T9s
67.01%
Wins 60.01%, ties 13.99%
T8s
32.99%
Wins 26.00%, ties 13.99%
T9s against T8s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T9s | 60.011 | 13.994 | 25.995 | 67.008 |
| T8s | 25.995 | 13.994 | 60.011 | 32.992 |
The matchup is suited hands on both sides, T9s against T8s. 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 34.02 points is large but not decisive: T8s still takes about 260 of every 1,000 deals. Ties are 13.99% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot.
Place 64 of 169 belongs to T9s and place 73 belongs to T8s in the ranking against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| T9s | 12,331,000 | 2,875,000 | 5,341,000 |
| T8s | 5,341,000 | 2,875,000 | 12,331,000 |
The board total is exact, 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T9s | 2.031 | 1.666 | 3.847 | 0.492 |
| T8s | 0.492 | 3.847 | 1.666 | 2.031 |
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
By flop texture, T9s' equity runs from 62.12% on monotone flops up to 70.35% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. T9s stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | T9s wins | Ties | T8s wins | T9s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.526 | 63.412 | 13.874 | 22.714 | 70.349 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.383 | 66.198 | 3.326 | 30.476 | 67.861 |
| Two-tone | 46.543 | 61.943 | 10.478 | 27.579 | 67.182 |
| Monotone | 5.215 | 56.856 | 10.522 | 32.622 | 62.117 |
| Paired | 17.333 | 48.685 | 28.576 | 22.739 | 62.973 |
Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank.
Compared with a random hand
A random hand would give T9s 54.03% and T8s 52.33%. Against each other the change is +12.98 points for T9s and -19.34 for T8s.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T9s, all flops | 67.008 | 54.028 | +12.980 | 1.24025 |
| T9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.349 | 54.028 | +16.321 | 1.30208 |
| T9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 67.861 | 54.028 | +13.833 | 1.25603 |
| T9s, two-tone | 67.182 | 54.028 | +13.154 | 1.24347 |
| T9s, monotone | 62.117 | 54.028 | +8.089 | 1.14972 |
| T9s, paired | 62.973 | 54.028 | +8.945 | 1.16556 |
| T8s, all flops | 32.992 | 52.334 | -19.342 | 0.63041 |
| T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.651 | 52.334 | -22.683 | 0.56657 |
| T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 32.139 | 52.334 | -20.195 | 0.61411 |
| T8s, two-tone | 32.818 | 52.334 | -19.516 | 0.62709 |
| T8s, monotone | 37.883 | 52.334 | -14.451 | 0.72387 |
| T8s, paired | 37.027 | 52.334 | -15.307 | 0.70751 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Every legal deal of T9s against T8s leaves the hands with no suit in common, so the suit split does not apply here.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | T9s wins | Ties | T8s wins | T9s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible |
| No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 60.011 | 13.994 | 25.995 | 67.008 |
How often this matchup comes up
This page stands for 12 specific-card matchups (0.0007% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 24 once you count the seats both ways (0.0015%).
A worked example
Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: T9s averages $134.02 back, ahead of its $100 by $34.02, while T8s averages $65.98, short of its $100 by $34.02.
A thousand deals look like this: T9s takes 600, T8s takes 260, 140 are ties.
The same matchup from the other side
Swap the hands and you get T8s with 32.99% against T9s with 67.01%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first.
Keep exploring
Ts9s against Th8h 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 12 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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