--- title: "TT vs 98s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-98s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-98s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "TT is a big favorite over 98s before the flop: 81.70% to 18.30% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-22.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-97s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-98s.md"] --- # TT vs 98s: preflop equity TT is a big favorite over 98s before the flop: 81.70% to 18.30% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, TT takes 81.70% of the pot on average and 98s takes the other 18.30%. ## TT against 98s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for TT against 98s, in percent** | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | 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. **TT against 98s read as odds** | 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. **TT against 98s by flop texture, in percent** | 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. **TT and 98s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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. **TT against 98s by suit overlap, in percent** | 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. - [Open TsTh against 9d8d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=TsTh&p2=9d8d) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [98s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/98s.md) - [TT vs 22](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-22.md) - [TT vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-97s.md) - [99 vs 98s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-98s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## 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. ## Related - [TT vs 22: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-22.md) - [TT vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-97s.md) - [99 vs 98s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-98s.md)