Training
Training sites and courses to sharpen your game.
Video & Course Platforms44
A-Game Poker
Elliot Roe's mental game system: the A-Game Poker book, a six-module masterclass with workbooks, private coaching with Elliot or his coaches, and the Primed Mind app. Covers cash, tournaments and heads-up at every stake.
Advanced PLO Mastery
Upswing Poker's advanced Pot-Limit Omaha course by Chris Wehner and Dylan Weisman: 36 hours of preflop, postflop and solver-based theory, 24 play-and-explain videos up to 5000PLO, 21 quizzes and a private group.
BBZ Poker
MTT training with Daily Seminars (3,000+ hours of videos, live coaching and a VIP Discord), a preflop charts trainer, an MTT Leak Finder, standalone courses and private coaching.
Beat Small Stakes
Steve Pavilanis's exploitative system for live $1/2 to $2/5 NLHE cash: a $10 Controlled Chaos Playbook, the full Controlled Chaos Masterclass and a weekly hand-quiz newsletter.
Beyond Tells
Blake Eastman's training on poker tells and opponent behavior, built on his large video study of live players: Beyond Tells 2.0, a 12-week video course ($400 one-time) whose first week is free, plus private programs.
Beyond the Solver: 11 Blueprints to Exploit Common Population Mistakes
Course by Thomas Boivin on exploiting common population mistakes.
Burn and Turn Academy
Poker academy and private ClubGG club with free beginner courses, paid intermediate and advanced courses, group practice sessions and tournaments, private coaching, and free trainer, bankroll and hand-analysis web apps. Covers NLHE, Limit and PLO.
Carrot Corner
Pete Clarke's structured cash game course in tiers: a free Starter Carrot, Bronze (foundations), Silver (framework, with Discord) and Golden (complete education). Upgrades credit what you paid.
Chip Leader Coaching
Tournament training from Chance Kornuth, Alex Foxen and Kristen Foxen: the Chip Leader AI drill platform, group coaching in The Inner Circle, and courses such as The Closer and Bracelet Hunter.
Crush Live Poker
Bart Hanson's training for live cash games ($1/2 to $5/10): 900+ videos, 100+ hours of courses including PLO Battle Plan, call-in hand reviews, quizzes, a member Discord and the BartBot search tool. The podcast is free.
Daniel Negreanu Teaches Poker (MasterClass)
Daniel Negreanu's MasterClass: 38 lessons (7 hr 40 min) on his approach to cash games, tournaments and online play.
Delusion Killer Masterclass
Vinton Mojdeh's self-paced course for live cash players built on his PIPO system: practical poker math, opponent reads, exploitation, bet sizing and disciplined execution, with cheat sheets and debrief templates.
DEVIATE
Red Chip Poker course by w34z3l: 26 videos that use player-pool data to find where opponents deviate from GTO and how to exploit it, plus six Deviate Plus videos on profiling, sizing tells and stats.
EducaPoker
Spanish-language poker school and community with articles, videos, live classes and daily hand tutoring for tournaments, cash and Spins. The basic tier is free, and points earned at partner poker rooms pay for paid tiers.
Fearless River
Nick Binger's training site, formerly LearnWPT: 550+ strategy videos, a GTO Trainer with drills, monthly live study sessions, courses, downloadable charts and an Ask a Pro Discord, with instructors such as Tony Dunst and Andrew Lichtenberger.
Foundations (Phil Galfond)
Phil Galfond's 49-video course on learning poker the right way: the thinking behind hand reading, ranges and decisions, for newer and improving players.
From the Ground Up: PLO Edition
Thomas Emter's 54-video Run It Once course covering Pot-Limit Omaha from the basics (bankroll, rake, variance) through preflop and postflop strategy. A 5-card PLO edition is also available.
JAKA Coaching
Faraz Jaka's tournament training membership: weekly 90 to 120 minute live group lessons with Faraz and guest coaches, plus a video library. $129 a month with a 7-day free trial.
Learn Pro Poker
Ryan Laplante's tournament training membership: hundreds of videos, monthly live group calls with a categorised hand database, a Skool community and integration with Range Trainer Pro.
