--- schema: poketpoker.hand/1 id: 9h8h class: 98s class_rank: 83 class_of: 169 percentile: 0.4615 combos_in_class: 4 equivalent_ids: [9c8c, 9d8d, 9s8s] suited: true paired: false flush_suits: [hearts] headline: { win: 48.80, tie: 3.89, equity: 50.75 } engine: { name: poker-engine, version: 1.9.0 } canonical_url: https://poketpoker.com/hands/9h8h.md paid_record: https://poketpoker.com/api/hands/9h8h price_usd: 0.01 license: CC-BY-4.0 --- # 9h8h — nine-eight of hearts **Open-raise from the hijack onward; fold it in earlier seats.** 9h8h ranks 83 of the 169 distinct starting hands (top 46.2%). Against one random hand it wins 48.80% of showdowns and takes 50.75% of the pot. ## What this hand is Nine-eight of hearts. Before any board card is dealt its odds are identical to 9c8c, 9d8d, 9s8s — suits are interchangeable pre-flop, so all 4 combinations in class 98s share the numbers below. That stops being true the moment the board has suits, which is what the paid record covers. ## Equity against random opponents | Opponents | Win % | Tie % | Pot equity % | | --------- | ----- | ----- | ------------ | | 1 | 48.80 | 3.89 | 50.75 | | 2 | 34.45 | 3.23 | 35.90 | | 3 | 27.14 | 2.90 | 28.43 | | 4 | 22.34 | 2.75 | 23.57 | | 5 | 19.13 | 2.62 | 20.31 | | 6 | 16.66 | 2.54 | 17.81 | | 7 | 14.87 | 2.42 | 15.96 | Monte Carlo, 400,000 trials per row, seed 1 — same seed, same digits. "Pot equity" counts outright wins plus a share of split pots, which is the number to compare against pot odds. ## Head-to-head, exact Against the opponent's whole hand class, not one chosen pair of cards: every combination of it you do not block, each enumerated over all 1,712,304 boards. No sampling. "Combos" is how many were averaged. | Against | Hero pot equity % | Hero win % | Split % | Combos | | ------- | ----------------- | ---------- | ------- | ------ | | AA | 22.06 | 21.89 | 0.35 | 6 | | KK | 21.75 | 21.56 | 0.38 | 6 | | QQ | 21.01 | 20.82 | 0.38 | 6 | | JJ | 19.69 | 19.49 | 0.40 | 6 | | TT | 18.30 | 18.07 | 0.47 | 6 | | 77 | 49.00 | 48.65 | 0.70 | 6 | | 22 | 53.43 | 52.41 | 2.03 | 6 | | AKs | 37.12 | 36.88 | 0.48 | 4 | | AKo | 39.67 | 39.45 | 0.44 | 12 | | AQs | 38.15 | 37.91 | 0.48 | 4 | | JTs | 35.30 | 34.72 | 1.16 | 4 | | 76s | 64.02 | 62.67 | 2.70 | 4 | Averaging matters here. Against a single representative the answer shifts with the suits — J♣T♣ takes 17.77% against Q♣Q♦ but 18.89% against Q♠Q♦, because the shared club both blocks a flush and removes cards. Averaged over the class the figure is the same whichever suits you hold, which is what makes it quotable. ## What this page cannot tell you Pre-flop equity is not a strategy. It ignores stack depth, bet sizing, and how your opponents actually play. The verdict above is a conventional opening chart, not solver output. Equity against a random hand is also not equity against a range: an opponent who raises has better than random cards, and this page does not model that. ## The full record Equity against modelled ranges (top 5/10/20/40%), position-by-position guidance, and the suit-specific analysis for this exact combination: GET https://poketpoker.com/api/hands/9h8h $0.01 USDC (x402) ## Related - Suit-equivalents: [9c8c](9c8c.md) · [9d8d](9d8d.md) · [9s8s](9s8s.md) - All 1,326 hands: [index](index.md) - URL convention: `/hands/.md`, higher rank first, suits ordered c, d, h, s. So `2d2s`, never `2s2d` — any hand can be addressed directly, without consulting the index. - Licence: CC-BY-4.0 — reuse freely with attribution to https://poketpoker.com.