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Engineered for Everyone.

The Story

I built SolvePLO because the PLO study landscape frustrated me.

I play PLO. I've played PLO for years. Like most serious players, I wanted to study GTO strategy — to understand what the solver says about the spots I play, so I could make better decisions at the table. But the options available were either too expensive, too limited, or too slow.

The gold-standard tool costs over $200 a month. That's reasonable if you're a PLO2000 regular clearing $15K+ a month. It's not reasonable if you're grinding PLO100 or PLO200, where $200/month is a meaningful chunk of your winrate. And at PLO50 or below, it's simply not justifiable.

I could run my own MonkerSolver simulations, but that requires days of compute time per sim on expensive hardware. I could use cheaper tools, but they covered a fraction of the boards I actually needed.

So I decided to build what I wanted: a tool with complete board coverage, instant results, and a price that makes sense for the stakes most players actually play.

The Technical Achievement

SolvePLO exists because of a specific technical achievement: I reverse-engineered MonkerSolver's proprietary binary format.

MonkerSolver is the most respected PLO solver engine in the world. It produces deeply accurate GTO solutions — but it outputs them in an undocumented, compressed binary format (.mkr files) that's designed to be read only by MonkerSolver's own software.

I spent months decoding that format. Byte by byte, I mapped the encoding scheme for strategy frequencies, the card indexing system, the action ordering, the DFS tree structure, and the compression layers. I wrote a complete parser that can read any MonkerSolver output and extract the full strategy data — preflop through river, every hand combination, every action frequency.

Then I precomputed solutions for all 1,755 isomorphic flop textures and built a web application to serve them.

The Mission

Democratize PLO GTO strategy.

The best solver data in PLO shouldn't be locked behind a $200/month paywall. It shouldn't require a $3,000 desktop running simulations for days. It shouldn't be limited to 420 board textures when 1,755 exist.

Every serious PLO player deserves access to complete, accurate, precomputed GTO solutions at a price they can afford. That's what SolvePLO provides.

We charge $60/month for Core — enough to sustain the product and continue building, but affordable for players at every stake level. And the free tier ensures you can always try before you buy.