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Stud 8 equity calculator (Stud hi-lo)

A free Stud 8 (Stud hi-lo) equity calculator: your share of the pot, split into high and low, against your opponents' up cards. No sign-up needed.

Example

A-2-3 (ace and deuce down, three up) against one opponent showing a King: 58.0% equity (estimate from 60,000 random deals, ±0.4 points). Open this example

Stud 8 equity: the basics

Stud 8 is Seven Card Stud with the pot split between the best high hand and the best low hand. A low must be five cards of different ranks, 8 or lower (aces count low). If nobody has one, the best high hand wins the whole pot.

Equity counts pot shares. Winning only the low half is 50% of that pot; tying for the low with one other player while someone else wins the high gets you a quarter. That is why scooping (winning both halves) matters so much.

The result shows how often you win the high half, how often you win the low half, and how often no low is made, so you can see where your equity comes from.

Up cards of folded players are dead: enter them under "Dead cards". Opponents' down cards are dealt at random from what is left.

How this calculator works

• It uses the same hand rules as PokerToast's Bot Lab and Research Calculator; automated tests check that it ranks hands exactly like the site's main hand evaluator.
• When the unknown cards can be dealt in few enough ways, it checks every one of them and the answer is exact. Otherwise it deals them at random many times and shows an estimate with its margin of error.
• Opponents' unknown cards are dealt at random (any hand), not from a guessed range. Ranges, street-by-street equity and solver advice for every betting line are in the full Calculator on PokerToast.
• For a heads-up spot you also get one tip from PokerToast's own limit Stud 8 solver, when it is loaded and has learned the spot.

Go further

A free PokerToast account opens the Research Calculator (ranges and every hand an opponent could hold) and the Bot Lab, where you play against bots and see what the solver would do.

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