Study plan with exercises
How to practise poker: a 20-minute study plan
Practise poker without playing for money. Follow a 20-minute study plan, review your decisions, solve three exercises and check your progress.
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Poker study guides
One topic, practical examples and questions with explanations. Start with the concept you want to understand better.
Guide with exercises
Pot odds and equity: calculate the price of a call
Learn the pot odds formula, distinguish it from equity and solve three practice questions with explained answers and explicit assumptions.
Guide with exercises
How to read the flop and the turn
Learn to read Texas Hold’em board texture through suits, connected ranks and pairs. Three exercises explain what a turn card changes.
Guide with exercises
How to read heads-up push/fold ranges without antes
Understand AKs, AKo, effective stacks and the assumptions behind a heads-up push/fold range chart without antes. Includes practice questions.
Where should you start studying poker?
Already know the Texas Hold’em rules and hand rankings? Move from simple calculations to assessing situations at the table:
- Calculate the price of a call. Solve the pot odds exercises before revealing the answers.
- Read the board. Describe what the turn card changed.
- Understand the range. Identify the effective stack and check the push/fold chart’s assumptions.
Want to combine these tasks into a short session? Try the 20-minute poker study plan.