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5-card PLO

PLO5 Solver

Solve 5-card Pot Limit Omaha preflop and postflop on your own machine. Heads Up to 9-max, 3-way and 4-way postflop spots, bomb pots and double board.

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The Solve & Study workspace on a 5-card PLO flop in chart view: hand classes down the side, suit shapes across the top, and each cell a mix of Check, Bet 33% pot and Bet 75% pot.
Chart View on a 5-card PLO flop — hand class by suit shape, with Check, 33% and 75% in every cell.

What you can solve

Every 5-card PLO spot you play.

  • Preflop and postflop Solve a full preflop tree, then open any flop from it and click New postflop sim. Ranges come across automatically.
  • Heads Up to 9-max Antes, straddles, double straddles and button straddles. Set stacks per seat.
  • Multiway postflop 3-way and 4-way flops, turns and rivers, with each seat’s EV on the Solve screen.
  • Bomb pots and double board Ante everyone in and start on the flop. Add a second board with one click. Half the pot settles on each board.
  • Pot-limit bet sizes Write sizing rules once, save them as presets and apply them to the whole tree. Pot-limit trees raise pot until the stack is in.
  • Rake and side games Choose from common rake structures or input your own. Stand Up (Nit) Game and Squid are priced into the EV.
  • Big O 5-card Omaha Hi-Lo (8 or better) is its own game in the same app. See the Big O solver.
  • Batch sims Run one spot across 10, 25, 100 or all 1,755 flops, or your own list of flops, turns or rivers. Results come back in one aggregate report.

Read and train

Study a PLO5 strategy your way.

  • Chart View Rows by hand class and columns by suit shape, with every action’s frequency in each cell. Colour by action mix, EV or weight.
  • List View Every hand with frequency and EV in Chips, BB or % of Pot. Filter with common syntax ($ds, AA, KK8x), group or expand combos, sort any column.
  • Built-in Trainer Deals hands from your solve and grades each decision by EV lost. Redeal the hands you got wrong until they stick.
  • Export to HydraViewer Export an entire street as .hdv to study it in the browser, or as TXT files or JSON with per-hand EVs.

RAM

What fits at each size.

Your RAMComfortable
32 GBHeads Up postflop · 3-way PLO
128 GBBomb pots · 4-max PLO5 / PLO6 preflop
512 GB+6-max PLO5 / PLO6 preflop · deeper stacks and multiple bet sizings

These figures are approximate. Hit Size in Build for the real number on your tree. Windows 11 or Server 2022+, 64-bit, and about 500 GB of free disk. Full system requirements · Rent a server

License

One price. Everything included.

  • Single $899 · Dual $1,299One machine or two. Every game, every feature and every update for a year. No tiers, no add-ons.
  • Private and offlineRuns on your own machine. Your hands, trees and solves never leave your computer.

Questions

Common questions

What is PLO5?

Pot Limit Omaha with five hole cards. You use exactly two of them with three board cards. There are 2,598,960 starting hands, about ten times as many as 4-card PLO.

Can HydraSolver solve PLO5 preflop?

Yes. 4-max PLO5 preflop fits in about 128 GB of RAM and 6-max needs 512 GB or more. Hit Size in Build to see the real number for your tree before you start.

Does it solve multiway PLO5?

Yes. 3-way and 4-way postflop spots, and bomb pots with every seat in.

Can I lock a player’s strategy?

Yes. Lock the frequencies your opponents actually play at any node on any street, and HydraSolver solves around it.

Does it run on Mac or Linux?

No. HydraSolver is a Windows desktop app: Windows 11 or Server 2022 and newer, 64-bit. You can rent a Windows server from us and connect by Remote Desktop, or study in the browser with HydraViewer.

What does it cost?

$899 for one machine or $1,299 for two, for a year. Every game, every feature and every update is included. Pay by card or Bitcoin.

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