--- schema: poketpoker.hand/1 id: Ac8s class: A8o class_rank: 30 class_of: 169 percentile: 0.1569 combos_in_class: 12 equivalent_ids: [Ac8d, Ac8h, Ad8c, Ad8h, Ad8s, Ah8c, Ah8d, Ah8s, As8c, As8d, As8h] suited: false paired: false flush_suits: [clubs, spades] headline: { win: 58.40, tie: 2.98, equity: 59.89 } engine: { name: poker-engine, version: 1.9.0 } canonical_url: https://poketpoker.com/hands/Ac8s.md paid_record: https://poketpoker.com/api/hands/Ac8s price_usd: 0.01 license: CC-BY-4.0 --- # Ac8s — ace-eight offsuit **Open-raise from the button onward; fold it in earlier seats.** Ac8s ranks 30 of the 169 distinct starting hands (top 15.7%). Against one random hand it wins 58.40% of showdowns and takes 59.89% of the pot. ## What this hand is Ace-eight offsuit. Before any board card is dealt its odds are identical to Ac8d, Ac8h, Ad8c, Ad8h, Ad8s, Ah8c, Ah8d, Ah8s, As8c, As8d, As8h — suits are interchangeable pre-flop, so all 12 combinations in class A8o 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 | 58.40 | 2.98 | 59.89 | | 2 | 38.68 | 3.58 | 40.39 | | 3 | 28.32 | 3.58 | 30.00 | | 4 | 21.82 | 3.52 | 23.45 | | 5 | 17.62 | 3.44 | 19.20 | | 6 | 14.61 | 3.33 | 16.14 | | 7 | 12.22 | 3.24 | 13.69 | 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 | 6.65 | 5.97 | 1.37 | 3 | | KK | 28.33 | 28.15 | 0.37 | 6 | | QQ | 28.45 | 28.27 | 0.36 | 6 | | JJ | 28.33 | 28.15 | 0.35 | 6 | | TT | 28.22 | 28.05 | 0.35 | 6 | | 77 | 43.53 | 43.35 | 0.36 | 6 | | 22 | 47.50 | 47.22 | 0.56 | 6 | | AKs | 24.90 | 22.64 | 4.51 | 3 | | AKo | 26.07 | 23.70 | 4.73 | 9 | | AQs | 25.46 | 22.65 | 5.61 | 3 | | JTs | 52.45 | 52.24 | 0.42 | 4 | | 76s | 58.90 | 58.70 | 0.41 | 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/Ac8s $0.01 USDC (x402) ## Related - Suit-equivalents: [Ac8d](Ac8d.md) · [Ac8h](Ac8h.md) · [Ad8c](Ad8c.md) · [Ad8h](Ad8h.md) · [Ad8s](Ad8s.md) · [Ah8c](Ah8c.md) · [Ah8d](Ah8d.md) · [Ah8s](Ah8s.md) · [As8c](As8c.md) · [As8d](As8d.md) · [As8h](As8h.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.