Texas Hold’em course catalog

Foundation · 12 min

The rules, hand rankings and language of Texas Hold’em.

You’ll learn to: Identify the best five-card hand and understand the legal betting actions.

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Foundation · 8 min

Use action order to make more informed decisions.

You’ll learn to: Explain why later position lets you play with more information.

Related reading: poker positions

Foundation · 10 min

Separate the price of a call from the chance of winning.

You’ll learn to: Calculate the equity needed for a call to break even, and distinguish clean outs (cards that make a winning hand) from a guaranteed win.

Related reading: how to calculate pot odds

Developing · 12 min

Read hand notation, recognise domination and match a hand to its position and stack depth.

You’ll learn to: Explain why the same two cards can call for different decisions as position, previous action and effective stacks change.

Developing · 12 min

Identify connected and suited boards, count improving cards accurately, and assess how the flop affects both players’ ranges.

You’ll learn to: Describe what a flop makes possible before choosing an action, without confusing a draw, a made hand and a range advantage.

Developing · 10 min

Read the new card and make a plan for the river.

You’ll learn to: Recognise changes in board texture and give a turn bet a specific purpose.

Developing · 12 min

Distinguish value bets from bluffs, compare the calls different sizes receive, and calculate the price of a bluff.

You’ll learn to: State what a bet is trying to make the opponent do and calculate the expected return of a simple value bet or bluff.

Developing · 12 min

Assess the price of a river call, test a range estimate and use card removal to refine it.

You’ll learn to: Combine the exact call price with an explicit range estimate, and distinguish a sound decision from one fortunate result.

Intermediate · 16 min

Track effective stacks, build the pot correctly and separate commitment from sunk cost.

You’ll learn to: Calculate remaining effective stacks and stack-to-pot ratio, then use them without treating any ratio as an automatic reason to commit your whole stack.

Intermediate · 16 min

Compare steal risk, blind defence prices and the pot you will play after a call.

You’ll learn to: Explain how an opening size changes risk and opponents’ incentives without using hand strength as a visible sizing signal.

Intermediate · 16 min

Separate a discounted call from a profitable call, and recognise when the action is truly closed.

You’ll learn to: Use call price, position, range strength and equity realisation to evaluate blind defence.

Intermediate · 16 min

Handle the extra player, understand completing, and prepare responses before entering a pot.

You’ll learn to: Distinguish blind-versus-blind play from facing an open, and form a coherent raise or limp plan for the stated configuration.

Intermediate · 16 min

Understand raise totals, choose hands for a reason and anticipate the response.

You’ll learn to: Distinguish linear and polar raising plans while correctly pricing and sizing a preflop reraise.

Intermediate · 16 min

Recalculate the price of continuing, account for position and test a four-bet before committing chips.

You’ll learn to: Compare folding, calling and reraising using the new price and range rather than trying to justify your earlier opening raise.

Intermediate · 16 min

Distinguish a reraise after callers from a raise over limpers, and account for everyone who can continue.

You’ll learn to: Price multi-opponent preflop raises and identify why extra dead money does not guarantee profitable aggression.

Intermediate · 16 min

Compare both players’ possible hands, accounting for how often each hand reaches the flop.

You’ll learn to: Distinguish a hand’s equity from a range’s equity and avoid inferring exact strategies from broad board labels.

Intermediate · 16 min

Separate the strongest possible hand from the player most likely to hold very strong hands.

You’ll learn to: Identify the current nuts (the strongest possible hand), compare their concentration in ranges and account for changes caused by future cards.

Intermediate · 16 min

Name your target, price a bluff and choose a size that supports the next street.

You’ll learn to: Connect a flop bet to value, fold equity, improvement and the cost of checking without treating an earlier raise as a reason you must bet.

Intermediate · 16 min

Preserve useful hands, respond to later pressure and build a delayed betting plan.

You’ll learn to: Explain what checking gains and costs, and update ranges after a checked flop without treating a check as surrender.

Advanced · 16 min

Combine value and drawing hands, calculate raise totals and prepare for resistance.

You’ll learn to: Build a flop check-raise plan for the stated situation. Assess legal raise sizes, the chance of a fold and whether cards that improve your hand would win.

Advanced · 16 min

Account for every live range, action behind you and the quality of your drawing hands.

You’ll learn to: Explain why heads-up bluffing and calling rules cannot be transferred unchanged to pots with three or more players.

