⚔️ PLO DBBP Equity ⚔️

DBBP App — Help

Basic workflow

1. Enter hands
   Blank seats are treated as random opponents.
   To reduce players, use the player-count selector.
   You can also randomize a single seat (🎲), randomize empty seats, or randomize all seats.
2. Enter boards (optional)
   You may enter a full board, flop/turn/river partials, or nothing (full random runout).

Modes

V Exact (Omniscient — Full or Partial-Information)

Use V Exact for fully known hands, wildcards / constrained ranges, and partial-board situations. All card-removal and wildcard constraints are enforced on every trial. This mode answers: “What is the true showdown equity given everything we know?”

V Random (Range Simulation Mode)

Use V Random to:

• See every entered hand vs a random opponent range
• Study multiple hands at once
• Compare performance of all hands across various board textures

Requirements & assumptions:

• All seats must contain full, explicit hands
• Wildcards are not allowed
• Each hand applies only its own card-removal effects: it does not assume knowledge of other players’ cards, and is evaluated as if opponents are drawn from a fresh random range consistent only with that hand.

In other words: each hand is tested independently vs a random field, not against the other entered hands. This makes V Random best for range-vs-range and multi-hand exploration.

Single-Board Mode

Single-Board mode simulates only Board A. Board B is ignored in the simulation, its stats are hidden, and the Board B header shows “n/a” when empty. Saved scenarios remember whether Single-Board mode was on or off. Use this when studying regular single-board PLO.

Wildcards (V Exact only)

You can use wildcards to describe partial hands in V Exact:

• AX — Ace of any suit
• XS — any spade
• XX — unknown card
• ! — NOT, as in !SS (No 2 Spades), !AA (No AA), !Kx etc.

Wildcards obey card-removal rules, interact with other players’ cards, and are enforced every trial. Empty slots are shown as Xx. Wildcards are not permitted in V Random.

Ranges

A seat can hold a range instead of a hand. Each trial deals that seat a fresh hand from its range, avoiding every other known card, so the results are range-vs-range (or hand-vs-range) equity. Ranges run in V Exact; the app switches to it automatically. The seat shows how many hands the range holds and its share of all hands (≈ in PLO5/PLO6, where it is measured on a large random sample). % ranks hands by all-in equity against one random hand of the same size, from full tables for PLO4, PLO5 and PLO6 (50,000 deals per hand class).

Open 📚 Ranges (or 📚 on a seat) for the full syntax list, presets and your saved library.

• AA at least two aces · AA,KK aces or kings · K contains a king · * any hand
• AxAyxy / AA$ds double-suited aces · AxAyxz single-suited aces · hhxx two hearts + two of another suit
• 15% top 15% · 30%-50% a band · 25%:xxxx top 25% and monotone · 40%!RR top 40% without a pair
• TT-77, Q+, 9876-, A-Q, 2x3x-2x5x — ranks that step together
• [A-J][2-5]33, K[2s,Jc,T], J[T-][T-][T-] — bracketed choices for one card
• JRON a jack and three other ranks · RROO two pair · AARR aces plus another pair
• $ds $ss $np $nt double-suited, single-suited, no pair, no trips · {$L$L$L$L} four different lo cards
• , either · : or & both · ! but not · ( ) grouping
• Range Analyzer formats also work: AA**, *h*h**, groups B M Z W N L, and explicit lists like AsKs3s2s@100, QhQs3s2s@40 (weights 0–100).

Classic seat entries keep their meaning: AS KD QC JH, Ax, Xs, Xx, !AA. So AxKx still means any ace + any king. Start with = to read it as range syntax instead (=AxKx is suited AK).

Library: saved ranges use the PLO Range Analyzer's library. Opened from the same site, both apps share it; otherwise use ⬆ Import / ⬇ Export with the analyzer's backup files (PokerHUD's player_ranges.json imports too).

Running sims

Choose a trial count (10k–20k recommended for everyday work), then tap Run. You can cancel at any time to stop early.

Reading results

Double-board mode

• A: Wins — equity on Board A
• B: Wins — equity on Board B
• Total Eq — combined equity across both boards
• A: Winner — most common winning hand class on Board A
• B: Winner — most common winning hand class on Board B
• Scoop :) — wins both boards
• 1/4 :( — quartered percentage

Winner fields show the most frequent showdown class, not abstract hand strength.

Single-board mode

• Total Eq — equity on Board A only
• A: Winner — most common winning-hand class on Board A
• Chop — percentage of tied-pot outcomes

In Single-Board mode, Board B is ignored in sims, its columns are hidden, and its header shows “n/a” when empty. The Sort by equity toggle reorders the table by equity instead of seat number.

Save & autosave

Saved scenarios include hands (with wildcards), boards A/B, card mode, view mode, board mode (single/double), and results. Autosave restores your last working state when you reopen the app.