Pair of eights has 69.2% against a random hand, the 7th best of the 169 starting hands. Below are its odds against every hand and on the flop, and what the charts do with it from each seat.
88 ranks 7th of the 169 starting hands by against a random hand, in the top 4% of hand classes. Classes have different numbers of card combinations; this is not a deal-frequency percentile. First in at 100bb, the charts say: raise from every seat.
Against one random hand, 88 has and AA has 85.20%: 16.04 percentage points less for 88.
against one to eight random opponents
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━ 88: 69.16%
┄ AA: 85.20%
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Equity by number of random opponents
Opponents
88
AA
1
69.16%
85.20%
2
50.11%
73.27%
3
37.54%
63.90%
4
29.76%
55.94%
5
23.94%
49.15%
6
20.65%
43.51%
7
17.70%
38.82%
8
15.71%
34.78%
The one-opponent values are exact. Two to eight opponents use 100,000 seeded deals per point; small differences can be sampling noise. All opponents have random hands. These curves do not measure profit or account for position, betting or opponents folding.
88 on the flop
The best five-card hand 88 holds after the flop, over all 19,600 flops. Pairs on the board count.
One pair71.8%
Two pair16.2%
Three of a kind10.8%
Full house1.0%
Four of a kind0.2%
Draws on the flop, counted only when the hand has not already made that straight or flush or better.
Flush draw2.2%
Open-ended straight draw1.3%
Gutshot3.9%
How to play 88
A pocket pair is made before the flop. It flops a set or better on 12.0% of flops; the rest of the time it plays as one pair.
First in
Raise from every seat.
Facing a raise
3-bet from middle position, the cutoff and the button; 3-bet 75% and call 25% from the small blind; 3-bet 60% and call 40% from the big blind.
Facing a 3-bet
Call from every seat.
From the six-handed 100bb charts. A percentage means the chart mixes actions with this hand.
Six-handed cash charts at 100 big blinds. A spot marked mix plays 88 more than one way.
Where these numbers come from
Heads-up equity comes from the same preflop table the odds calculator uses, which averages each pair of hands over every board and suit pattern. Against a random hand, your own two cards make some hands less likely: holding an ace leaves three aces for the other player, so each hand counts once for every way it can still be dealt. Equity against several players is sampled with a fixed seed, so it can move by a few tenths of a point from the exact figure. The flop figures count every one of the 19,600 flops.
