Draws

Rundown in PLO

A four-card starting hand made of connected or near-connected ranks, like T987 or QJT9, prized for its straight-making potential.

rundowns

What it means at the table

A rundown is a four-card hand whose ranks work together to make straights, especially when the cards are close together like T-9-8-7.

Smooth rundowns flop wraps, pair-plus-draws, and redraw-heavy equity more often than disconnected hands.

Decision checkpoint

Table question

Are the cards smooth enough to create nut wraps, or are gaps creating dirty routes?

Rule of thumb

Smooth high rundowns outperform gapped, low rundowns because their strong outs are cleaner.

Table example

T-9-8-7 double-suited can attack many 6-7-x, 8-6-x, and J-T-x boards; T-9-6-2 cannot.

Leak to avoid

Treating any four connected-looking cards as equal when gaps and low non-nut ends make many straight outs dirty.

Mini calculator

Open a related tool or prefilled spot, then change one rank, suit, board card, or stack assumption and watch what changes.