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PLO Equity Calculator
Follow these steps to get the most out of our Omaha Calculator and train your intuition for common PLO, PLO5, PLO6, and Hold’em scenarios:
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- Click ‘settings’, choose your game format and tick/untick the option for double board.
- Choose the hole cards (top) as well as the board cards (bottom) and click ‘calculate‘.
- Review the results, identify spots where you’re ahead, behind, or flipping.
- Experiment by changing board textures or hand combinations to see how the equity shifts.
How to Improve Your Game With a Poker Equity Calculator
Integrating our PLO equity calculator into your poker study routine can yield significant long-term results. It will allow you to explore and test scenarios and facilitate strategic insights into how specific hands perform across diverse conditions (such as adding a backdoor flush draw, or blocking your opponents’ outs).
Post-Session Reviews
Revisit key hands and use the tool to understand if your decisions were optimal.
Hand Interaction Practice
Regularly analyze hand vs. hand scenarios to improve your decision-making process.
Scenario Simulations
Use the calculator to simulate hypothetical scenarios and test different strategies.
What is Equity in Poker?
Equity determines how often your hand will win against an opponent’s hand. In other words, the chances you have of winning the hand at any given moment. It’s based on your current hand and all the potential outcomes, giving you an estimate of how often you’ll win by showdown.
For PLO players, where the number of possible combinations increases exponentially with each additional card (going from 270,000 in 4-Card PLO to over 20,000,000 in 6-CardPLO), the equity calculator’s ability to simplify complex hand vs. hand scenarios makes it particularly invaluable.
By practicing with specific hand vs. hand setups, you’ll learn how equities interact with board textures, identifying not only trends, but also possible leaks and pitfalls, and enabling you to make more informed decisions during actual gameplay.
Stack-to-Pot Ratio and Going All-In
The stack-to-pot ratio (SPR) describes the size of the stacks in play relative to the pot. The ratio refers to your stack size divided by the size of the pot. If there is $100 in the pot, and you have $400 in your stack, that means you have an SPR of 4.
When SPR is low the possibility of going all-in increases, and the chances of future streets diminish. When SPR is higher, you’ll play more streets and so you’ll need to take more factors into account when continuing in the hand.
Stacking-off means betting all your chips. 3-bet and 4-bet pots in PLO involve a lot of low SPR stack-off decisions and are often the most profitable spots. When you are looking to stack-off, you should know what minimum equity is required to get the money in.
Stack-to-Pot Ratio
0.5
1
2
3
4
5
Equity Required
25%
33%
40%
43%
44%
45%
Learning the stack-off thresholds will prevent you from making large mistakes in big pots. These are typical situations you don’t want to misplay, as these costly and repetitive mistakes will destroy your win rate.Â