Intermediate · 16 min

Account for known cards, distinguish draws from made hands and assess what a single-suit board makes possible.

You’ll learn to: Evaluate unusual flop textures through exact card availability, hand rankings and conditional range composition.

Intermediate · 16 min

Choose second barrels by range changes, value targets and the river pot they create.

You’ll learn to: Explain why a turn bet earns its place in a multi-street plan and calculate the river sizing it leaves.

Intermediate · 16 min

Use a delayed continuation bet while accounting for the hands that remain in both checking ranges.

You’ll learn to: Distinguish a delayed c-bet from a probe and choose value, bluff and checking candidates after a checked flop.

Intermediate · 16 min

Construct turn probes around the opponent’s checking range and your value targets.

You’ll learn to: Explain when a turn probe differs from an automatic stab and assess how a turn card changes checked-back ranges.

Intermediate · 16 min

Compare value sizes using calling frequency, worse calls and exposure to raises.

You’ll learn to: Calculate the incremental value of different river bets and identify assumptions that could reverse the preferred size.

Intermediate · 18 min

Separate absolute hand rank, weighted bluff frequency and the price of a river call.

You’ll learn to: Determine whether a hand actually beats the betting range’s bluffs and use weighted evidence to make a river decision.

Advanced · 18 min

Measure how your exact cards remove calls, bluffs and the hands you want to fold.

You’ll learn to: Translate card removal into changes in a stated range and recognise when opposing blocker effects cancel.

Advanced · 18 min

Connect large river bets to polarisation, bluff ratios and the opponent’s strongest hands.

You’ll learn to: Calculate an overbet’s bluffing threshold and distinguish balance in a simplified model from a reliable real-world recommendation.

Intermediate · 18 min

Translate the 169-cell range grid into specific card combinations, weighted by how often they are played.

You’ll learn to: Count pairs, suited and offsuit hands, apply card removal and calculate a weighted range’s actual size.

Advanced · 18 min

Use actions and card removal to revise a range without pretending to know the opponent’s hand.

You’ll learn to: Calculate a conditional range from prior combination weights and action frequencies, then test how uncertain assumptions affect it.

Intermediate · 20 min

Count overlapping outs, distinguish one card from two, and avoid equating a completed draw with a win.

You’ll learn to: Compute exact card-completion probabilities using the stated known cards and identify dirty or double-counted outs.

Related reading: poker outs chart

Intermediate · 20 min

Compare complete decisions using net outcomes, consistent baselines and clearly stated uncertainty.

You’ll learn to: Calculate the expected value of calls and bets across different responses, distinguish it from the most likely outcome, and keep chip EV separate from tournament prize value.

Intermediate · 20 min

Distinguish how often an opponent folds from what those folds are worth, and include both immediate wins and showdown outcomes.

You’ll learn to: Calculate bluff break-even rates, evaluate a semi-bluff model and identify when folding out worse hands adds little value.

Advanced · 20 min

Understand why raw equity alone can misrepresent a hand’s value when more betting remains.

You’ll learn to: Distinguish check-down equity from strategic expected value and interpret a realisation factor under a consistent baseline.

Advanced · 20 min

Combine hand strength, action frequencies and coverage of future boards into a strategy you can explain and check.

You’ll learn to: Build a coherent simplified betting range, preserve meaningful alternatives and audit the assumptions behind a range chart.

Intermediate · 16 min

Translate chips into decisions as blind levels, effective stacks and the chips at stake in side pots change.

You’ll learn to: Compare the current stacks and explain why one chip count can require several different plans.

Intermediate · 16 min

Understand how antes change the opening reward, blind defence and the cost of waiting.

You’ll learn to: Calculate an ante pot correctly and test a steal model without treating a profitable example as a universal opening strategy.

Advanced · 18 min

Compare shoving, calling and smaller opens without treating a particular stack size as an automatic action rule.

You’ll learn to: Use a complete shove tree and explain why a hand can be a profitable shove but an unprofitable call.

Advanced · 18 min

Consider the opener’s range, players still to act and chips already committed before reraising all-in.

You’ll learn to: Calculate an illustrative reshove tree and identify how folds, equity when called and additional players alter the result.

Advanced · 20 min

Calculate a small Independent Chip Model (ICM) example and understand what the model leaves out.

You’ll learn to: Compute finish probabilities and prize equity in a three-player example, then calculate an equity threshold that accounts for payouts.

