Pre-flop hand strength

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.

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.

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.

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.

Every PLO6 hand with two Aces, ranked: removing the broadway cards costs suited Aces about 2 percentile points and bare Aces about 29. With equity heads-up, in a bomb pot and against the top 30%.

The same two Aces rank anywhere from Top 0.02% to Top 52% of PLO6 hands. Rankings across PLO4, PLO5 and PLO6, why the suits decide it, and exact counts of Aces hands.

Right after the deal at a 6-max PLO6 table, someone holds AA 35.2% of the time. Exact odds for Hold'em, PLO4, PLO5 and PLO6 by table size, and how your own Ace changes them.

Two six-card Omaha hands with the same four side cards, Kings in one and Queens in the other: Top 3.79% vs Top 14.14% in PLO6, about 68/32 all-in, and a cliff at the Ten we can't fully explain.

In 6-max six-card Omaha the Button's reference opening range is the top 45%. Every one of the 962,988 PLO6 hand classes on one bar, and the hand exactly on the line: (KQ64)T7.

In six-card Omaha the same six ranks go from Top 7.2% triple-suited to Top 65.2% with all six in one suit. How suit distribution moves a PLO6 hand's rank, step by step.

PLO4 has 270,725 starting hands; PLO6 has 20,358,520. The exact count for Hold'em and every Omaha variant, and why nobody memorizes them.