Learn the math first. Win the spots later.
Bite-sized lessons covering poker foundations — pot odds, ranges, player types, bluffing, raise-vs-call theory — plus a full tournament track (ICM, bubble play, satellite math, bounty/PKO math, final table dynamics). Each lesson has a plain-English read and a built-in practice drill, so you don't just nod along: you actually try it.
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Pot odds & equity
The price you're being offered, and the equity you need to call it. Learn the rule of 2 and 4 — and the spot where everyone gets it wrong.
VPIP, PFR & 3-bet
The three numbers that classify every opponent at the table. Read the gap between them and you read the player.
Core skills
Reading range charts
Hand notation, position theory, and how to use the chart viewer to study any opening or defense range like a solver.
Building player profiles
Nit, TAG, LAG, station, maniac, whale. Spot each type live, and apply the exploit shift that beats them.
Raise vs call
The single decision that separates winning players from break-even ones. When raising prints, when calling realizes, and how to tell which is which.
Bluffing fundamentals
Why bluffs win, when they don't, and the four levers that turn a guess into math.
Go deeper
Implied & reverse implied odds
When future winnings flip a losing call into a winning one — and the reverse trap of paying off when you make the second-best hand.
ICM & chip-vs-dollar EV
Chips don't equal dollars near the money. Learn the pressure points that turn marginal spots into max-fold or max-fold-the-table.
Tournament specifics
Bubble & pay-jump play
ICM pressure isn't symmetric. Who you can attack, who you can't, and the medium-stack mentality leaks that cost real money.
Satellite math
Where folding the nuts is correct. Equity per seat, why chip-EV breaks, and the math that makes satellites their own game.
Bounty & PKO math
Knockout tournaments have a third currency. When to call wider for the KO, why chip leaders should tighten in PKO, and the fastest-growing tournament format nobody teaches well.
Final table dynamics
Pay jumps stack up at the final 9. When chip-EV diverges hardest from real-money EV, and the spots where short stacks have leverage over big stacks.
Read a lesson, then put it to work at the trainer.
Theory is cheap. The trainer drops you into randomised spots, grades your decision, and shows the EV math behind it.