Pot-Limit Omaha · The math
The math behind Pot-Limit Omaha
We ranked all 962,988 PLO6 hand classes by simulating 48.1 billion hands — then turned that into clear rankings and equities, so you study the patterns, not memorize tables.
962,988
PLO6 hand classes we ranked
48.1 billion
hands simulated to build the PLO6 ranking
20,358,520
raw PLO6 starting hands (exact)
Latest articles
Is Top 23% really 23%? The error bars of the PLO6 hand ranking →
We ranked the PLO6 top 30% three times. The error bar grows from ±0.03 points in the Top 1% to ±0.48 in the Top 20-30%, and thousands of hands sit on the edge of every opening range.
Flush dominance in PLO6: the same hands, different suits, a different favourite →
When two PLO6 hands share a suit, the higher card of it holds the dominant flush. In 97 of 300 all-ins the favourite changed with the suits alone; two good PLO6 hands share a suit 79% of the time.
6-Card Omaha (PLO6): how it differs from PLO4 and PLO5 →
What changes in 6-card Omaha: 20,358,520 starting hands, flushes and Aces far more often, suits and gaps that decide more all-ins. Every number measured by our PLO6 engine.
What does a gap cost your PLO6 hand? It depends on the high card →
Every PLO6 hand with six different ranks, ranked by high card, suits and gaps. The same hole costs an A-high hand 1.4 percentile points and a Q-high hand 5.7; more suits make gaps cheaper.
We simulated 48.1 billion hands to rank every one of the
962,988 PLO6 hand classes — where established references stop,
we computed it ourselves.
See how we
calculated our PLO6 ranking →
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