Free study guide · Updated September 8, 2026
PLO equity calculator: understand your share of the pot
Compare specific hands in PLO4, PLO5 or PLO6 without an account or payment. The calculator evaluates Omaha hands using exactly two hole cards and three board cards, and reports how the pot is shared over the possible remaining boards.
Enter the game, players and known board
Choose four, five or six hole cards and the number of players. Enter a complete hand for every player. Add the known community cards, or leave the board empty for a preflop comparison. Each physical card can occur only once across all players and the board.
When all hands and at least a flop are entered, the page calculates automatically. Use the calculation control for a preflop comparison. On a phone, switch between Setup and Results; selecting a card slot opens the card picker.
Win, tie and equity are different
Win is the percentage of evaluated boards on which a player wins outright. Tie is the percentage on which that player shares first place. Equity includes the player’s fraction of each tied pot. A three-way tie gives each winner one third of the pot, not one half.
Across players, equity should total approximately 100%; displayed rounding can cause a small difference. Tie percentages do not have to sum to 100%, because several players can participate in the same tie.
Worked example: a three-way split
Select PLO4 and three players. Enter P1: A♠ K♦ 2♣ 3♣; P2: A♥ K♣ 4♦ 5♦; P3: A♦ K♥ 6♥ 7♥. Set the board to Q♠ J♥ T♣ 8♦ 9♣. Each player uses ace-king from the hand and queen-jack-ten from the board to make Broadway.
With the complete board there is only one result: all three tie, and each has 33.33% equity after rounding. Remove the river card to inspect possible river outcomes and the next-card table. This exercise also demonstrates why five community cards never let an Omaha player ignore the two-hole-card rule.
Exact results, sampling and decision limits
With three or more board cards, the single-board engine enumerates the remaining runouts. With fewer known board cards, it samples runouts using Monte Carlo. Sampled results can change slightly on repeated runs; increasing the sample count improves precision at the cost of more work.
A hand-versus-hand equity result assumes the entered hands are known and the board runs out. It does not include future folds, betting strategy, rake, different side pots or uncertainty about an opponent’s range. Use it to understand a matchup, not as an automatic instruction to call.
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