Pot-Limit Omaha has 16,432 starting hands — so instead of a chart, build any four-card hand and grade it on the four things that matter. Then print the tier cheat sheet. Free, no signup.
Tap a card to build any four-card hand and see how it rates.
Double-suited, high, and coordinated. Raise and re-raise these.
Connected rundowns and high pairs — play from most positions.
One flaw — a gap, a rainbow, or a medium pair. Play in position.
Danglers, trips, big gaps — cards that don't work together.
In Omaha you hold four cards and must use exactly two — so a good starting hand is one where all four work together.
Hold'em has 169 starting hands and a neat grid. Pot-Limit Omaha has 16,432 — because you get four cards and must use exactly two of them. So there's no chart to memorise; instead you learn to read a hand against the four things that matter: pairs, suitedness, connectedness and high-card strength. The grader above scores any hand on exactly those, so you build the instinct rather than looking up a table.
A great PLO hand is coordinated — all four cards pull in the same direction. Double-suited gives two flush draws; a connected rundown like JT98 makes the nut straights; high pairs and aces make the nut sets and dominate. The killer is the dangler — a lone off card (say the 2 in KQJ2) that leaves you effectively playing a three-card hand. Learn the full Omaha course once these four ideas click.
Build a hand, read the tier and the reasons, then print the chart.
Tap each slot and pick a card from the deck. The tool starts with a premium double-suited hand so you can see a top rating straight away.
You get a tier — Premium, Strong, Playable or Trap — plus the exact reasons: double-suited, connected, high pair, dangler, and so on.
The chart below shows real example hands in each tier, so you can see where your hand sits and why.
Hit Print cheat sheet to save the tier chart and rules as a one-page reference for your home game or study wall.
Double-suited high hands: aces double-suited (like A♠A♥K♠Q♥), broadway rundowns (A♠K♠Q♥J♥) and high pairs with connected, suited side cards. The very best combine a high pair or aces with connectedness and two suits.
A pair of aces makes the top set and blocks other players' aces. It's strongest double-suited with high, connected side cards (AAKQ double-suited) and weakest with a dangler (AA72 rainbow), which plays almost like a bare pair of aces.
Two of your four cards share one suit and the other two share a second suit — giving you two separate flush possibilities. Double-suited is a big upgrade over single-suited, which is itself better than a rainbow (four different suits).
A single card that doesn't connect with your other three — like the 2 in K♠Q♦J♥2♣. It wastes a quarter of your hand, so you're effectively playing three cards. Danglers drop otherwise-nice hands down a tier.
No — they're traps. Because you can only use two hole cards, holding three or four of a rank means the extra cards are dead: they can't make a set and can't be used at all. A hand like A♠A♦A♥7♣ is much weaker than it looks.
No — it's a teaching guide that scores the four factors that decide a hand's class. For exact hand-vs-hand equity, use a dedicated Omaha equity calculator.