--- title: "TT vs T8s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-t8s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-t8s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "TT is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 83.62% to 16.38% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-t9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-98s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-t8s.md"] --- # TT vs T8s: preflop equity TT is a big favorite over T8s before the flop: 83.62% to 16.38% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, TT is ahead of T8s by 67.24 points of equity, 83.62% to 16.38%. ## TT against T8s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for TT against T8s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 82.212 | 2.807 | 14.981 | 83.616 | | T8s | 14.981 | 2.807 | 82.212 | 16.384 | Here a pocket pair (TT) meets a suited hand (T8s). The non-pair hand shares a rank with the pair, so two of its outs for pairing are blocked by the pair itself. That is a heavy lead: T8s needs the board to help it on most runouts and still falls behind far more often than not. Ties are part of the picture: 2.81% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. Among the 169 starting hands, TT is number 5 and T8s is number 73 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 16,893,000 | 577,000 | 3,078,000 | | T8s | 3,078,000 | 577,000 | 16,893,000 | 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. **TT against T8s 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 | 5.104 | 1.216 | 6.675 | 0.196 | | T8s | 0.196 | 6.675 | 1.216 | 5.104 | 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 87.55% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and 74.79% on monotone flops. TT stays ahead on all five textures. **TT against T8s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | TT wins | Ties | T8s wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.740 | 86.061 | 2.977 | 10.962 | 87.549 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 82.096 | 2.825 | 15.079 | 83.509 | | Two-tone | 46.236 | 80.714 | 2.693 | 16.593 | 82.060 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 73.143 | 3.292 | 23.565 | 74.789 | | Paired | 17.831 | 83.638 | 2.731 | 13.631 | 85.003 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +8.61 points for TT, from 75.01%, and -35.95 for T8s, from 52.33%. **TT and T8s 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 | 83.616 | 75.012 | +8.604 | 1.11470 | | TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 87.549 | 75.012 | +12.537 | 1.16713 | | TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 83.509 | 75.012 | +8.497 | 1.11328 | | TT, two-tone | 82.060 | 75.012 | +7.048 | 1.09396 | | TT, monotone | 74.789 | 75.012 | -0.223 | 0.99703 | | TT, paired | 85.003 | 75.012 | +9.991 | 1.13319 | | T8s, all flops | 16.384 | 52.334 | -35.950 | 0.31307 | | T8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 12.451 | 52.334 | -39.883 | 0.23791 | | T8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 16.491 | 52.334 | -35.843 | 0.31511 | | T8s, two-tone | 17.940 | 52.334 | -34.394 | 0.34280 | | T8s, monotone | 25.211 | 52.334 | -27.123 | 0.48173 | | T8s, paired | 14.997 | 52.334 | -37.337 | 0.28656 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Every legal deal of TT against T8s leaves the hands with no suit in common, so the suit split does not apply here. **TT against T8s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | TT wins | Ties | T8s wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 82.212 | 2.807 | 14.981 | 83.616 | ## 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 Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, TT's average share is $167.24 (a gain of $67.24) and T8s' is $32.76 (a loss of $67.24). Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 822 for TT, 150 for T8s and 28 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get T8s with 16.38% against TT with 83.62%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in TsTh against Td8d, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength. - [Open TsTh against Td8d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=TsTh&p2=Td8d) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [T8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t8s.md) - [TT vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-t9o.md) - [TT vs 98s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-98s.md) - [99 vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-t8s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 12 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [TT vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-t9o.md) - [TT vs 98s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-98s.md) - [99 vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-t8s.md)