Advanced · 18 min

Assess covering stacks, short stacks and prize jumps without reducing every bubble to tighter play.

You’ll learn to: Explain how stack relationships and payout structure change incentives, then evaluate a given prize-equity decision.

Advanced · 18 min

Reassess positions, hand selection and the value of tournament chips when only two players remain.

You’ll learn to: Explain heads-up action order, evaluate blind pressure and distinguish the value of chips with two players remaining from earlier payout pressure.

Intermediate · 16 min

Replace permanent player labels with specific, testable estimates tied to real opportunities.

You’ll learn to: Build a contextual opponent note, connect it to an exploit hypothesis and state what evidence would change that hypothesis.

Intermediate · 18 min

Practice raise increments, oversized chips and reopening rules with clear tournament examples.

You’ll learn to: Identify the intended wager, calculate a legal minimum raise and distinguish a short all-in from reopened action.

Intermediate · 18 min

Reconstruct a hand, isolate uncertain assumptions and turn one review into a focused practice task.

You’ll learn to: Produce a hand record another person can reconstruct and prioritize a decision for review before looking at its outcome.

Intermediate · 18 min

Distinguish expectation, streaks, sampling uncertainty and evidence of actual improvement.

You’ll learn to: Calculate simple streak and sampling examples, and explain why a short result graph cannot establish a stable poker edge.

Advanced · 20 min

Build the correct model, interpret close actions and test ideas on unseen examples.

You’ll learn to: Audit a solver setup, interpret hypothetical action values and convert a solution into a principle with explicit limits.

Intermediate · 16 min

Build a practical routine for attention, time pressure and stopping when your process deteriorates.

You’ll learn to: Identify a personal decision-quality warning sign and create a specific response that can be reviewed after practice.

Advanced · 20 min

Combine pot accounting, range updates, conditional decisions and outcome-independent review in one worked hand.

You’ll learn to: Produce a complete multi-street explanation with correct accounting, explicit assumptions and a review question that remains useful whether you win or lose.

Intermediate · 20 min

Account for percentage fees and caps before accepting a marginal cash-game edge.

You’ll learn to: Calculate EV measured from the current decision after a given fee and identify when rake reverses the preferred action.

Advanced · 22 min

Evaluate future winnings and reverse implied losses through a complete plan for later play with deep stacks.

You’ll learn to: Compare deep-stack plans for later play using probabilities measured from the current decision and the additional amounts won or lost later.

Intermediate · 22 min

Compare calls, small raises and shoves without importing tournament payout pressure.

You’ll learn to: Evaluate a shallow cash-game action tree and distinguish an immediate all-in calculation from a multi-street plan for later play.

Intermediate · 20 min

Recalculate stack units, action order and legal bet amounts under explicitly declared straddle rules.

You’ll learn to: Reconstruct a straddled hand’s action order, effective depth, raise increments and postflop pot without changing measurement units midway.

Intermediate · 21 min

Rebuild opening and response assumptions when more players remain behind.

You’ll learn to: Evaluate how player count, seat position and conditional responses change an opening model while distinguishing assumed independent responses from observed behaviour.

Intermediate · 21 min

Compare overlimping, isolating and folding with clear plans for play against multiple opponents.

You’ll learn to: Choose between supplied preflop strategies by modelling joint folds, caller counts, position and net continuation payoffs.

Advanced · 23 min

Distinguish the opener’s decision with another player still to act from the original caller’s later price.

You’ll learn to: Reconstruct the different response trees faced by the original raiser and caller after a squeeze, including changed prices and players still to act.

Advanced · 23 min

Carry a four-bet size through folds, calls and five-bet branches.

You’ll learn to: Build a legal four-bet tree with correct incremental investment, the pot and remaining stacks after a call and an independent response to a five-bet shove.

Advanced · 23 min

Evaluate cold calls and cold four-bets while the original raiser can still act.

You’ll learn to: Compare cold-entry strategies using action order, range filtering, squeeze risk and incremental commitment rather than a heads-up price alone.

Intermediate · 22 min

Evaluate the low entry price against a big blind who can still raise and several future opponents.

You’ll learn to: Compare completing, folding and raising after limpers while including the big blind’s response and multiway realisation.

Advanced · 23 min

Use the information available when acting last to compare immediate betting, checking back and delayed aggression.

