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PLO6 equity calculator
Six hole cards make 15 two-card combos, and equities compress to match.
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A PLO6 hand holds six cards and still uses exactly two, so every hand contains 15 two-card combos - two and a half times PLO4's six. That flattens preflop equity: the strongest class is only about 65% against one random hand, aces vs kings double-suited runs roughly 59/41, and nobody is ever a big preflop favorite. There are 20,358,520 possible PLO6 starting hands in 962,988 distinct classes; the top tier alone is a 976-way tie. This calculator computes PLO6 equity for two to six hands with optional board and dead cards. Flop, turn and river enumerate every remaining runout exactly; six-way preflop is exact too (4,368 boards), and bigger preflop spots run Monte Carlo to a ±0.3% convergence target. When a spot feels too close to call, put the real hands in - four-card intuition misprices PLO6 more than any other variant.
PLO6 Equity Calculator FAQ
How it works
Pick cards for two to six PLO6 hands and watch equity update live. Results are exact on the flop, turn and river; preflop is exact when few enough runouts remain, Monte Carlo to a ±0.3% target otherwise. Add a board, mark dead cards, lock hands you want to keep, and share any spot with a link.
What are the best PLO6 starting hands?
976 hand classes tie statistically at the top, at 64.5-65.2% equity against one random hand. Every member is at least double-suited, 98% hold two aces, and the side cards cluster on T-J-8-7. A-A-Q-T-9-8 and A-A-J-T-8-7 with three suit pairs are typical. The PLO6 rankings, including a top-10,000 CSV, live on our PLO5 and PLO6 starting hand rankings page.
What do 15 combos per hand actually change?
More board coverage for everyone. You flop a piece of most boards, but so do your opponents, so relative value shifts toward nut draws and away from one-pair-and-hope. Blockers also get stronger: six known cards remove more of the deck than four. Hand selection in PLO6 is less about avoiding danglers and more about how many nut outcomes the six cards can cooperate on.
How often are you dealt aces in PLO6?
6.08% of deals contain at least two aces - up from 4.17% in PLO5 and 2.57% in PLO4, exact combinatorics. Aces alone mean less here than in any other Omaha variant: opponents holding 15 combos each outdraw bare aces fast, so the four side cards do most of the work.
How much do equities compress from PLO4 to PLO6?
Aces vs kings, both double-suited: about 70/30 in PLO4, 63/37 in PLO5, 59/41 in PLO6. The same drift shows up in every matchup, and it changes how the game plays: preflop raises buy position and initiative more than raw equity, and stacks go in behind nut potential rather than made-hand strength. Switch between PLO4, PLO5 and PLO6 in the game selector and re-run the same matchup to watch it compress.
Are the results exact or simulated?
Flop, turn and river are always exact. PLO6 eats the deck fast, which helps preflop too: six-way preflop leaves only 4,368 boards and five-way 26,334, both enumerated exactly on any device. Heads-up preflop leaves 658,008 boards and runs Monte Carlo until every hand converges inside ±0.3%. The status line under the bar shows the mode and runout count.
Does PLO6 have a hi-lo version?
Yes, 6-Card Omaha Hi-Lo is spread both live and online, and split-pot equities diverge hard from high-only. It is a mode of this same calculator: pick Big O6 in the game selector above, or press L, for scoop, quarter and low-side rates.
Why do second-best hands cost so much in PLO6?
Because with 15 combos per opponent, the nut version of anything is out there more often than four-card instinct expects. King-high flushes and bottom-end straights are the standard PLO6 stack-losers. To see the damage in numbers, set it up here: give one hand the nut flush and another the king-high version on the same board, and look at the split.
PLO6 rankings: the 976-class top tier, plus a top-10,000 CSV