Double board bomb pot calculator
Type the hands you know, leave the rest random, add the boards you can see. The calculator deals the rest thousands of times and tells you each hand's share of the pot, how often it scoops and how often it wins nothing. Hold'em, four, five and six card Omaha, one or two boards, two to nine players.
Cards like As Kd 7h 7c (s h d c, T or 10 for ten). Leave a hand empty for a random one.
Preflop: what a hand is worth in an eight-handed bomb pot
A bomb pot has no preflop betting, so your cards are worth their share of the pot before anyone acts. With eight players an average hand gets 12.5%. Here is what some hands get against seven random hands in a double board pot:
| Game | Hand | Pot share | Scoop | Wins nothing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hold'em | A-A | 38.6% | 14.3% | 36.8% |
| Hold'em | 7-2 offsuit | 6.1% | 0.3% | 86.1% |
| PLO4 | A-A-K-K double suited | 29.7% | 8.2% | 48.6% |
| PLO4 | A-A-7-2 rainbow | 12.8% | 1.2% | 75.4% |
| PLO4 | J-T-9-8 double suited | 18.5% | 2.8% | 62.4% |
| PLO5 | A-A-K-K-Q double suited | 27.5% | 6.9% | 50.9% |
| PLO5 | J-T-9-8-7 double suited | 16.4% | 1.9% | 63.7% |
Three things stand out. Aces in Hold'em are worth three times an average hand even eight-handed, yet they still win nothing at all 36.8% of the time. In four-card Omaha, A-A-7-2 rainbow is an average hand: 12.8% against 12.5%. And A-A-K-K double suited scoops only one pot in twelve, which is why a bomb pot is played board by board, not hand by hand. (Six-card Omaha does not fit eight players and two boards in one deck: 48 hole cards and 10 board cards are 58 cards. The calculator tells you when a setup needs more than 52.)
On the flop: top set against a big draw
Four-card Omaha. Top board king, eight, three; bottom board nine, seven, two with two hearts. One player has K♥ K♦ 6♣ 5♣ for top set on the top board and a gutshot below. Another has A♥ Q♥ J♠ T♠: the nut flush draw below, with the ace and queen of hearts, and a backdoor broadway draw on top that needs both the turn and the river. A third hand is random.
- Top set: 51.9% of the pot, scoops 18.2%.
- The draws: 33.6%, scoops 6.6%.
- The random hand: 14.5%.
Heads up the set gets 61.0%. Against four random hands it drops to 43.4%. The set is the best hand on its board, but it is one board: half the pot is still open, and every extra player is one more way to lose it. Run it yourself with the first button above the table, then change the hands.
How to read the numbers
- Pot share is what the hand wins on average, both boards counted, ties split. Compare it with the price: if you call 100 into a final pot of 400, you need 25%.
- Scoop is both boards alone. In a big multiway pot even the best hands scoop rarely.
- Top board and bottom board are how often the hand wins each board, a tie counted as a part.
- Nothing is how often the hand wins neither board. That is the number to look at before you put your stack in.
Random hands are random: real players fold some hands and raise others. Against a player who bets big, put in the hands you think that player holds. The fold list and the full house page show how much a realistic range changes the answer.
Where to go from here
- Double board bomb pot rules: the ante, the deal and how the pot is split.
- River math: one board, both boards, three quarters and a quarter.
- The trainer: play the hands instead of calculating them, against seven opponent types.
- The course: one hand a day for thirty days. Lesson one is free.
The calculator evaluates Omaha exactly (two cards from the hand, three from the board) and Hold'em as the best five of seven, deals the unknown cards at random until about two and a half seconds have passed, and is exact when every card is known. The tables on this page come from the same evaluator, 40,000 random run-outs per line (15,000 for six cards), generated on 22 October 2026; each figure moves by about half a point either way. No rake. If you find a number that is wrong, write to hello@bombpotcoach.com.
Questions people ask
Is there a double board bomb pot calculator?
Yes. The calculator on this page takes two to nine players, Hold'em, four-card, five-card or six-card Omaha, and one or two boards at any street. It deals the unknown cards thousands of times, splits each board as half the pot and reports every hand's pot share, scoops and boards won. It is free and runs in your browser.
How is the pot split in a double board bomb pot?
Each board is worth half the pot. The best hand on the top board wins one half and the best hand on the bottom board wins the other. One player who wins both boards scoops the whole pot. Two players who tie on one board split that half, so each gets a quarter of the pot.
What is pot share in a bomb pot?
Pot share is the part of the whole pot a hand wins on average over all the ways the cards can come. In an eight-handed bomb pot an average hand has 12.5%. Pocket aces in Hold'em have 38.6% against seven random hands in a double board pot in our simulation, and A-A-K-K double suited in four-card Omaha has 29.7%.
Are aces good in a PLO bomb pot?
Only with help. A-A-7-2 rainbow gets 12.8% of an eight-handed double board pot in our simulation, about the 12.5% an average hand gets. The same aces with two kings and two suits get 29.7%. In a bomb pot everyone sees the flop, so the cards that connect and make flushes carry the hand, not the pair.
Does the calculator work for single board bomb pots?
Yes. Set boards to one and the whole pot goes to the best hand on that board. Use it for single board Hold'em bomb pots, the format WPT Global and Americas Cardroom run online.
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