TT
81.70%
Wins 81.46%, ties 0.47%
98s
18.30%
Wins 18.07%, ties 0.47%
TT against 98s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TT | 81.463 | 0.469 | 18.068 | 81.698 |
| 98s | 18.068 | 0.469 | 81.463 | 18.302 |
TT is a pocket pair and 98s is a suited hand. Here a pair faces two cards that are both smaller, so the other hand needs to pair up and still be behind.
This is one of the lopsided matchups: 98s wins only 18.07% of the boards outright. 0.47% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that.
TT ranks number 5 of 169 starting hands, and 98s ranks number 83, by equity against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| TT | 33,477,000 | 193,000 | 7,425,000 |
| 98s | 7,425,000 | 193,000 | 33,477,000 |
The board total is exact, 24 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TT | 4.464 | 1.228 | 5.535 | 0.224 |
| 98s | 0.224 | 5.535 | 1.228 | 4.464 |
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
If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: TT holds 85.69% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and 75.37% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). TT stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | TT wins | Ties | 98s wins | TT equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 85.564 | 0.251 | 14.185 | 85.689 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 75.107 | 0.520 | 24.373 | 75.367 |
| Two-tone | 46.545 | 79.734 | 0.285 | 19.981 | 79.876 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 74.368 | 2.390 | 23.242 | 75.563 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 84.738 | 0.674 | 14.588 | 85.075 |
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
Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 75.01% for TT, 50.80% for 98s. Here the change is +6.69 and -32.50 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TT, all flops | 81.698 | 75.012 | +6.686 | 1.08913 |
| TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 85.689 | 75.012 | +10.677 | 1.14234 |
| TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 75.367 | 75.012 | +0.355 | 1.00473 |
| TT, two-tone | 79.876 | 75.012 | +4.864 | 1.06484 |
| TT, monotone | 75.563 | 75.012 | +0.551 | 1.00735 |
| TT, paired | 85.075 | 75.012 | +10.063 | 1.13415 |
| 98s, all flops | 18.302 | 50.801 | -32.499 | 0.36027 |
| 98s, rainbow, ten or higher | 14.311 | 50.801 | -36.490 | 0.28171 |
| 98s, rainbow, nine or lower | 24.633 | 50.801 | -26.168 | 0.48489 |
| 98s, two-tone | 20.124 | 50.801 | -30.677 | 0.39613 |
| 98s, monotone | 24.437 | 50.801 | -26.364 | 0.48103 |
| 98s, paired | 14.925 | 50.801 | -35.876 | 0.29379 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, TT has 82.25%; looking only at deals where they do not, 81.14%. TT does better with a shared suit, by 1.11 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | TT wins | Ties | 98s wins | TT equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 81.999 | 0.510 | 17.491 | 82.254 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 80.927 | 0.427 | 18.646 | 81.141 |
How often this matchup comes up
Exactly 24 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0015% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 48, or 0.0030%.
A worked example
A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says TT gets $163.40 of it on average and 98s gets $36.60.
Per 1,000 deals: TT wins about 814, 98s wins about 181, and about 5 end in a split pot.
The same matchup from the other side
One page covers both views. From 98s' side the equity is 18.30%, and from TT's side it is 81.70%.
Keep exploring
Open the calculator with TsTh against 9d8d 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.
How this was computed
The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 24 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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