PLO Hand Equity Calculator

Equity is your share of the pot if the hand were run to showdown — the percentage of the time you win, plus your share of split pots. 60% equity heads-up means you win, on average, 60 times out of 100.

In Omaha you must use exactly two of your hole cards, which compresses equities: hands run closer together than in Hold’em, so pre-flop edges are smaller. A matchup that is 70/30 in Hold’em is often nearer 60/40 in PLO, and even aces are rarely more than a modest favourite four-handed. This is why position, playability and nut potential matter more in PLO than raw pre-flop strength.

Pot odds are the price you are getting to call — the bet you must pay relative to the total pot after you call. Convert that to a percentage and compare it with your equity: if your equity to win exceeds the share you must pay, calling is profitable on a pure-odds basis. Facing a half-pot bet you risk about 25% of the final pot, so you need roughly 25% equity to continue, before factoring in implied and reverse-implied odds.

An out is any unseen card that improves you to the likely best hand. The Hold’em shortcut — about 4% per out on the flop with two cards to come, 2% per out on the turn — is only a rough estimate and tends to overstate equity in PLO. Omaha draws often share cards, some outs make a strong but second-best hand, and opponents frequently hold redraws, so the exact enumeration here is far more reliable than counting outs.

Yes. Switch the variant to PLO4, PLO5 or PLO6 — or NLHE and Short-Deck. You can pit two to six hands against each other, with an optional board and dead cards.

The best PLO hands are coordinated: double-suited, with connected cards and high pairs that can flop the nuts and strong redraws. Double-suited aces with connected high cards crush rainbow, disconnected holdings. Browse the PLO starting-hand pages to see equity, rank and percentile for specific hands, then plug any of them into this calculator to test matchups.

Adding hole cards increases the number of two-card combinations each player can make, so everyone connects with more boards and the nuts change hands more often. Equities compress further — pre-flop favourites shrink, draws get bigger, and having the nut version of a hand matters more. Use the variant toggle to compare the same cards across PLO4, PLO5 and PLO6.

Exact enumeration on the flop, turn and river, where every remaining runout is counted. Preflop it uses fast Monte Carlo sampling, which converges to within a fraction of a percent.

A dead card is a card you know is unavailable — folded, exposed, or otherwise out of play. Marking dead cards removes them from the deck the calculator deals, which changes the remaining runouts and therefore the equities. It is the right way to model information such as a folded hand or an exposed card at a live table.

Yes — this page pits specific hands against each other, while the Range Equity calculator runs a hand or range against an opponent’s entire range, and the PQL Engine answers more general probability questions. Use this tool when you know (or want to test) exact holdings, and the range tools when the opponent’s holding is uncertain.

Because opponents in Omaha so often hold redraws. A flopped set can be drawing thin against a wrap plus a flush draw, and a big draw can be dominated by a bigger one. Equity in PLO is about the nuts and redraws, not just current hand strength — running the exact matchup here shows how much a “strong” hand is really worth on a given board.

Yes. Every spot is encoded in the page URL, so copying the link reproduces the exact hands, board and dead cards. You can also export the result as a PNG.