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In recent articles, we've highlighted how you should study PLO wisely and what to do to become a better player. Improving significantly in a complex game like Pot Limit Omaha takes time and effort - that's why you should prioritize allocating a set amount of time for regular study to keep your brain up to date with the optimal PLO strategy.
How can you train your PLO skills on a daily basis? By using our GTO Trainer.
Like other AI poker solvers, PLO Genius allows you to test the concepts you've learned before you hit the tables - thanks to the "Train" option.
This feature is still a work in progress, as we constantly try different options to create the best training experience. Given the numerous setups for PLO and PLO5, it's impossible to include all possible solutions simultaneously, so our poker software constantly evolves. As a result, the trainer in the app will likely look different from what you see on the screens.
That said, the already developed options (available as we write these words) are an excellent poker tool for elevating your game to another level.
So, how can you get the most out of the GTO Trainer, and where should you start? The answer is simple: with the PLO basics, i.e. the preflop. A solid understanding of preflop is necessary to avoid unnecessary mistakes on later streets.
Preflop in Pot Limit Omaha is full of intricacies, and due to the vast number of combinations available, you won't be able to master them as quickly as you can in NLH. Additionally, different rake structures add some complexity.
In the case of our GTO Trainer, right now, you can set different settings for:
- game (Pot Limit Omaha or Pot Limit Omaha 5 Cards)
- format (heads-up, shorthanded, MTT and live for PLO) (heads-up and shorthanded for PLO5)
- stacks (depending on the format ranging from 10 BB to 200 BB, including some ICM sims!)
- rake (with up to four options applicable)
Of course, we add new options almost every week, but our database contains thousands of scenarios even as we write this.
For the sake of simplicity, we’ll assume that most of our readers play SH PLO in the 100BB variant on mid-stakes, so let’s use it as a starting point.
Are your PLO opening ranges on point?
In the case of Pot Limit Omaha, even mastering something as simple as opening ranges for all possible positions can take some time, so it's a great place to start training.
Using GTO Trainer, you can choose which position you'd like to investigate. Additionally, you can choose whether you want to face random hands, hard ones (where the difference in the expected values between the best two choices is slight), or a custom set of hands with predefined qualities (choosing different combinations of hands you find troublesome, like AKxx or JJxx).
Such training is not only a great way to study daily, but it’s a significant part of a warming-up routine before a poker session; if you’re a regular reader of our blog, you should already know how important warming up is. Hopefully, after some time, the opening ranges will become your bread and butter, and you can prove it with a solid percentage of correct decisions; you can up the ante.
Naturally, the next step in mastering preflop in Pot Limit Omaha is reacting to what other players did.
You can use our GTO Trainer to simulate a situation when someone has already VPIP’d either by raising, calling a raise or reraising.
When the UTG has opened, the Cut-Off has called, and you're on the Button; which hand should you call/3-bet or fold? You'll have to find out! Additionally, you can use the same hand filters as before (random, hard, or custom hands).
Thanks to AI, our poker solver provides you with other functions
Choose the settings you’d like to use, and you’ll see the training view in the form of a poker table. In this view, our app presents you with a series of situations fitting the provided description and with a summary of your performance.
A good score indicator is EV loss per 100 hands, which summarizes how your decisions deviate from the optimal strategy. Naturally, the lower the number, the lower the loss is, and the closer you are to the theoretical optimum.
Additionally, you can change the settings of your particular session (choosing different conditions), check the hands you'd like to investigate (where's the threshold of opening/calling or folding), see the history of hands shown in this session and reset your stats.
Even when we only consider preflop, there is a lot of training to be done, so we stop here for now.
We're constantly testing various options to make learning Pot Limit Omaha and its five-card variant as pleasant as possible. Do you feel something needs to be added or want to share other PLO Genius-related feedback? Hit us up on our Discord server and share your ideas!
Become a preflop master with PLO Genius
Using a GTO Trainer option is one of the best ways to quickly run through multiple preflop scenarios. Regular training sessions with our tool will undoubtedly improve your preflop awareness and confidence.
That's not all, though; we've already started developing a postflop solver with promising results (some basic functionalities are already in the app!), and we regularly share all our developments on Discord.