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Upswing Poker Courses — FAQs
To help you make the right decision and get as much value as possible, this section contains the answers to the most frequently asked questions about Upswing courses. These questions are:
- What is it?
- What game type does this course cover?
- Who teaches the course?
- Who will benefit most from taking this course?
- What exactly is inside the course?
What is The $7 Postflop Game Plan?
Mini training course that breaks down how the pros approach postflop strategy in plain English–no complex poker speak.
What game type does this course cover?
No Limit Hold’em cash games and tournaments, both live and online.
Who teaches the course?
Doug Polk and Ryan Fee.
Who will benefit most from taking this course?
Beginners and players looking for a refresher on modern postflop strategy. This includes:
- Live players who play $2/$5 or lower
- Online players who play 25NL or lower
- Live tournament players who play $500 buy-ins and lower
- Online tournament players who play $26 buy-ins and lower
What exactly is inside the course?
40 minutes of video content, and most videos are accompanied by text content outlining the strategy. The course concludes with an exclusive Play & Explain video featuring Doug Polk in which he demonstrates the strategy you just learned in the course.
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What is the Upswing Lab?
Extensive training course that is updated every month with new videos and resources.
What game type does this course cover?
No Limit Hold’em cash game and tournaments, both live and online.
Who teaches the course?
Doug Polk and Ryan Fee were the sole coaches when the Lab first launched, and they’ve since added three specialists to cover other game types:
- Parker “tonkaaaap” Talbot — Tournament specialist and Twitch star
- Fried “mynameiskarl” Meulders — Online cash game specialist
- “Piano Mike” Finstein — Live poker crusher
Who will benefit most from taking this course?
- Live players who play $10/$20 or lower
- Online players who play 600NL or lower
- Live tournament players who play $400–$10,000 buy-ins
- Online tournament players who play $215 buy-ins and lower
What exactly is inside the course?
- 55 learning modules (110 hours of content) each covering a different poker topic.
- 129 Play & Explain videos (70+ hours of content) with the coaches demonstrating the Lab strategy.
- Downloadable resources including HUDs, filters, reports, and more.
- In-depth preflop ranges for open-raising, vs open-raise, vs 3-bet, and cold 4-bet, with different ranges for tournaments, live cash, and online cash.
- BONUS: All members gain access to our exclusive community: Upswing Poker Engage.
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What is the PLO Lab?
Comprehensive training course based on cutting-edge Pot Limit Omaha strategies and research.
What game type does this course cover?
Pot Limit Omaha cash games and tournaments, both live and online.
Who teaches the course?
Fernando “JNandez” Habegger
Who will benefit most from taking this course?
Pot Limit Omaha players looking to take their game to the next level.
The course is also perfect for No Limit Hold’em players looking to transition to Pot Limit Omaha. In fact, the first section (PLO Bootcamp) was made for such players!
What exactly is inside the course?
- 58 PLO theory videos covering general concepts and specific strategies (22 hours of content).
- 46 Play & Explain videos so you can watch a PLO expert demonstrate the strategies you learn.
- 21 downloadable resources including preflop ranges, HUDs, quizzes, and more.
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What is Tournament Master Class?
Comprehensive training course for poker tournaments with advanced strategies explained in a way that’s easy to understand.
What game type does this course cover?
No Limit Hold’em tournaments, both live and online.
Who teaches the course?
Mainly Pratyush Buddiga, who is joined by Doug Polk and Ryan Fee for a handful of videos.
Who will benefit most from taking this course?
- Live tournament players who play $400 buy-ins and higher.
- Online tournament players who play $11 buy-ins and higher.
- Cash game players who want to hop in and dominate tournaments.
What exactly is inside the course?
Long answer: Check out our Tournament Master Class Preview & Walkthrough here.
Short answer:
- 24 hours of video from Pratyush discussing tournament strategy and dynamics.
- 7 hours of analysis covering every hand from Doug Polk’s $455k WCOOP score (Doug joins Pratyush for this section).
- Pratyush’s personal preflop ranges (with and without antes in play).
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What is Elite Cash Game Mastery?
Advanced cash game training course based on thousands of hours of game play, solver research, and opponent analysis.
What game type does this course cover?
No Limit Hold’em cash games, both live and online.
Who teaches the course?
Andres “Educa-p0ker” Artinano
Educa-p0ker is an online poker legend with a $2,000,000+ graph and an insanely high win-rate versus the world’s best players.
Andres’ graph of dollars won since 2015.
Who will benefit most from taking this course?
- Live cash game players who play $2/$5 and higher.
- Online cash game players who play 25NL and higher.
What exactly is inside the course?
Long answer: Check out our Elite Cash Game Mastery Preview & Walkthrough here.
Short answer:
- 25 hours of cash game strategy videos from Educa-p0ker (with more coming soon).
- Educa-p0ker’s personal preflop ranges.
- Downloadable resources including a HUD (for PT4 and HM2), reports, filters, and a Notecaddy file for HM2.
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What is Advanced Heads-Up Mastery?
Extensive training course covering every aspect of heads-up No Limit Hold’em.
What game type does this course cover?
No Limit Hold’em heads-up cash games and sit and gos.
Who teaches the course?
Doug Polk, who has reached the top of the heads-up food chain.
Who will benefit most from taking this course?
Note that this course is not just for heads-up players because understanding wide-range situations applies to all forms of poker.
- Heads-up cash and HUSNG players who play $25 buy-in games or higher.
- Online and live cash game players who want to improve at shorthanded play.
- Tournament players who want to be prepared for heads-up and shorthanded play.
What exactly is inside the course?
I could tell you, but wouldn’t you rather have Doug show you? Watch the video below. (He shows the course around 5:16.)
Advanced Heads-Up Mastery - Get the Course
Note that this is a slightly outdated walkthrough. We have since added downloadable preflop ranges, downloadable heads-up math, and several videos.
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What is Mixed Games Mastery?
Comprehensive mixed games training course covering 5 of the most common and important game types.
What game type does this course cover?
- Razz
- Stud
- Stud 8 or Better
- Omaha 8 or Better (fixed limit)
- 2-7 Triple Draw (fixed limit)
Who teaches the course?
Jake “jllama” Abdalla.
Jake is a feared mixed game specialist with over $1.4 million in online winnings on PokerStars alone.
Who will benefit most from taking this course?
- Live Omaha 8 or Better players who play $4/$8 and higher
- Live mixed game players who play $4/$8 and higher
- Online mixed game players who play $1/$2 and higher
We also highly recommend this course for any poker player looking to transition to mixed games.
What exactly is inside the course?
Again, I think it’s better I let the instructor of the course show you around. Watch below.
Mixed Games - Evergreen Sales Video
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