Over many deals
Run 10,000 deals to see how often your hand wins at this table, and which hands take the pot in Omaha.
Every hand is dealt to the river with no folding, so it shows raw all-in equity, not what happens when players fold. Each player must use exactly two hole cards and three from the board.
- Maths reviewed by Josh Miller
- Tested by Diana Westfield
This Omaha simulator deals Pot Limit Omaha the way it really goes: four hole cards each, a five-card board, and every player forced to use exactly two from their hand and three from the table. Deal a hand to see who wins and with what, or put in your four cards and run 10,000 deals at any table size. It’s a quick way to feel how much closer Omaha equities are than Hold’em ones.
What an Omaha simulator teaches you
The first surprise is how big the winning hands get. Six players, no folding, and the pot goes to a full house more often than anything else. Straights win almost as often, flushes about one pot in five, and a hand that would scoop in Hold’em, like top two pair, takes only about one pot in ten.
| Winning hand at the river | Heads-up | 6 players | 9 players |
|---|---|---|---|
| Straight flush or better | 1.1% | 3.3% | 5.0% |
| Full house | 11.8% | 27.3% | 34.3% |
| Flush | 11.6% | 21.0% | 22.1% |
| Straight | 18.2% | 26.5% | 26.8% |
| Three of a kind | 11.9% | 11.3% | 7.9% |
| Two pair | 34.6% | 10.4% | 3.8% |
| One pair or less | 10.7% | 0.2% | 0% |
From 100,000 simulated deals each. That’s the whole reason “the nuts” gets talked about so much in PLO: with this many players and this many combinations, second best is often a very expensive hand.
Starting hands, run out
Even the famous hands don’t run away from the field. A-A-K-K double suited is the best PLO hand there is, and it beats a single random hand about 71% of the time. In Hold’em, aces against a random hand win 85%. Put five opponents in and A-A-K-K takes about 35% of pots, roughly twice its fair share of 16.7%, which is great but nowhere near a lock.
| Hand | v 1 player | 6 players | 9 players |
|---|---|---|---|
| A♠ A♥ K♠ K♥ | 71% | 35% | 28% |
| K♠ K♥ Q♠ Q♥ | 69% | 33% | 26% |
| J♠ 10♠ 9♥ 8♥ | 57% | 26% | 19% |
| A♠ A♥ K♦ Q♣ (no suits) | 64% | 22% | 16% |
| 7♣ 6♣ 5♦ 4♦ | 48% | 20% | 13% |
| A♠ K♦ 7♥ 2♣ | 47% | 13% | 8% |
Wins plus splits, rounded. Look at what happens to aces without suits or a second pair: at a full table, a connected double-suited rundown like J-10-9-8 does better. That’s what the Omaha starting hands chart is built on. To check one hand against specific opponents and a board, use the Omaha odds calculator, and to size your bets, the pot limit calculator.
Two from the hand, three from the board
New Omaha players misread hands all the time, and the CasinoCalcs simulator is a cheap way to unlearn it. Four hearts on the board and one heart in your hand is not a flush. A pair on the board plus one card of that rank in your hand is not trips unless another card pairs it. Deal a few dozen hands and check each winner: once you see “two pair” losing to a straight that seemed invisible, the two-and-three rule sticks.