You’ll learn to: Build an in-position three-bettor’s flop and turn strategy that accounts for check-raises and uses the option to check back selectively.

Advanced · 23 min

Build a checking range that can respond when the caller bets after you check.

You’ll learn to: Construct out-of-position bet and check strategies with explicit responses to stabs, delayed bets and checked-through turns.

Advanced · 23 min

Compare calls, raises and bets after a missed continuation bet with position preserved.

You’ll learn to: Build an in-position caller’s response tree that distinguishes cheap immediate equity, future pressure and selective bets after checks.

Advanced · 24 min

Carry a preflop call through flop pressure, turn filtering and a river response.

You’ll learn to: Evaluate an out-of-position caller’s complete hand strategy while distinguishing apparent equity from realised returns and tracking ranges through repeated barrels.

Advanced · 23 min

Use low stack-to-pot ratios without treating every pair as automatically committed.

You’ll learn to: Compare low-SPR bets, checks and all-in responses using filtered ranges, remaining investment and the pot and stacks available for later bets.

Intermediate · 20 min

Interpret a lead using its size and selected range, then compare calls and raises through later action.

You’ll learn to: Distinguish the price of continuing from evidence about a leading range and construct a response with plans for different turn cards and actions.

Intermediate · 20 min

Track raise-to amounts, the opponent’s raising range and later decisions after your flop bet is raised.

You’ll learn to: Calculate the incremental cost of a flop raise and distinguish an all-in equity calculation from a call that leaves later betting decisions.

Intermediate · 20 min

Price a turn raise while accounting for river payments, improvement cards and river betting ranges weighted toward strong hands.

You’ll learn to: Plan a turn call by specifying its possible river outcomes rather than interpreting the immediate price as a commitment to call all rivers.

Intermediate · 20 min

Reconstruct value targets and bluff candidates after the flop and turn check through.

You’ll learn to: Compare river betting with checking using the complete checked line, size-dependent responses and a planned response to raises.

Intermediate · 20 min

Reassess the call price and raising range independently of why you made the original bet.

You’ll learn to: Compute the incremental price of calling a river raise, weight its value and bluff combinations, and test which assumptions change the answer.

Advanced · 22 min

Evaluate a call by accounting for players who may call or raise behind you.

You’ll learn to: Calculate a call’s expected value when other players can still act, and find the response frequency that makes it break even.

Advanced · 22 min

Compare bet sizes using the combined responses of both opponents, counting each possible outcome once.

You’ll learn to: Build a multiway river value-bet comparison that accounts for zero, one or two callers, stronger hands and raises.

Advanced · 22 min

Recalculate the pot, remaining stacks and joint ranges when a preflop squeeze gets more than one caller.

You’ll learn to: Carry a squeezed pot through multiway flop and turn branches using correct contributions, conditional ranges and joint fold probabilities.

Advanced · 22 min

Separate contributions into main and side pots, then calculate the expected return from each pot a hand can win.

You’ll learn to: Determine pot eligibility, return unmatched chips, and evaluate an incremental side-pot call with separate main-pot and side-pot shares.

Advanced · 22 min

Evaluate a call after a bet and another call by considering both opponents’ possible hands and any split pots.

You’ll learn to: Calculate river overcall EV from compatible weighted joint holdings, including ties, instead of multiplying unsupported heads-up win rates.

Advanced · 24 min

Calculate how much more a drawing call must win from the opponent, allowing for payment frequency and extra losses when improvements still lose.

You’ll learn to: Calculate the additional winnings a draw needs to break even, then check stack limits, payment frequency and improvements that still lose.

Related reading: implied odds

Advanced · 24 min

Calculate a sequence of bets using a constant fraction of the pot, then compare it with other legal sequences.

You’ll learn to: Calculate constant-pot-fraction bets that exhaust the effective stack over a stated number of heads-up bet-call streets, while separating feasibility from strategic value.

Advanced · 24 min

Solve both sides of a simplified one-street game with only value hands and bluffs, and distinguish defence frequency from calling equity.

You’ll learn to: Derive bluff indifference, bluff-catcher indifference and the betting composition of a complete simplified game, then identify assumptions that prevent direct transfer to full poker.

Advanced · 24 min

Find the input values at which the preferred action changes, then compare expected value or regret across plausible models.

You’ll learn to: Distinguish input uncertainty from outcome randomness, solve a decision threshold, and report which choices are supported across a stated uncertainty interval.

