Beginner and Low Stakes Poker Training Courses
No matter where you are in your poker journey, Upswing Poker has a course from you. Below you'll find a curated list of courses and training resources that both newer and low stakes players will find helpful for boosting their win rates at existing stakes, or making the leap up to higher levels.
For No Limit Hold'em
By Doug Polk, Gary Blackwood & More
$99 / first month
- Skyrocket Your Poker Earnings
- Delivers World-Class Results for No Limit Hold'em Players
- New Content Added Weekly
Best for Beginners
By Uri Peleg
$499
- Transform your game with Uri's simplified approach
- Years of poker coaching distilled into simple, actionable strategies
- Outmaneuver different types of opponents and game dynamics
For Pot Limit Omaha
By Dylan Weisman
$99
- Quickly Become a Winner at Pot Limit Omaha
- Easy to Understand Training for Online and Live
- Discover Common Player Tendencies (and How to Exploit Them)
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Beginner Strategy Articles
[QUIZ] Can You Ace These 10 Fundamental Preflop Decisions?
Ready to put your preflop fundamentals to the test? This quiz was made with relatively new poker players in mind, but anyone could benefit from a refresher on basic preflop decisions. For each of these questions, imagine that you just sat at a new cash game table with a 100 big blind stack and no…
Why You Must Embrace Variance to Succeed in Poker
Nothing invokes larger emotional response to poker players than the word variance. What is Variance? Defined simply as the expected fluctuation of the average result, variance is meant to quantify the uncertainty around a typical outcome generated by the luck of the draw. Stochastic events (such as expected amount of money won, number of times…
10 Baddest (& Biggest) Beats from Polk vs Negreanu at $200/$400
Luck was a big topic of conversation in the Doug Polk vs. Daniel Negreanu Grudge Match. Through different points of the challenge, both players felt that they were been victim to worse luck. Today’s article will look at 10 bad beats that went for $108,389.96+. Before you get worked up at the order or contents…
How to Play Ace-Five Suited in Cash Games (Preflop Advice & 6 Postflop Tips)
Ace-Five suited (A5s) is a powerful hand that has generated a lot of conversation in the past few years. If you’ve ever looked at preflop ranges, you’ve likely noticed that A5s gets included in a lot of different ranges, even when some higher suited aces are not. That’s really no surprise given it’s powerful properties:…
The 10 Biggest Bluffs from Polk vs Negreanu at $200/$400
The Doug Polk vs Daniel Negreanu Grudge Match has exceeded expectations across the board. With the whole poker world watching, the two poker titans have battled for 22,272 hands of the 25,000 hand challenge. Doug currently leads by around $735,000, but there’s no telling how the final sessions will go down. For today’s article, we’re…
The 100 Most Valuable Poker Strategy Articles for 2021
Hopefully you’ve taken advantage of all the great strategy content that’s available here at Upswing. But in case you’ve missed something, or want to double back and reinforce what you’ve learned, we’ve compiled our top strategy articles. Each of them falls under one of the following categories (click to jump to that section): General poker…