How to Play 6-Card PLO

6-Card PLO is Omaha turned up to eleven. Six cards give you 15 two-card combos to choose from, so everyone connects with the board more often and big hands are normal.

Every game here uses Dojo Coin: play money with no real-world value. You can buy it with Buy Coin (not sold in Washington state), but you can't cash it out. It's just for practice.

How a hand plays

1. Button and blinds. The dealer button moves one seat left each hand. The two players to its left post the small and big blind. No antes. In tournaments everyone starts with 5,000 chips at blinds of 10/20, and the blinds go up every set number of hands.
2. Deal. Everyone gets 6 cards face down.
3. Preflop. The player left of the big blind acts first. The big blind acts last and may raise even if everyone just called.
4. Flop, turn, river. Three shared cards, then a fourth, then a fifth. A betting round follows each, starting with the first player still in to the left of the button.
5. Showdown. Each player's best hand from 2 of their 6 hole cards + 3 board cards is compared. Best hand wins.

If everyone else folds, the last player wins the pot without showing. Heads-up: the button posts the small blind and acts first preflop; after the flop the big blind acts first.

Betting rules

On your turn you can check (if nobody has bet), bet, call, raise or fold. If you could check for free, the site checks for you instead of folding.

• Smallest bet: one big blind. Smallest raise: at least the last full bet or raise this round.
• Biggest bet or raise: the pot. Picture yourself calling first; your raise can be as big as the whole pot after that call. The Pot button does the math for you.
• Short all-ins don't reopen the betting for players who already acted, unless they add up to a full raise.

Example: blinds 50/100, pot 150, you're first in. Call 100 (pot is now 250), then raise 250 more. Your pot-size raise goes to 350.

Hand rankings

Same high-hand rankings as Hold'em, from royal flush down to high card. See the full hand rankings table.

Tricky spots

Six cards, same rule. Holding three hearts doesn't help more than two: a flush still uses exactly two hearts from your hand and three from the board.

Second-best hurts. With six cards each, someone often holds the nut straight or the nut flush. A small flush or a low straight is much weaker here than in 4-card PLO.

Counting combos. Six cards make 15 possible two-card pairs. The site checks every one of them for you at showdown.

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