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[Bullajami]

Is there a reliable one out there?

[toom]

Bull, Jeff's first PLO book (the non-Dimat published one) does a nice job of breaking down starting hands. I don't know of a chart, but someone's done one, I'm sure.

I'd adjust my own starting hands to the table. With a fairly loose-passive table like I see all the time in live play (where few have positional awareness), I try to be just a little tighter than the table in MP, a lot tighter in EP, and a little looser in the blinds. That usually equates to about 30% of hands at a full table.

A rough hand ranking might go like this:

double suited aces with broadway cards or high pairs or
high wraps like (double suited adds value but beware reverse implied odds)
a pair with two connecting cards like 9987
middle wraps like T987 or T976, beware top-gap hands like T876.
middle-low two pair hands especially if they connect. 8877 is much better than 9933.

High pair with junk hands play much better in short stack situations. AA93 and KK72 only have set-mining value with deeper stacks.

Avoid hands like , avoid hands like (although the latter has some value in position). Avoid trips and quads obviously.

I'm sure this is incomplete.

[lolercoasterrr]

A hand like Ac9s8s7c or any 3-card rundown with a suited ace also has big play potential...

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I think in late position you can add hands like
(suited ace with a pair of another suit)

[safesteps]

In late position in an unraised pot more hands are playable, such as bottom two-gapper rundown ( T985 ), or bottom two middle gaps ( T975 ), because they hold a good potential. Ofc, you need specific boards to keep playing those holdings, but once they come you ve got some great nut wrapings.