Question on correct number of outs.

[Tom1975]

An "out" is generally considered to be a single card which will improve your hand to the best hand, so in this case, the four 'eights' are the only single cards which do this. Now if a nine or ten were to hit the turn, this would increase his number of outs to 12, but as of the flop it's correct to say he only has four outs.