--- schema: poketpoker.hand/1 id: Ac8c class: A8s class_rank: 21 class_of: 169 percentile: 0.1041 combos_in_class: 4 equivalent_ids: [Ad8d, Ah8h, As8s] suited: true paired: false flush_suits: [clubs] headline: { win: 60.52, tie: 2.86, equity: 61.95 } engine: { name: poker-engine, version: 1.9.0 } canonical_url: https://poketpoker.com/hands/Ac8c.md paid_record: https://poketpoker.com/api/hands/Ac8c price_usd: 0.01 license: CC-BY-4.0 --- # Ac8c — ace-eight of clubs **Open-raise from the hijack onward; fold it in earlier seats.** Ac8c ranks 21 of the 169 distinct starting hands (top 10.4%). Against one random hand it wins 60.52% of showdowns and takes 61.95% of the pot. ## What this hand is Ace-eight of clubs. Before any board card is dealt its odds are identical to Ad8d, Ah8h, As8s — suits are interchangeable pre-flop, so all 4 combinations in class A8s 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 | 60.52 | 2.86 | 61.95 | | 2 | 41.86 | 3.43 | 43.49 | | 3 | 31.89 | 3.43 | 33.49 | | 4 | 25.72 | 3.37 | 27.28 | | 5 | 21.72 | 3.27 | 23.22 | | 6 | 18.83 | 3.17 | 20.28 | | 7 | 16.52 | 3.08 | 17.92 | 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 | 11.97 | 11.32 | 1.30 | 3 | | KK | 31.93 | 31.73 | 0.39 | 6 | | QQ | 32.04 | 31.85 | 0.39 | 6 | | JJ | 31.93 | 31.74 | 0.38 | 6 | | TT | 31.83 | 31.65 | 0.37 | 6 | | 77 | 46.28 | 46.09 | 0.39 | 6 | | 22 | 50.02 | 49.72 | 0.61 | 6 | | AKs | 29.06 | 26.92 | 4.28 | 3 | | AKo | 30.32 | 28.07 | 4.50 | 9 | | AQs | 29.59 | 26.92 | 5.35 | 3 | | JTs | 55.25 | 55.01 | 0.47 | 4 | | 76s | 61.42 | 61.19 | 0.46 | 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/Ac8c $0.01 USDC (x402) ## Related - Suit-equivalents: [Ad8d](Ad8d.md) · [Ah8h](Ah8h.md) · [As8s](As8s.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.