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Unit 1

Preflop fundamentals

The first decision in every hand, from every seat.

Plan
  2. Under the gun is a different game
  3. How early can you open it?
  4. Which of these do you open?
  5. The cutoff and the hijack
  6. Playing the small blind
  7. Every seat, shuffled
  8. Unit review
Unit 2

Hand rankings and showdowns

Read seven cards, find the best five, know who wins.

Plan
  1. What beats what
  2. Reading the board
  3. Rank all three
  4. When the board plays
  5. Kickers decide it
  6. Split pots
  7. Unit review
Unit 3

Counting outs

The cards that turn a losing hand into a winning one.

Plan
  1. Your first count
  2. Tap the cards that win it
  3. Flush draws
  4. Straight draws
  5. Overcards and gutshots
  6. Counting on the turn
  7. Outs that are already dead
  8. Unit review
Unit 4

Pot odds

What the price in front of you demands you hold.

Plan
  1. The price of a call
  2. Half pot, two thirds, pot
  3. Outs against the odds
  4. Big bets and thin calls
  5. Overbets and the price they lay
  6. One card to come
  7. Unit review
Unit 5

Equity

How often you actually win, before a card is dealt.

Plan
  1. Pair against pair
  2. A pair against two overcards
  3. Dominated hands
  4. Suited connectors
  5. The classic races
  6. Equity and the price
  7. Small pairs against big cards
  8. How little a gap costs
  9. Unit review
Unit 6

Opening ranges

Paint the whole chart from memory, seat by seat.

Plan
  1. Reading the grid
  2. The button opens wide
  3. The cutoff tightens
  4. Early position
  5. The blinds
  6. The hijack
  7. Every seat from memory
  8. Unit review
Unit 7

Defending the blinds

You already have money in. That changes the price.

Plan
  1. Priced in to call
  2. The hands that 3-bet instead
  3. Defending against the button
  4. Paint the defence range
  5. The price the big blind is getting
  6. Defending wide, folding wider
  7. Unit review
Unit 8

Facing 3-bets

You opened, someone raised. Now what.

Plan
  1. Continue or let it go
  2. The 4-bet range
  3. Flatting in position
  4. Early position under fire
  5. Paint the response
  6. When the 3-bet is a bluff
  7. Holding on out of position
  8. Unit review
Unit 9

Tournament play

Forty big blinds changes every chart you just learned.

40bb
  1. Shallower stacks, tighter opens
  2. Opening at 40 big blinds
  3. Defending short
  4. Facing a 3-bet with 40 behind
  5. Paint the tournament range
  6. Short-stack equity
  7. Every seat at 40 big blinds
  8. Unit review
Unit 10

Board texture and draws

Wet boards, dry boards, and what each one is worth.

Plan
  1. Draw-heavy flops
  2. Dry boards and thin equity
  3. Who is ahead right now
  4. Turn cards that change everything
  5. Paired boards
  6. Monotone boards
  7. Unit review
Unit 11

The maths under pressure

Everything at once, at speed, the way it happens.

Plan
  1. Odds and outs together
  2. Preflop and equity
  3. Showdowns and counts
  4. Every seat, every street
  5. Ranges under pressure
  6. No easy questions
  7. Unit review
Unit 12

Blockers and combinations

How many ways a hand can be held, and why that decides everything.

Plan
  1. Counting combinations
  2. Pairs are rarer than they look
  3. What your cards remove
  4. Blockers preflop
  5. Reading a range by combination
  6. Unit review
Unit 13

Short stacks and push-fold

Twenty big blinds is a different game with a different chart.

40bb
  1. Opening short
  2. Calling a shove
  3. The price of a shove
  4. Facing a re-raise short
  5. Paint the shoving range
  6. Unit review
Unit 14

Mastery

No hints, no easy spots, everything you have learned.

Plan
  1. Preflop, cold
  2. The whole maths
  3. Reading it all
  4. Ranges from memory
  5. Tournament mastery
  6. Every kind at once
  7. The final table