Training
Training sites and courses to sharpen your game.
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2024-2025 Cash Game Dominance: Exploiting $1/$2, $1/$3, and $2/$5 Live
Alexander Fitzgerald's 25+ hour course on live $1/$2 to $2/$5: 22 hours of drills and 3.5 hours of lessons on multiway pots, double barrels, slowplaying, facing three-bets and river value bets.
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 Cash Game Strategy
Upswing Poker course on advanced No-Limit Hold'em cash game strategy.
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.
Bubble Domination!
Alexander Fitzgerald's one-lesson tournament module with quizzes on bubble play: when to apply pressure, when to get out, hero folds and physical tells.
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.
Cash Game Chaos: Beat The Maniac!
Alexander Fitzgerald's cash game class on loose-aggressive maniacs: an hour of concepts, 3+ hours of quizzes and an audio wrap-up on spotting them, trapping them and making the big folds.
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.
Crushing PLO Tournaments
Dylan Weisman's Pot-Limit Omaha tournament course on Upswing Poker, distilled from five years of preparation and more than 1,000 hours of custom solves.
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.
Deep Stack Dominance
Nick Petrangelo's Upswing Poker course on maximizing win rate in deep-stacked tournament situations.
Delusion Killer Masterclass
Vinton Mojdeh's self-paced course for live cash players built on his PIPO system: 260 lessons on practical poker math, opponent reads, exploitation, bet sizing and disciplined execution, with quizzes, field work and a tournament bonus section.
Destroy Live Cash
Garrett Adelstein's live cash game masterclass on Upswing Poker, in which one of the most feared high-stakes live players opens his playbook for serious cash game players.
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.
Elite Cash Game Exploits
Uri Peleg's Upswing Poker course on exploitative cash game play: identifying opponents' leaks and adjusting to punish them.
Exploit & Conquer
Upswing Poker course on taking advantage of 62 common mistakes opponents make at the table.
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.
Final Table Supremacy!
Alexander Fitzgerald's 12.5-hour final table course with hundreds of quizzes: the four biggest final table mistakes, adjusting to chip distributions and opponent types, and a one-hour crash-course episode.
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.
Heads-Up Master Class (The End Boss System)
Doug Polk's heads-up No-Limit Hold'em course with his longtime coach Fabian Adler, sold on Upswing Poker as the End Boss System: his most complete heads-up blueprint.
High Stakes MTT Sessions
Upswing Poker's advanced multi-table tournament course built around high-stakes sessions.
How To Get A BIG STACK At The Series!
Alexander Fitzgerald's 3.5-hour quiz-based class on building a stack early in re-entry tournaments: manufactured pots, value lines, overbets and exploiting players willing to gamble.
How To Get A HUGE STACK Before The Final Table
Alexander Fitzgerald's 3.5-hour tournament class on the stretch from the bubble to the final table: post-bubble traps, pressuring players who ladder and using stack distributions.
How To Threebet EVERYBODY From The Big Blind!
Alexander Fitzgerald's 14-hour course with hundreds of quizzes on three-betting aggressively from the big blind against in-position raisers, live and online.
ICM Unmasked
Upswing Poker course on thinking about the Independent Chip Model (ICM) like a super high roller champion.
Inside the Arena
Upswing Poker course giving behind-the-scenes access to elite players' strategy sessions.
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.
Live PLO Dominance
Upswing Poker course on beating soft live Pot-Limit Omaha games.
Local Legends: Winning Live Small Stakes Tournaments
Alexander Fitzgerald's 10+ hour course on local casino tournaments, from the first hand to the final table, ending with a one-hour quick-review episode to watch before you play.
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 Bluffing In One Class
Alexander Fitzgerald's class on winning pots without cards in cash games and tournaments: which boards to attack, which opponents to bluff and how to keep your non-showdown winnings up.
Master Deep Stack Cash Games In One Class
Alexander Fitzgerald's deep-stacked cash game course: 30+ videos with drills and quizzes on five player types, hand reading, multiway pots, tilt and exploit-first strategy.
Master Flush Draw Flops In One Class
Alexander Fitzgerald's 3-hour class on two-tone flops: what theory says, what players actually do, and how to exploit the gap, with quizzes and reports on real player tendencies.
Master Hero Calling In One Class
Alexander Fitzgerald's 4-hour class on bluff-catching: the patterns that give away players who bluff too often, when a hero call is right and when to fold, with rapid-fire quizzes.
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 Monotone Flops In One Class
Alexander Fitzgerald's module on monotone flops: how often anyone has a flush, playing medium-strength hands, when to fold, bluff or keep drawing, and getting paid when you flop it.
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.
Master Small Stakes Cash Games In One Class 2.0
Alexander Fitzgerald's course on exploiting recreational players in small-stakes cash games: five hours of rapid-fire drilling, then slower quizzes and reviews to make the decisions stick.
Master Straddled Pots In One Class
Alexander Fitzgerald's 4-hour class on straddled pots in $1/$2 to $2/$5 cash games: hands and bet sizes against a straddle, when to trap and when to bluff players uncomfortable in bigger pots.
Master Tournament Poker In One Class 2.0
Alexander Fitzgerald's 4-hour tournament update drawn from coaching students through the Las Vegas summer series: which plays stopped working, stack-building bet sizes and new check-raise spots.