Low Limit Cash Games
Brett Mason's training for live $1/2 and $1/3 NLHE: a Patreon with training videos and an ad-free weekly podcast episode, plus the free Low Limit Cash Games podcast. Free to follow; paid tiers from $10/month.
Master Mixed Games (PokerCoaching.com)
Alex Livingston's PokerCoaching.com course on ten mixed games: Omaha 8 or Better, Limit Hold'em, Stud, Stud 8, Razz, 2-7 Triple Draw, 2-7 Single Draw, Badugi, Badeucy and Badacey, with preflop charts for every game and live webinars. $499, lifetime access.
Master Poker Tells
Nacho Cuesta's course on 74 live tells in six groups (checks, betting, eyes, verbal, body language, all-ins), filmed at a real table with a points system for weighing what you see.
Mastering Double Board Bomb Pots
PLO Mastermind course on double-board PLO bomb pots: 45 lessons and 12+ hours of video from JNandez and Georg Funke on multiway play, hand strength across two boards and bluffing, plus an e-book and session reviews.
Mastering Live Cash
RaiseYourEdge's 25-hour course for live casino cash games by coaches FaLLout86 and Mariano5: preflop ranges with a range viewer, postflop adjustments for live fields and a private Discord.
Mastering Live Cash Games (BBZ Poker)
Published 2026
Vanja Arp's BBZ course on beating $1/3 to $5/10 live NLHE cash: default preflop ranges built with GTO Wizard and when to deviate, exploits for four player types, postflop play in raised, deep, straddled and multiway pots, tells, table selection and bankroll. About 10 hours in 40 videos, plus a private Discord channel. $185.
Mental Game Bundle
François Hamel's mental game course on BBZ Poker: 45 videos (18 hours) on identity and values, emotions and stress, habits and breathing, plus sessions with BBZ pros. For tilt, downswings and confidence.
Mental Game Tune Up for Tournament Poker
Jared Tendler's course for getting ready for the WSOP and other big series: 34 lessons (13.5 hours) built around unscripted coaching sessions with pros Matt Affleck and Diego Ventura, with worksheets and quizzes.
MTT Poker School
Gareth James's tournament academy: the Train & Play Like the Pros curriculum on study habits, leak finding and decision-making, with live group coaching calls, hot seats, hand reviews and a members' community.
Phil Ivey Teaches Poker Strategy (MasterClass)
Phil Ivey's MasterClass: 12 lessons (3 hr 30 min) on how he thinks about strategy and reads at the table.
PLO Mastermind
Fernando "JNandez" Habegger's PLO-only platform for 4- and 5-card PLO: the PLO Trainer solver (precisely solved preflop and flop sims, browser turn and river solving), 300+ coaching videos with two new each week, and a Discord.
Poker Without Fear
Alexander Fitzgerald and Steve Blay's course on aggressive play and building big stacks: 23 video lessons (10 hours), challenges and 200 quizzes, with add-ons on bomb pots, multi-flight tournaments and 8-handed cash.
PokerCoaching.com
Jonathan Little's training platform, tournament-first with cash content: masterclasses, study plans, live coaching, quizzes and cheat sheets, bundled with the PeakGTO trainer. Free tier with sample lessons.
Pokercode
Fedor Holz's training team: Fedor's MTT Masterclass, a cash game masterclass, 700+ videos, weekly live coaching, a hand-quiz trainer and a 10,000+ member Discord.
RaiseYourEdge
Benjamin "bencb" Rolle's training site, known for its tournament courses (Crusher, Champion, Tournament Masterclass) and also offering cash game courses including Mastering Live Cash, free starter courses and the Pairrd trainer.
Reading Poker Tells Video Series
Zachary Elwood's video course on live tells, using footage from real cash games and tournaments from low stakes to high: more than 13 hours, with new videos added over time.
Red Chip Poker
Training site for live and low-to-mid stakes cash players: CORE, a 200+ lesson A-to-Z course, PRO with hundreds of videos and the GTO Ranges app, a free Discord and a podcast with 3M+ downloads.
