PLO Tutor Cash
A Pot-Limit Omaha cash-game coach, not a card game
Pick your stakes, sit down with a hundred big blinds, keep what you win. You play real hands against opponents who get harder as the stakes rise, and afterwards something tells you which decision cost you money — and stays quiet when it cannot tell.
Cash games are where the money in Pot-Limit Omaha changes hands, and they are played deep: a hundred big blinds in front of everybody, no clock, no rising blinds, nobody forced to move. That changes what a mistake costs. A hand that is not the best possible hand can lose a whole stack. A draw can be worth calling for because of the money behind rather than the money in the pot. The wrong call before the flop is paid for three streets later. PLO Tutor Cash is built around exactly those decisions.
What it does
You choose the stakes — 25/50 up to 500/1000 — and sit down with a hundred big blinds at a nine-handed pot-limit table. Stacks carry from hand to hand the way they do at a real table. If you bust, you buy back in and it is counted. When you have had enough you cash out, and the session’s result is shown the way cash players keep score: big blinds won or lost, and big blinds for every hundred hands.
After a hand where something went wrong, the coach tells you which decision cost money and what it would have done instead. After a hand you played well, it says nothing at all — stopping somebody to tell them they did nothing wrong costs attention and teaches nothing. Over a few hundred hands it works out which mistakes are habits rather than accidents, ranks them by what each is costing you per hundred hands, and turns any one of them into a focused set of hands that puts you in that exact situation until you stop getting it wrong. Then it checks back days later to see whether the fix held.
What makes it a cash-game coach
It prices the money behind. Deep, a draw to the best possible hand is often worth calling for even when the pot alone does not pay for it, because of what is left to win when it gets there. The coach works that out, and it names the fold that gave up a draw the stacks paid for — and the call that chased one they did not.
It knows which hands are worth a stack. A hundred big blinds is a lot to put in with a hand that is not the best possible one and has no way to get there. Bare two pair, a flush that is not the best flush, a small set on a board full of draws: the coach watches for the stack that went in second best.
It watches the re-raised pot. Calling a re-raise deep with a hand that cannot make the best hand is the most expensive habit a four-card cash player has, because it is paid for on every street after. The coach names it.
And everything the tournament coach knows. On every board the app works out how many holdings beat yours. It counts your outs card by card and says which of them make you the best hand. It watches for the habits that lose at Omaha whatever the format: playing cards that do not work together, paying off big bets with second-best hands, drawing to second-best hands.
A ladder of stakes
The tables get harder as the stakes go up, and the app tells you when the next stake is earned: play well enough at 50/100 over a few hundred hands and it says 100/200 is yours. You can sit anywhere you like — it is your session — but the ladder says where your results put you.
What makes it different
It stays quiet when it is not sure. The coach will not name a habit until it has watched enough of the same situation to be confident, and every bar it uses was set by measuring a scripted flawless player against a scripted flawed one, at this app’s own cash tables. Where the two cannot be told apart, the habit is priced but never pinned on you by name.
It does not flatter you. Where it cannot work out what a mistake has cost, it says the cost is not known rather than printing a zero. Small samples are labelled as small samples. Hands played in a drill are kept out of your real numbers, because an arranged table would flatter or punish them without either being true.
It explains itself in English. Every unavoidable poker word — the nuts, a wrap, a buy-in, cashing out, the money behind — is tappable and defined in a sentence. Seats are numbered, with a diagram, rather than expecting you to already know what “under the gun” means.
It teaches the cash game. A short course covers the money behind a bet, the hand that is not worth a stack, what happens in re-raised pots when everybody is deep, and how pot-limit betting works — each with the arithmetic worked through.
What it is not
There is no real money gambling in PLO Tutor Cash and no way to put any in. The buy-in is chips that exist only to keep score, chips cannot be bought, and no chip has any value outside the app. “Cashing out” ends a practice session and reports a number; nothing is paid to anyone. It is a coaching tool that happens to use a poker table, in the way a driving instructor uses a car.
It is also not a solver. The coach is a heuristic evaluator that deliberately holds its tongue on close decisions, because false alarms destroy trust in a coach faster than missed mistakes do.
Your hands stay on your phone
Every hand you play is written to a plain text file on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account, there are no analytics, and nobody — including us — can see a hand you have played. The file is readable text on purpose: a tool whose whole job is being honest about your game should let you check its working.
Help and support
Something broken, something wrong, or a question the app does not answer: ken@thedigitaladlab.com. A real person reads it. If you are reporting something that went wrong, the version number is at the bottom of the More screen and saying what you were doing at the time is usually enough to find it.
Is this the same app as PLO Tutor?
No. PLO Tutor coaches tournaments: rising blinds, nine players, three paid. PLO Tutor Cash is a separate app for cash games, with its own habits, its own ladder of stakes and its own history. The two do not share anything, so what one has learned about your game does not carry to the other — and the habits are different. A tournament rewards knowing when the stack has to go in; a cash game punishes putting it in at all with the wrong hand.
Can I lose more than I bought in for?
No money is involved, so nothing is lost. If your chips run out, the app buys you back in for another hundred big blinds and counts it, so the session’s result includes every buy-in.
The coach said nothing about a hand I played badly
That is deliberate. It stays quiet on close decisions, and it will not call something a habit until it has seen enough of the same situation to be sure — usually a couple of hundred hands. A quiet coach early on is the app being honest about what it can and cannot tell yet, rather than a fault.
My rating has not moved
Under two hundred hands the rating is deliberately held near the middle and labelled as still settling, because a rating built on a handful of hands is a number about nobody. It firms up as you play.
How do I start again from scratch?
More → Start over. It throws away every saved hand, resets your rating, returns you to the lowest stakes on the ladder and cancels any practice checks that were waiting. The previous file is set aside on the device rather than deleted, in case it was a mistake.
Where are my hands kept, and how do I delete them?
In a plain text file on your own device, and nowhere else. “Start over” clears them; deleting the app removes everything. Nothing was ever sent anywhere, so there is no request to make of us and nothing for us to delete on your behalf.
Is there real money in this?
Nothing is wagered and no chip has any value outside the app. There is no way to buy chips and no way to cash anything out for money; “cash out” in the app means ending the session and seeing a score.
What does it cost?
Your first 300 hands are free, and so is the assessment that produces your first scorecard. After that PLO Tutor Cash is a subscription, and that is the only thing there is to buy — it removes the limit on how many hands you can play and buys nothing inside the game itself. It costs $9.99 a year and renews every year until you cancel, which you can do any time in your Apple Account settings. Everything you have already played stays yours either way: your hands, your numbers and the coach’s write-ups do not go anywhere if you decide not to subscribe.