Training
Training sites and courses to sharpen your game.
Video & Course Platforms62
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 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.
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: 260 lessons on practical poker math, opponent reads, exploitation, bet sizing and disciplined execution, with quizzes, field work and a tournament bonus section.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 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.
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 Training6
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.
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.
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.