TT
81.62%
Wins 81.38%, ties 0.49%
88
18.38%
Wins 18.13%, ties 0.49%
TT against 88: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TT | 81.380 | 0.488 | 18.132 | 81.624 |
| 88 | 18.132 | 0.488 | 81.380 | 18.376 |
Two pocket pairs meet here: TT against 88. Both hands are pairs, so the bigger pair is ahead on every board that does not pair a card below it.
A gap this wide means 88 is in trouble before the flop and has few good runouts. Ties are part of the picture: 0.49% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win.
Ranked by equity against a random hand, TT is number 5 of the 169 starting hands and 88 is number 7.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| TT | 50,165,000 | 301,000 | 11,177,000 |
| 88 | 11,177,000 | 301,000 | 50,165,000 |
Exact total: 36 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TT | 4.442 | 1.229 | 5.515 | 0.225 |
| 88 | 0.225 | 5.515 | 1.229 | 4.442 |
The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call.
Who is ahead on which flops
Across the five flop textures TT's equity moves by 16.88 points, from 69.56% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 86.44% on paired flops. TT stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.
| Flop | Share of flops | TT wins | Ties | 88 wins | TT equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 84.145 | 0.264 | 15.591 | 84.277 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 69.199 | 0.719 | 30.082 | 69.558 |
| Two-tone | 46.363 | 80.494 | 0.346 | 19.160 | 80.667 |
| Monotone | 5.152 | 75.065 | 1.742 | 23.193 | 75.936 |
| Paired | 17.576 | 86.075 | 0.724 | 13.201 | 86.437 |
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
A random hand would give TT 75.01% and 88 69.16%. Against each other the change is +6.61 points for TT and -50.78 for 88.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TT, all flops | 81.624 | 75.012 | +6.612 | 1.08815 |
| TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 84.277 | 75.012 | +9.265 | 1.12351 |
| TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 69.558 | 75.012 | -5.454 | 0.92729 |
| TT, two-tone | 80.667 | 75.012 | +5.655 | 1.07539 |
| TT, monotone | 75.936 | 75.012 | +0.924 | 1.01232 |
| TT, paired | 86.437 | 75.012 | +11.425 | 1.15231 |
| 88, all flops | 18.376 | 69.163 | -50.787 | 0.26569 |
| 88, rainbow, ten or higher | 15.723 | 69.163 | -53.440 | 0.22733 |
| 88, rainbow, nine or lower | 30.442 | 69.163 | -38.721 | 0.44015 |
| 88, two-tone | 19.333 | 69.163 | -49.830 | 0.27953 |
| 88, monotone | 24.064 | 69.163 | -45.099 | 0.34793 |
| 88, paired | 13.563 | 69.163 | -55.600 | 0.19610 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, TT has 81.76%; looking only at deals where they do not, 80.94%. TT does better with a shared suit, by 0.82 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | TT wins | Ties | 88 wins | TT equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 30 | 83.33 | 81.509 | 0.504 | 17.987 | 81.761 |
| No shared suit | 6 | 16.67 | 80.736 | 0.409 | 18.855 | 80.940 |
How often this matchup comes up
How often does it happen? 36 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0022%) are TT against 88, and 72 (0.0044%) if either hand may sit in either seat.
A worked example
Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: TT averages $163.24 back, ahead of its $100 by $63.24, while 88 averages $36.76, short of its $100 by $63.24.
Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 814 wins for TT, 181 for 88 and 5 chopped pots.
The same matchup from the other side
If you came looking for 88 against TT, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 18.38% and 81.62%.
Keep exploring
Try TsTh against 8d8c 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
The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 36 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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