PLO6 Is Now Live in PLO Genius

The more cards, the merrier — at least that’s what many Pot Limit Omaha enthusiasts believe.

While regular PLO remains the game of choice for many players, PLO5 has been steadily gaining popularity in recent years. As it turns out, for some, even five cards are not enough. More and more players are giving PLO6 a try.

It’s a trend we couldn’t ignore. In response to growing interest from our users, we’ve decided to add PLO6 to the ever-expanding PLO Genius libraries.

The Most Complex Project We’ve Built Yet

Adding PLO6 to PLO Genius has been an exciting milestone for our team. With more than 20 million possible starting hand combinations, the challenge goes far beyond running the calculations themselves. Presenting such an enormous amount of data smoothly and intuitively is equally demanding.

As always, we continue to improve the performance and overall user experience of the app. As you read these words, however, you can already explore two complete PLO6 libraries: Heads-Up with ante and 5-Max with ante.

Both libraries are tailored to the CoinPoker environment, which uses a 0.2 BB ante per player in both formats.

Why Does One Extra Card Matter So Much?

At first glance, adding a sixth card may not seem like a significant change. In practice, however, it changes almost everything.

The first difference is simply the number of possible starting hands.

No Limit Hold'em has a relatively manageable 1,326 starting hand combinations. PLO increases that number to more than 270,000, while PLO5 pushes it to roughly 2.7 million. In PLO6, the number exceeds 20 million.

Even 270,000 combinations are impossible for the human brain to process intuitively, let alone more than 20 million.

But PLO6 is about more than just bigger numbers. The additional card introduces entirely new categories of hands and forces players to reevaluate concepts they may have taken for granted. Triple-suited holdings, for example, simply do not exist in lower-card variants. While they are relatively rare, understanding their value quickly becomes an important skill.

The threshold for hand playability also rises. Connectivity and overall structure matter even more than in PLO4 or PLO5, and some familiar hand classes change dramatically in value.

This is especially true for Aces. In PLO4, virtually every AA hand enjoys a raw equity advantage against almost any opposing holding. In PLO5, the weakest AA combinations already lose a considerable amount of both equity and playability. In PLO6, poorly constructed Aces can become significant equity underdogs against the strongest opposing hands, even before taking postflop playability and equity realization into account.

These are only a few examples of how PLO6 differs from Omaha variants with fewer cards, but they hopefully give you a glimpse of just how much one additional card can change the game.

Get Ahead of the Curve

PLO6 is still a relatively young format, but it continues to gain traction and popularity. We’re confident that its player pool will only keep growing over time.

That’s exactly why we decided to invest so much effort into building these libraries. By studying PLO6 today, you have an opportunity to gain an edge before the format becomes truly mainstream.

And this is only the beginning. We plan to keep expanding our PLO6 offering with additional libraries and new study resources as the format continues to evolve.

PLO6 libraries are available to all PLO Genius PRO users — explore our pricing plans here.