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.

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.

Foundation · 10 min

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

You’ll learn to: Calculate break-even calling equity and distinguish clean outs from guaranteed wins.

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 deserve different decisions as position, previous action and effective stacks change.

Developing · 12 min

Identify connected and suited boards, count cleanly, and connect the flop to 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 from a bluff, compare calls you can earn, and calculate the price of a bluff.

You’ll learn to: State what a bet is trying to make the opponent do and evaluate a simple value or bluff example numerically.

Developing · 12 min

Price a bluff-catch, test a range estimate and use card removal without turning it into a guess.

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 stack-off rule.

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 realization 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

Reprice your hand, 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 defending an earlier opening decision.

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

Move from one attractive hand to the weighted distribution of both players’ possibilities.

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 current nuts, 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 the betting lead as a command.

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: Construct a conditional flop check-raise plan while keeping legal sizing, fold equity and clean improvement separate.

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

Count what the board removes, distinguish draws from made hands and avoid overreading a single suit.

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 without treating either checking range as empty.

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 recognize when opposing blocker effects cancel.

Advanced · 18 min

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

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

Intermediate · 18 min

Translate the 169-cell range grid into physical cards and frequency-weighted combinations.

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 under a stated information set and identify dirty or double-counted outs.

Intermediate · 20 min

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

You’ll learn to: Calculate call and multi-branch betting EV, distinguish it from the most likely outcome, and keep chip EV separate from tournament prize value.

Intermediate · 20 min

Distinguish fold probability from fold value and combine immediate wins with showdown branches.

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 can misprice a hand when more betting remains.

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

Advanced · 20 min

Combine hand strength, weighted frequencies and future coverage into an auditable strategy.

You’ll learn to: Build a coherent toy 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 side-pot exposure change.

You’ll learn to: Build a current stack map 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 confusing a profitable model with a universal opening chart.

Advanced · 18 min

Compare shoving, calling and smaller opens without turning a stack threshold into a 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

Connect the opener’s range, players behind and committed chips before reraising all-in.

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

Advanced · 20 min

Calculate a small independent-chip-model example and understand what the model leaves out.

You’ll learn to: Compute finish probabilities and prize equity in a three-player example, then derive a payout-sensitive equity threshold.

Advanced · 18 min

Read 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 supplied prize-equity decision.

Advanced · 18 min

Reset positions, hand standards and tournament utility when only two players remain.

You’ll learn to: Explain heads-up action order, evaluate blind pressure and distinguish final-two utility 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 reproducible hand record 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 survives either outcome.

Intermediate · 20 min

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

You’ll learn to: Calculate decision-relative EV after a supplied fee and identify when rake reverses the preferred action.

Advanced · 22 min

Evaluate future winnings and reverse implied losses across a complete deep-stack branch.

You’ll learn to: Compare deep-stack continuation policies using unconditional branch probabilities and incremental future receipts and losses.

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 continuation policy.

Intermediate · 20 min

Rebuild units, action order and legal prices 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 without treating illustrative independence assumptions as observed behavior.

Intermediate · 21 min

Compare overlimping, isolating and folding with explicit multiway continuation branches.

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

Advanced · 23 min

Distinguish the opener’s non-closing decision 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, called-pot geometry and an independent response to a five-bet shove.

Advanced · 23 min

Evaluate cold calls and cold four-bets while the original raiser remains live.

You’ll learn to: Compare cold-entry policies 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 live big blind and several future opponents.

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

Advanced · 23 min

Use the last action to compare immediate betting, checking back and delayed aggression.

You’ll learn to: Build an in-position three-bettor’s flop and turn policy that prices check-raises and uses guaranteed checks through selectively.

Advanced · 23 min

Build a checking range that can respond when the caller bets behind.

You’ll learn to: Construct out-of-position bet and check policies 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 policy while distinguishing apparent equity from realized 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 future betting geometry.

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 that survives contrasting turn branches.

Intermediate · 20 min

Track raise-to amounts, selected ranges and future decisions after your flop bet meets resistance.

You’ll learn to: Calculate the incremental cost of a flop raise and distinguish an all-in equity comparison from a non-all-in continuation tree.

Intermediate · 20 min

Price a turn raise while accounting for river payments, improvement cards and value-heavy continuation branches.

You’ll learn to: Build a turn-call policy with explicit 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

Treat a river raise as a fresh range and price problem, separate from the purpose of 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

Value a call that may be followed by overcalls or raises, using complete conditional branches.

You’ll learn to: Calculate a call’s expectation when action remains behind and identify which subsequent-action frequency changes its sign.

Advanced · 22 min

Compare sizes against joint response distributions and avoid double-counting mutually exclusive calls.

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

Rebuild joint ranges and remaining-stack geometry when a preflop squeeze does not isolate one opponent.

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

Allocate contribution tiers and calculate equity-weighted returns separately for every 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

Use joint opponent holdings and split shares to evaluate a call after a bet and another call.

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

Solve for the future opponent contribution a drawing call needs, then test payment probabilities and reverse losses.

You’ll learn to: Derive a break-even future-return requirement and reject branches that cannot deliver it after stack, payment and losing-improvement adjustments.

Advanced · 24 min

Derive a geometric stack-building path and compare it with alternative 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 one-street polarized toy game and distinguish defence frequency from calling equity.

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

Advanced · 24 min

Find action-changing thresholds and compare expected value or regret across plausible input 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 weighted decision loss, distinguish fixed-response comparisons from adaptation, and preserve meaningful exceptions.

You’ll learn to: Evaluate an implementable simplification using hand-class weights, action EV gaps, node reach frequency and an explicit opponent-response assumption.

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

Follow remaining stacks through a small raise, flop decision and turn commitment.

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 different complete policies.

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.

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

Advanced · 24 min

Derive a payout-equity threshold from complete win, lose and fold states.

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

Advanced · 24 min

Track whole-table prize equity as short stacks collide or a covering 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

Price survival in an equal-ticket model and compare it with winner-take-all utility.

You’ll learn to: Derive an equal-prize calling threshold while respecting 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 gain, reversal 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 an input grid that exposes interactions and action reversals.

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 protocol with held-out applications, explanation scoring and delayed review.

Advanced · 24 min

Partition legal future cards and weight complete continuation policies.

You’ll learn to: Build a disjoint runout map, 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 geometry.

Advanced · 24 min

Enumerate complete legal boards, then include reversals, ties and range weights.

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

Intermediate · 22 min

Reconstruct tiny-bet prices, minimum raises and oversized commitment branches.

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

Advanced · 24 min

Separate convergence within a supplied tree from omitted 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.