Equilab changed that with an intuitive, straight-forward design, and the new Omaha tool is based on the same layout. Poker software has traditionally suffered from rather quirky designs and esoteric references, with little in the way of help or guidance for the uninitiated. One thing that made the original Equilab popular was the user-friendly interface. So how does the free tool stack up against the existing offerings? This was followed by ProPokerTools’s own “Odds Oracle” this year, a calculator for multiple games that goes well beyond range equity calculators.Īnd last week saw the launch of PokerStrategy’s “Equilab Omaha,” an Omaha version of its popular Texas Hold’em calculator.
First we had the release of Slice, an offline equity calculator that included PLO and Omaha 8 support. “Beyond simple calculations, Omaha Equilab has a few other tricks up it’s sleeve.” But in the last year or so things have changed. And as a multitude of new tools have appeared for Hold’em – CardRunners EV, Equilab, The Combonator and many more – PLO players have been largely sidelined.
The PLO mainstay has always been ProPokerTools, but this is browser-based and lacked a offline version. Whilst we have all been doing equity calculations with PokerStove since the Moneymaker boom years, four-card fans have lacked a real equivalent. PLO players have never had quite the same selection of tools as their Texas Hold’em compatriots.
