PLO5 Starting Hand Analyzer
Enter five cards to see what makes a starting hand strong or weak
Type cards as rank + suit (A K Q J T 9–2 and s h d c), or pick five cards below.
How to read the analysis
The analyzer describes the structure of a hand using the same system as our guide to classifying starting hands: pair structure, connectivity and suits. It does not tell you whether to raise, call or fold — that depends on your position, stack depth and opponents. Use it to understand why one hand is better than another.
- Suit structure: double-suited pure (2-2-1) is best; a third or fourth card of a suit blocks your own flush outs. See Suits, Gaps and Danglers.
- Connectivity: the largest group of connected cards. Five cards may have up to two gaps; four or three cards at most one. Cards outside it are danglers.
- Equity vs a random hand: how often the hand wins when all-in preflop against one random 5-card hand, estimated from 10,000 simulated deals (±1%). It ignores position, betting and playability and overrates hands that win small pots, so treat it as one input only. An average hand scores 50% by definition.
The analysis and the equity simulation run entirely in your browser.