022 | 47.877 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.285 | 0.990 | 37.725 | 61.780 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 57.373 | 3.889 | 38.738 | 59.317 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 61.148 | 5.038 | 33.814 | 63.667 |
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
Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts T8s from 52.33% by +9.99 points and 97s from 49.12% by -11.44 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T8s, all flops | 62.315 | 52.334 | +9.981 | 1.19072 |
| T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 66.275 | 52.334 | +13.941 | 1.26639 |
| T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 47.877 | 52.334 | -4.457 | 0.91484 |
| T8s, two-tone | 61.780 | 52.334 | +9.446 | 1.18049 |
| T8s, monotone | 59.317 | 52.334 | +6.983 | 1.13343 |
| T8s, paired | 63.667 | 52.334 | +11.333 | 1.21655 |
| 97s, all flops | 37.685 | 49.118 | -11.433 | 0.76723 |
| 97s, rainbow, ten or higher | 33.725 | 49.118 | -15.393 | 0.68661 |
| 97s, rainbow, nine or lower | 52.123 | 49.118 | +3.005 | 1.06118 |
| 97s, two-tone | 38.220 | 49.118 | -10.898 | 0.77813 |
| 97s, monotone | 40.683 | 49.118 | -8.435 | 0.82827 |
| 97s, paired | 36.333 | 49.118 | -12.785 | 0.73971 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Of the deals of this matchup, 4 share a suit (T8s at 64.73%) and 12 do not (61.51%). T8s does better with a shared suit, by 3.22 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | T8s wins | Ties | 97s wins | T8s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 63.720 | 2.018 | 34.262 | 64.729 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 60.603 | 1.816 | 37.581 | 61.511 |
How often this matchup comes up
This page stands for 16 specific-card matchups (0.0010% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 32 once you count the seats both ways (0.0020%).
A worked example
Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. T8s averages $124.64 from the $200, up $24.64; 97s averages $75.36, down $24.64.
Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 614 wins for T8s, 367 for 97s and 19 chopped pots.
The same matchup from the other side
97s versus T8s is this same page seen from the other hand: 37.68% for 97s, 62.32% for T8s.
Keep exploring
Ts8s against 9h7h 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.
How this was computed
The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 16 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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