The 10 Highest C-Bet Frequency Boards in PLO Single Raised Pots
The old version of this article said "we dug through solver outputs" and listed plausible-sounding boards. This version is the actual computation: every one of the 1,755 canonical flops in our 6-max 100bb solve, aggregated for the most common single-raised pot (button opens pot, big blind calls, flop checks to the button), each hand's strategy weighted by the solve's own preflop ranges. The full table is downloadable on the c-bet frequencies reference; this is the story it tells.
The real top 10
| Flop | C-bet | of which 33% · pot |
|---|---|---|
| A-8-8 two-tone | 84.4% | 69.9% · 14.5% |
| A-9-9 two-tone | 82.8% | 65.4% · 17.4% |
| A-T-T two-tone | 81.3% | 71.0% · 10.3% |
| A-7-7 two-tone | 80.9% | 68.3% · 12.6% |
| A-J-J two-tone | 79.4% | 69.8% · 9.6% |
| 9-9-3 rainbow | 78.1% | 74.0% · 4.1% |
| 9-9-4 rainbow | 77.8% | 74.1% · 3.6% |
| A-6-6 two-tone | 77.4% | 62.6% · 14.8% |
| 8-8-3 rainbow | 75.6% | 70.3% · 5.3% |
| 9-9-2 rainbow | 75.3% | 70.8% · 4.5% |
One texture, ten variations: a paired board the caller's range misses. Six of the ten are an ace beside a low or middling pair; the other four are a low pair - nines or eights - with a low kicker. Not a single king-high board makes the list, and neither does A-K-x. The side cards matter more than most players think: A-K-4 rainbow gets bet 64.5%, twenty points below A-8-8 two-tone, because the king connects with a big-blind range full of broadway.
The size split carries a second lesson. These top boards are small-bet range bets, every one of them: the 33% size carries 62-74 of the 75-84 points, and on the four ace-free boards it takes better than 92% of all the betting. The pot-heavy boards are elsewhere - on A-K-4 rainbow the solve narrowly prefers the big size (32.9% potted vs 31.6% small) while betting less often overall. Frequency and size trade off: the more of your range wants to bet, the smaller the bet; the more the board splits your range into value and air, the bigger.
Why these boards, mechanically
The big blind's calling range against a button open folded its worst ace-junk preflop and 3-bet its best aces. What calls is rundowns, suited mid cards, and pairs. An A-6-4 flop misses all of it: the range composition data shows the calling range's flush draws and straight cards concentrated on middle boards, and its aces thinned out. So the opener's range bet prints - A-6-4 rainbow is bet 67.6%, fifteen points above the field - and pairing the board on top of that, as the whole top ten does, takes it past 80%.
Reverse each condition and the frequency collapses. Put the straight cards on the board: Q-J-T rainbow gets c-bet 33.4%. Pair the board into trips: A-A-A rainbow is checked back 73.5% of the time (nobody has anything, and the player who checks holds the option to bluff later). Put every card in one suit: Q-J-T monotone falls to 18.8%, and the fifteen least-bet flops in the solve are all monotone. Make it low and connected: 7-6-5 two-tone runs 43.8%, and those are the boards the big blind donk-leads most - 19.3% on that flop, against 3.5% on ace-high boards as a class - precisely because its range finally has the advantage.
The class averages
| Texture class | BTN c-bet |
|---|---|
| Ace-high | 58.3% |
| 7-high or lower | 50.6% |
| 8-T high | 51.6% |
| K/Q/J-high | 50.2% |
| Unpaired | 52.4% |
| Paired | 52.0% |
| Trips on board | 33.6% |
| Disconnected | 53.8% |
| Connected (span ≤ 2) | 39.9% |
| Monotone | 40.9% |
Overall the button c-bets 52.3% of flops after the check: 37.0% of the time small, 15.4% of the time pot. The one-sentence version of all 1,755 boards: bet more as the top card rises and disconnects from the rest, bet less as the board pairs into trips, wires into middle straights or lands in one suit, and treat king-high boards with more respect than their face cards suggest.
Every number here reproduces what the solver tool displays board by board; the methodology and the full CSV are on the c-bet frequencies reference.