Run It Once
Phil Galfond's training site: Elite membership with 9,500+ videos from 180+ pros across NLHE, PLO, MTTs and mixed games, standalone courses, forums, and the Vision GTO trainer.
Simplify Poker Academy
Barry Carter and Dara O'Kearney's Skool community for making modern GTO theory practical: three masterclass videos a month, a monthly Q&A webinar with Dara, and forums for strategy questions.
The One Percent
James Sweeney's course on frequency-based strategy: 11 videos (about 7 hours) on building balanced ranges and seeing where opponents are out of line.
The Poker Forge
Sky Matsuhashi's membership for online micro-stakes cash players: ten step-by-step courses (hand reading, preflop, c-bets, poker math, HUD use, exploiting opponents and more) with checklists, plus monthly live coaching, member tournaments, play-and-explain livestreams and a private community.
Tournament Poker Edge
Tournament training site with 3,000+ videos from 35+ MTT pros, the TPE University curriculum, strategy articles, forums and podcasts. Covers MTTs, turbos and SNGs.
Upswing Lab 2.0
Upswing Poker's NLHE membership, rebuilt by Uri Peleg with Doug Polk and a hand-picked coaching team: leveled cash and tournament paths from beginner to high stakes, with new videos weekly.
Upswing Poker
Training site co-founded by Doug Polk and Ryan Fee, with the Upswing Lab membership, standalone NLHE, PLO, tournament and mixed-game courses, free preflop charts, strategy articles and the Level-Up podcast.
Your Road To Midstakes
Run It Once Elite mini-course in which Frankie Carson teaches what it takes to move up to mid stakes: polarization, mass data analysis, and bluffing and bluff-catching.
Play-vs-Bots Trainers5
Advanced Poker Training
Browser-based trainer where you play NLHE cash, tournament, Spin & Go and bomb-pot hands against bots, with advice from 28 AI advisors, Beat the Pro challenges, leak reports and weekly plans. Free account; Omaha Poker Training is a sister site.
Omaha Poker Training
Advanced Poker Training's pot-limit Omaha trainer in the browser: play 6-max or full-ring PLO against about 50 computer opponents, with an advisor that shows opponents' likely ranges and reports by hand type, position and street.
Poker Skill
Free app that teaches Hold'em from the ground up: short lessons from hand rankings to ranges, a daily puzzle, and hands against AI with a coach who explains every decision.
Poker Trainer
Beginner trainer in the browser and on mobile: play simulated hands, pick an action and get instant feedback, with quizzes on hand rankings, pot odds, outs and preflop charts.
WSOP Academy
Free mobile training app from WSOP and GGPoker: short game-like lessons with an animated Daniel Negreanu, real-hand practice, challenges against Academy pros and a monthly Poker IQ Test. WSOP+ tiers unlock more challenges.
Free Training3
Johns Hopkins Poker Course
Avi Rubin's free Johns Hopkins course that takes complete novices to above-average no-limit hold'em cash players: lecture videos and slides from rules and side pots through equity, preflop and postflop play.
PokerStars Learn
PokerStars' free poker school: short video courses (Basics, Core, Improvers, Spin & Go, Tournaments, 6-max Cash, Mindset), strategy articles, a beginner ebook and a Discord. No sign-up required.
Solver Masterclass (Solver School)
Michael Lukich's former paid Solver School course, released free on YouTube module by module: game theory and how solvers work, building game trees, then turning sims into macro and micro strategy.
In-Person Training2
Champion Maker Seminar
Advanced Poker Training's live seminar at BestBet Jacksonville (Feb 27-28, 2027): a tournament day and a cash day with Alexander Fitzgerald, Steve Blay, Kenna James and Bryan Paris. 40 seats.
Mixed Games Academy
Melbourne school for mixed game poker: free guides and cheat sheets for the draw, stud and Omaha games, the MGA Foundations course that gets new players table-ready, and its own live tournaments and series.
Training Sites1
Poker Power
Poker lessons for women: a 4-week beginner series of live virtual group classes with women instructors, $5 Teaching Tables, and a free practice app.