Advanced · 24 min

Measure the cost of simpler decisions, allow for opponent adjustments, and preserve valuable exceptions.

You’ll learn to: Evaluate a practical simplification using hand frequencies, differences in action EV, how often the decision occurs and a stated assumption about opponent responses.

Intermediate · 20 min

Compare opening sizes using every response and a consistent chip baseline.

You’ll learn to: Evaluate an opening policy by combining folds, calls and reraises with their full continuation values.

Intermediate · 20 min

Track the remaining stacks after a small raise and the decisions on the flop and turn.

You’ll learn to: Construct and compare non-all-in continuation policies at medium tournament depth.

Intermediate · 20 min

Evaluate shoves, small raises and legal limps as distinct strategies with their own responses.

You’ll learn to: Compare short-stack opening actions using supplied fold, call and raise-response branches.

Intermediate · 20 min

Separate ante money, a posted blind and the future cost of defending.

You’ll learn to: Calculate a short-stack defence price and identify when later action prevents a direct equity comparison.

Intermediate · 20 min

Update action order, blind exposure and the objective after a table becomes short-handed.

You’ll learn to: Create a four-seat decision map that distinguishes opening opportunities, response probabilities and payout pressure.

Advanced · 24 min

Calculate the winning probability needed to break even using the prize value of winning, losing and folding.

You’ll learn to: Calculate an ICM risk premium and distinguish a threshold verified within a simplified model from a playable hand range.

Advanced · 24 min

Track every player’s prize equity when short stacks play against each other or a larger stack risks elimination.

You’ll learn to: Compare all-player stack configurations and show why uninvolved players can gain prize equity without gaining chips.

Advanced · 24 min

Evaluate survival in an equal-ticket model and compare it with a winner-take-all prize.

You’ll learn to: Calculate the winning probability needed to call in an equal-prize model, using the stated qualification rules and uncertainty.

Advanced · 24 min

Keep immediately paid bounty cash separate from prize equity and future bounty effects.

You’ll learn to: Calculate the immediate bounty contribution under declared coverage and split rules, then identify missing continuation value.

Advanced · 24 min

Use the remaining prize distribution, activation stage and elimination eligibility.

You’ll learn to: Compute expected immediate bounty value and update it after revealed prizes without assuming certainty.

Intermediate · 22 min

Turn raw histories into a documented set of comparable decision opportunities.

You’ll learn to: Create a dataset specification that detects missing actions, duplicates, incompatible contexts and outcome-based selection.

Intermediate · 22 min

Count relevant opportunities and report uncertainty before using an observed tendency.

You’ll learn to: Calculate a conditional frequency, interpret a supplied Wilson interval and identify dependence or context changes.

Intermediate · 22 min

Calculate an adjustment’s expected gain, break-even threshold and evidence requirements.

You’ll learn to: Build an offline exploit worksheet that separates model EV, observed outcomes and opponent adaptation.

Advanced · 22 min

Create a table of inputs that shows their combined effects and when the preferred action changes.

You’ll learn to: Design and document a repeatable sensitivity experiment across multiple uncertain poker-model inputs.

Intermediate · 22 min

Separate remembered answers from applying a decision method to unfamiliar cases.

You’ll learn to: Build a practice plan with unfamiliar test questions, scores for reasoning and a later review.

Advanced · 24 min

Group every legal future card once and calculate the weighted value of the planned actions.

You’ll learn to: Build a runout map with no overlapping categories, calculate its weighted value and update it when new information changes the legal deck.

Intermediate · 22 min

Carry the small-blind completion through checks, isolation raises and flop aggression.

You’ll learn to: Build a heads-up limp policy that respects action order, raise responses and resulting pot and stack sizes.

Advanced · 24 min

Count every legal completed board, including changes of lead and ties, then apply the opponent’s range weights.

You’ll learn to: Calculate exact showdown equity for exposed matchups and combine compatible range branches without double-counting runouts.

Intermediate · 22 min

Calculate call prices against small bets, minimum raises and unusually large bets.

You’ll learn to: Distinguish legal sizing, immediate price and complete continuation value when an opponent uses an unusual size.

Advanced · 24 min

Distinguish how accurately a solver handles its stated game from missing actions and incorrect inputs.

You’ll learn to: Write a solver-result audit that distinguishes game specification, numerical convergence, response assumptions and scope of conclusions.