Early position
Keep it clean
Premium double-suited rundowns, strong Broadway hybrids, and high pairs with real connectivity.
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Seat aware
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Opening range advisor
Check whether a four-card hand belongs in your PLO opening range.
Pick a seat and stack depth, enter four cards, and get a plain-English open, mix, or fold read with the reasons behind it. The tool keeps the decision tied to the hand's suit coverage, connectivity, and pair value instead of pretending every seat uses the same chart.
Position map
Ready to advise
Middle position
Trade balance for realization
Single-suited rundowns, better gap hands, and pair-plus-connectivity when the table is softer.
Late position
Lean on position
More playable broadway hybrids, wheel-connected hands, and hands that keep more turns live.
Seat
Early position needs the cleanest opening shape.
Stack depth
100BB is the baseline for the default advice.
Current read
Enter four cards to see whether this is an open, mix, or fold.
Interactive tool
Give the hand a seat and stack depth, then check the opening decision.
Use standard card codes like Ah, Ks, Td, or 7c. The advisor turns that into a seat-aware opening read that keeps the discussion grounded in structure instead of guesswork.
Advisor controls
Seat
Pick the seat you want to open from. Early position stays tighter than late position.
The selected seat changes both the score and the advice copy.
Stack depth
Choose the stack depth that best matches the game. Shorter stacks reward cleaner strength; deeper stacks reward connectivity and redraws.
Hole cards
Enter four distinct cards. Example: As, Ks, Qd, Jd.
Enter four distinct hole cards to activate the advisor.
Examples
The examples are chosen to show how the same structure changes across seats and stack depths.
No complete hand yet
Enter four hole cards to see the opening read.
Enter four hole cards to get a seat-aware decision.
The advisor will score the hand, adjust it for seat and stack depth, and explain why the read lands on open, mix, or fold.
Seat context
Early position with the tightest baseline.
Stack context
100BB is the standard default.
Hand shape
Type cards to see the suit map and rundown quality.
Next move
Use the guide links to compare the result with the full opening-ranges page.
Use the result to move to the right free study page.
Opening ranges get easier when you pair the advisory read with the seat-by-seat guide and the starting-hand framework.
Range cards
Seat-by-seat baseline ranges that match how the advisor thinks.
The tool uses a simple opening matrix: tighter early, balanced in the middle, and widest late. That keeps the preflop decision tied to real seat pressure instead of a frozen one-size-fits-all chart.
Early position
Keep the first opens clean.
- Prefer premium double-suited rundowns and strong Broadway hybrids.
- Let disconnected rainbow holdings go unless the table is unusually soft.
- Deep stacks still do not rescue weak nut coverage from early seat.
Middle position
Add playable structure without losing discipline.
- Single-suited rundowns and better gap hands start to open up.
- Pair-plus-connectivity matters more when stacks are deeper.
- Use position to realize equity, not to justify junk.
Late position
Open more often, but still keep the hand honest.
- More suited broadway hybrids and wheel-connected hands become playable.
- Position can turn a mix into an open when the hand keeps more turns live.
- Still trim hands that only look fine because they make one weak pair.
Next step
Use the opening-ranges guide, then verify the hand shape with the evaluator.
The guide explains the seat logic in full. The evaluator and advisor then give you a faster way to check whether a specific four-card hand belongs in the opening pool.