Poker 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 collect 60% of the pot on average, whether from outright wins or chops.

In Omaha you must use exactly two of your hole cards, which compresses equities: hands run closer together than in Hold'em, so preflop edges are smaller. AA vs KK is about 82/18 in Hold'em; four-card aces against four-card kings, both double-suited, is nearer 70/30, and aces four-handed are only around 35% against three random hands. This is why position, playability and nut potential matter more in PLO than raw preflop strength.

Pot odds are the price you are getting to call: the bet you must pay relative to the total pot after you call. Compare that percentage with your equity; if your equity exceeds the share you must pay, calling is profitable on a pure-odds basis. Facing a half-pot bet you pay exactly 25% of the final pot, so you need 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) badly overstates equity in PLO. The rule prices a 20-out wrap at 80%, but against top set it runs about 45%: outs overlap, some make second-best hands, and opponents hold redraws. The exact enumeration here is far more reliable than counting outs.

Yes. Switch the variant to PLO4, PLO5 or PLO6, or to NLHE and Short Deck (6+). 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.

Equities compress as hole cards are added: each extra card multiplies the two-card combinations a player can make, so everyone connects with more boards and the nuts change hands more often. Aces vs kings runs about 70/30 in PLO4, 63/37 in PLO5 and 59/41 in PLO6. Preflop favorites shrink, draws get bigger, and having the nut version of a hand matters more. Use the variant toggle to compare the same matchup across variants.

Exact enumeration on the flop, turn and river, where every remaining runout is counted. Preflop is also exact when roughly 200,000 boards or fewer remain to deal (six-way PLO4, four-way PLO6, three-way Short Deck all qualify); bigger preflop spots run Monte Carlo until every hand's equity converges to a ±0.3% target. The status line under the equity bar shows which mode ran.

A dead card is a card you know is out of play: folded, exposed, or otherwise unavailable. 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 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 top set is only around 35-40% against a monster wrap with a flush draw, and nearer 30% once the straight is already made; a big draw can likewise be dominated by a bigger one. Equity in PLO is about the nuts and redraws, not just current hand strength. Run the exact matchup here to see what a strong hand is really worth on a given board.

Yes. Copy share link (under the gear icon) creates a short URL that reproduces the exact hands, board and dead cards. You can also export the result as a PNG.