A PLO range is a long list of four-card combos, too many to read one by one. The Categories panel folds them into a short list of hand types, each with its own frequency and action split, so you can judge a whole family of hands in one look.
Open the Categories panel
- Open Strategies and build a spot.
- Go to the Range tab.
- Read the hand-type groups in the Categories panel.
The range stays on screen beside it as a list of individual four-card combos.
The Categories panel: each hand type with its share of the range and its action split.
What the preflop codes mean
Each category is labeled with a short code:
- AA is a hand with a pair of aces.
- AB is an unpaired ace with one broadway card.
- BPP is a broadway-paired holding.
- Rundown is four cards in sequence, allowing up to two gaps.
- Rest is every hand the named groups leave out.
These are the panel's own shorthand, and not the full set of codes.
Read a category
Each category shows how much of the range it makes up and how that group splits across its actions. A category that always takes the same action shows a single figure; one that mixes shows the split between its actions.
Expand a category for more detail
Every category has a + expander. Open it to break the group down further, by suitedness and by the individual combos inside it.
On the flop: made-hand and draw categories
When you deal a flop, the Categories panel switches its groups automatically. The preflop codes give way to five postflop hand-strength categories:
- Trips, three of a kind.
- Two Pair, two pairs.
- Pair, a single pair.
- Draws, hands drawing to a made hand.
- Air, a hand with no made hand or strong draw.
You read each postflop category the same way as the preflop ones, with its share of the range and its action split. The made-hand and draw categories keep the + expander for a finer breakdown, while Air has none. Each category has a Select category checkbox next to it.
To reach the flop in the first place, use Configuring a Spot. Once you are on the flop street, the panel follows on its own.
To read these categories on a spot of your own, open this one and deal a flop.
A real spot to open
Where to go next
- The Range View and Syntax Search covers reading the full range and searching for specific combos.
- Split View and the Matrix View show which hands take each action, or the range as a grid.
- Equity Buckets and the Equity Graph compare range equity, including on the flop.
- Strategies Overview and Configuring a Spot set up a spot before you study it.