About PLO-5

An independent learning resource for 5-card Pot Limit Omaha

PLO-5 explains 5-card Pot Limit Omaha strategy from the rules up: how to judge a starting hand, how to play each street, and where the game differs from 4-card PLO. The site also offers free tools such as the pot size bet calculator and the starting hand analyzer.

How the content is made

• Probabilities are exact. Figures such as "46.8% of hands are double-suited" come from enumerating all 2,598,960 possible starting hands, not from estimates.
• Equity examples are calculated. Hand-versus-hand equities in the articles are computed exhaustively for the remaining cards with our own PLO5 hand evaluator.
• Strategy frequencies are approximate. Opening, defending and betting frequencies are based on solver studies at 100 big blinds, 6-max, with typical online rake. They are a baseline, not exact targets; your stakes, rake and opponents will move them.
• Articles are reviewed and updated. Each article shows its publication and update dates in its structured data, and corrections are made when errors are found.

Privacy

PLO-5 does not use cookies for visitors, does not show ads and does not load any third-party scripts or trackers. To understand which pages are useful, the server records a minimal log of each page view:

• the date and time, and the page address (without any query parameters);
• the domain of the referring site, if any (for example "google.com"), not the full address;
• whether the request came from a phone, a desktop or an automated crawler, and the crawler's name;
• an anonymous daily visitor code, calculated from a random value that changes every day and is then deleted. It cannot be linked to a person or followed across days.

No IP addresses, full browser strings, names, e-mail addresses or other personal data are stored. The log is used only for aggregate statistics and is deleted after about 13 months.

Responsible gambling

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Disclaimer

The content on PLO-5 is for educational purposes only. It is not financial advice and does not guarantee results; poker involves risk and short-term luck. PLO-5 is not affiliated with any poker room, software provider or training site. Check that online poker is legal where you live before playing for real money.