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.
Mixed Game Mastery
Jake Abdalla's mixed games course on Upswing Poker, covering games such as Razz, Stud, Stud 8, Omaha 8 and 2-7 Triple Draw.
Modern Tournament Mastery
Upswing Poker's tournament course by Tim Adams and Daniel Dvoress, featuring Stephen Chidwick: every stage of an MTT, from early chip accumulation to final table ICM.
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 Launch Pad
Dylan Weisman's introductory Pot-Limit Omaha course on Upswing Poker, built to get Hold'em players comfortable and confident in PLO.
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, now 30+ hours: the original 23 lessons, challenges and 200 quizzes, plus 2026 add-on courses on unbluffable players and games where nobody folds, and Blay's updates 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.
Precision Poker: Mastering Methodology
Upswing Poker course on building your own poker strategy in a style that suits you.
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.
Redline Rocketship
Uri Peleg's Upswing Poker course on improving your red line: winning more pots without having to show your cards.
Road To The Bracelet 2025: Dominate The Series
Alexander Fitzgerald's nearly 20-hour WSOP preparation course, organized by tournament stage from early levels through the bubble to heads-up, with ICM and stack-based strategy.
Road to Victory (Tournament Mastery)
Upswing Poker's extensive tournament course taught by a group of top tournament pros.
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.
Smash Live Cash
Upswing Poker's in-depth training course for serious live cash game players.
Super High Roller Mechanics
Upswing Poker course on high-stakes tournament play.
The $7 Postflop Playbook
Upswing Poker's $7 entry course for No-Limit Hold'em: a hand-category system for making quick, profitable postflop decisions without solver software.
The Championship Path: Live Poker Tournament Strategies for 2024
Alexander Fitzgerald's live tournament course on the mistakes that leave players bubbling or short, data on how opponents play and the counters, plus a two-hour final table crash course.
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 Blueprint
Uri Peleg's Upswing Poker course built on overarching principles: easy-to-follow concepts and strategies for making solid decisions at the table.
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.
The Tournament Blueprint
Uri Peleg's follow-up to The Poker Blueprint on Upswing Poker, applying his strategic Blueprint to tournament play.
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 1.0
The original Upswing Poker Lab membership for No-Limit Hold'em, still sold alongside Lab 2.0: structured cash and tournament training from Doug Polk, Ryan Fee and the original Lab coaches.
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 founded in 2015 by Doug Polk, Ryan Fee and Matt Colletta: the Upswing Lab membership, standalone NLHE, PLO, tournament, heads-up and mixed-game courses, the Lucid Poker GTO trainer, and free resources including the Preflop Prodigy charts app, strategy articles, 50 quizzes and the Level-Up podcast.
Victory Vault
Upswing Poker course in which tournament pros Darren Elias and Nick Petrangelo analyze tournament hands together.
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 Training21
10 Laws of Live Poker
Free Upswing Poker guide to ten core principles for beating live poker games.
20 Rules to Crush 3-Bet Pots
Free Upswing Poker guide with 20 rules for playing 3-bet pots well.
Cardle
Free daily poker quiz from Doug Polk's Lucid Poker: five pro-picked spots a day with instant solver-backed ratings and explanations, plus streak tracking.
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.
Quiz: 10 Fundamental Preflop Decisions
Free Upswing Poker quiz on ten fundamental preflop decisions, made with newer players in mind.
Quiz: Do You Have the Skills to Smash Live $2/$5?
Free Upswing Poker quiz built around live $2/$5 No-Limit Hold'em cash game spots.
Quiz: Poker 101 for Beginners
Free 10-question Upswing Poker quiz covering the most fundamental No-Limit Hold'em skills.
Quiz: The Poker Math Quiz
Free Upswing Poker quiz testing the core math behind poker decisions.
Short Deck Hold'em Guide
Free Upswing Poker guide to Short Deck (6+) Hold'em rules and strategy.
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.
The Bankroll Bible
Published 2018
Jonathan Little's free, long-form PokerCoaching.com guide to bankroll management: why your roll shouldn't be an ATM, how win rate and variance set the buy-ins you need for cash games and tournaments, when to move up or down, and how rake and travel eat into it.
Upswing Poker Articles: Advanced
Upswing Poker's free strategy articles filtered to advanced level, including solver-based theory and high-stakes hand breakdowns.
Upswing Poker Articles: Intermediate
Upswing Poker's free strategy articles filtered to intermediate level.
Upswing Poker Articles: Introductory
Upswing Poker's free strategy articles filtered to introductory level: fundamentals for newer players.
Upswing Poker Quizzes
Upswing Poker's 50 free poker quizzes: real hand spots with explanations, filterable by cash, tournaments, live, online, PLO and skill level.
Upswing Poker Strategy Articles
Upswing Poker's free strategy blog: well over a thousand articles on cash games, tournaments, live and online play and PLO, filterable by level from introductory to advanced, with new articles every week.
Vinton Poker Free 5-Day Video Course
Vinton Mojdeh's free email course for live $1/$2 and $2/$5 players: one video a day for five days on four common leaks, with homework, ending with the LeakHunter assessment.
VP Blog
Vinton Poker's blog on small-stakes live cash games: student hand reviews, bet sizing, player types and the leaks that cost you money.
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.