About the Course

The course covers everything from understanding pot odds and EV to the art of the check-raise and defending the big blind.

Intended to be taken over a series of 30 days, each progressive lesson is accompanied by a video in which authors Collin Moshman and Katie Dozier build on each daily topic with extra explanations, hand reviews, tips, and quizzes. The course is an amazing way to learn how to play like the best poker players around. Players requiring extra help can also contact Collin and Katie through the CardsChat forum.

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Who Will Benefit From The Course?

Beginner and intermediate poker players who already know how to play and understand the basics of the game should primarily benefit from the course. However, it also serves as a great refresher for more experienced players.

• Value betting
• Pot control and hand planning
• The art of bluffing and hand reading
• How to win most micro-stakes tournament formats including SNG & MTT
• And much, much more…

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Meet The Course Creators

Collin Moshman

Collin has penned numerous books, including the classic Sit’N’Go Strategy. Holding an honors degree in theoretical math from the California Institute of Technology, the SNG specialist has almost $3 million in online cashes.

Katie Dozier

SNG specialist and poker author Katie has played over 100,000 online poker tournaments. Achieving one of the highest ROI’s ever at nine-player super-turbos, she has over $1 million in online cashes.

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Day 1 – The Power of Position

In poker, people say “Position is Power,” and they’re completely right. Day 1 is all about understanding the different positions in poker, including what each one is called and the order in which they act.

Day 2 – The Benefits of Aggression

Think about the players that you enjoy having as opponents. Who would you rather play against: a passive opponent who’s mainly checking and calling? Or a loose or tight aggressive opponent who regularly plays back at you? Day 2 is about understanding which actions in poker are passive, neutral, and aggressive.

Day 3 – Thinking in Ranges

Day 3 is about learning to put your opponents on a range of hands. Doing this is important because their actions will almost always be consistent with multiple holdings. So instead of getting caught up in just one of the poker hands your opponent might have, the best way to think is in terms of your opponent’s potential range of different holdings.

Day 4 – The Two Types of Equity

You and your opponents all have equity in each pot that you play, and that equity changes with each new betting round. Here, you will learn the concept of your equity in a pot as a poker hand progresses.

Day 5 – Understanding Pot Odds and Expected Value

Day 5’s lesson covers the last of the big fundamental concepts before moving on to strategy. We will be going through what pot odds are and how to calculate them. Tip: the CardsChat Poker Odds Calculator is free to use!

Day 6 – The Guide to Pre-Flop

We believe that pre-flop is the most important of the four betting rounds. Understanding pre-flop calling hand ranges helps you decide what ranges to play from each position and the many factors affecting the pre-flop decision-making process.

Day 7 – Value Betting

This lesson explains the concept of value betting in poker, and how understanding this important element of betting will help you make the most of your strongest poker hands.

Day 8 – Should You C-Bet?

Day 8 covers what a ‘continuation bet’ is and why they’re important. You’ll learn about why c-betting should be your default play in certain situations and how you can continue to seize the betting lead by betting the flop, whether you’ve hit or missed.

Day 9 – Dueling Concepts: Implied Odds and Reverse Implied Odds

This lesson on poker odds covers the concepts of implied odds and reverse implied odds, explaining the types of situations where they are particularly useful. You will learn the concept of how you can win more money from opponents with implied odds and how you can profitably make tight folds in situations with bad reverse implied odds.

Day 10 – The Key to Playing Draws

Day 10 covers how to use pot odds and implied odds in helping you to decide if you’re correct to call with a draw. You’ll also learn what semi-bluffing is and how making this play when your opponent has shown weakness is extremely profitable.

Day 11 – The Art of Bluffing

Bluffing is definitely an important skill to master. This lesson will teach you the five best bluffing spots and what makes them good for getting your opponent(s) to fold.

Day 12 – Ask Yourself This Question Every Time You Bet the River

Day 12’s lesson is about understanding the fundamental question we need to ask when betting or raising the river. We’ll cover what this question is, how to answer it, and why it’s most applicable to the river.

Day 13 – Power Poker: When to Shove Pre-Flop

A significant part of winning poker play comes from making good decisions pre-flop, whether that’s folding, calling, or raising. In this lesson, you’ll learn the five guidelines for when to shove pre-flop instead of making a different play.

Day 14 – What is ICM?

Day 14’s lesson will cover what ICM (the Independent Chip Model) is and how using it helps you to make money-winning decisions, especially at the final tables of multi-table poker tournaments.

Day 15 – Game Selection and Midterm Exams

You’ve made it halfway through! Day 15’s lesson gives you a chance to test your knowledge as Collin looks back at the principles explained in the course so far, from how to play poker for beginners to the concept of game selection – one of the biggest factors in your poker strategy that will affect how much you win.

Day 16 – Pot Control and Hand Planning

To be a great poker player, you need to think ahead in the hand. It doesn’t have to be an elaborate plan, but – bearing in mind things like pot size and effective stacks – you should have a basic idea of how you’ll respond to your opponent’s actions as the hand plays out.

Day 17 – Three Keys to Playing the Late Streets

If all hands could be categorized as made hands or draws, then the day on draws could be half the book! Similarly, in flop games like Texas Hold’em and Omaha, the turn and river together account for half the betting rounds you play, so it’s vital to know the guidelines for playing these ‘late streets’.

Day 18 – Logic and Hand Reading

In this chapter, we will focus on using your opponent’s betting patterns to come up with a likely range of poker hands they might be holding.

Day 19 – Playing the Small Blind

The small blind and big blind are unique positions because you’re forced to put money into the pot, giving you a discount on playing the hand. Day 19 addresses optimal play from the small blind.

Day 20 – Variance and Bankroll Management

Poker can be unpredictable. Just like weaker players can have winning streaks, good players can also win much more than their EV, or lose money, over a given period of time.

There are two primary factors influencing how large a poker bankroll you need to weather these swings: your edge and the format you’re playing.

Day 21 – Tracking Software

Poker tracking software is just one of the poker tools in your arsenal that can give you a significant edge against your opponents. Chapter 21 shows you some of the most valuable statistics and how to interpret them.

Day 22 – Playing Unpredictably

Whether you need to play unpredictably, like most elements of your poker strategy, depends on your opponents.

While weak opponents will not be observing or exploiting predictable tendencies in your game, the greater the opponent you face, the greater the need for unpredictable play.

Day 23 – Short-Handed and Heads-Up Play

Many people assume there are big differences between heads-up, short-handed, and full ring play. While there are some key considerations to bear in mind, the differences are not as great as you might imagine.

So, this lesson focuses on a guiding principle: for any given position, hands play similarly, no matter how many players are at the table.

Day 24 – The Underrated Mental Game

There are many factors that significantly impact your results. One of the most important and often underestimated factors is the mental game. Tilt can turn a winning player into a losing player, so learning to play your ‘A-game’ as often as possible is an important lesson.

Day 25 – More ICM, It’s That Important!

In the last ICM lesson on Day 14, we looked at general principles we can learn from the Independent Chip Model. In this lesson, we’re going to look at how to use ICM to generate specific ranges in crucial stages of a multi-table tournament.

Day 26 – Defending the Big Blind

While there are many factors that determine how wide you should defend your blind, there are two strategy considerations that are most important: how much your opponent is raising, and whether you will have position post-flop.

Day 27 – The Art of the Check-Raise

In the early days of poker, it was considered ungentlemanly to deceive your opponents by raising after checking. Now, however, the check-raise is a vital part of playing out of position and an essential move in any successful strategy. Day 27’s lesson looks at the important guidelines for check-raising effectively.

Day 28 – Exploiting Tourney Risk Aversion

One of the biggest factors in determining the strategy you should use late in a tournament is your relative stack size. This lesson looks at how you should approach the final table, whether you’re playing a short, medium, or big-stack, and how your opponents’ aversion to risk can be exploited.

Day 29 – Floating

Floating – calling the flop in position in order to bluff the turn – was once considered a rare play, but today can be a profitable addition to your poker strategy. Day 29 looks at the conditions most favorable to successfully floating the flop.

Day 30 – Winning at Poker: The Final Exam!

Now that you’ve completed the previous lessons, it’s time to put you to the test! Looking at hands from a wide range of games and formats, can you use the poker strategy knowledge you’ve gained over the previous 29 lessons to identify the correct actions in each scenario?

This final video helps to underline and highlight the 10 biggest keys to winning at poker that you’ve already studied.