$100 Million+ in Live Tournament Cashes. One Course.
A generational lineup. Three of the most decorated tournament players of the modern era.
Lead Coach
Tim Adams
2x Triton Main Event Champion Back-to-Back Super High Roller Bowl Champion WSOP Bracelet Winner ·
Coach · GTO Lab Co-Founder
Daniel Dvoress
Super High Roller Bowl Champion 2x WSOP Bracelet Winner 5x EPT Champion · Multi-Triton Title Winner
Guest Coach · Octopi Pro
Stephen Chidwick
#2 All-Time Live Earnings 2x WSOP Bracelet · 3x Triton Champion 11x EPT Champion · Former World #1 GPI
The Gap
You Study Harder Than Ever. You Still Bust in Painful Spots.
You know the strategies. You just might not know why.
Five years ago, a chart and a few well-timed shoves got you a cash. That world is gone. Today the $200 field has immersed themselves in solvers. They have ranges memorized. They watch the same free videos you watch. The baseline has moved, and if all you have is the baseline, you're the one being exploited.
The Habit
Studied. Tired. Chart in the head. Doubt in the gut.
You know this. You've put in the hours on HRC or GTO Wizard. You've studied the outputs, looked at the frequencies, tried to memorize the spots. And yet, 30 big blinds deep, short stack in the blind, clock ticking, you still feel like you're guessing.
Because you are.
The Spot
A board that hits his range twice as often as yours. You c-bet anyway.
You open from the hijack. Get flatted by the cutoff. Flop comes 6-5-2. You fire a c-bet because, well — you were the preflop raiser, and that's what you do. Check-raise. Now what?
You didn't think about range asymmetry. The cutoff's flat is loaded with pocket pairs that crush this exact board. Out of position against a condensed range, the solver wants you checking 76% of the time.
So you burned chips in a pot you never should have built. Again.
The Cost
The bust hand. Not a cooler. A leak.
And it gets worse near the money. You tighten up because that's what everyone says to do. But you tighten too much, or not enough, or in the wrong spots — because nobody ever explained how ICM actually changes post-flop strategy.
The gap between knowing the charts and understanding what the best players see — that's where your money is hiding.
Cashing vs. final-tabling. $2,000 vs. $20,000.
The Solution
What If You Could See the Game the Way They See It?
This course doesn't teach you what to memorize. It teaches you how to think.
Here's what separates the players who cash $100 million+ from the rest of the field.
They understand the why behind every decision.
They know why the same hand plays differently at 100bb than at 30bb. They know why ICM pressure doesn't just change preflop ranges, it reshapes entire post-flop strategies in ways most players never think about. They know why a dry Jack-high flop means one thing against a wide range and something completely different against a tight defender under bubble pressure.
When you understand the mechanics behind the decisions, you don't need to memorize 10,000 spots. You need the principles. And you'll know what to do when you get there.
We want to help you become that player who makes their opponents shrug their shoulders a lot, creating a lot of indifference in their decisions. That's the hardest player to play against. Someone very, very well balanced.
The Upswing Poker Team
Examples From the Curriculum
Mechanics, in Practice
Range AsymmetryWhy boards hit your range vs. your opponent's differently, and how to act on it without guessing.
Stack-Depth AdjustmentsWhy the same hand plays differently at 100bb, 30bb, and 15bb, with the mechanical reason behind every change.
Post-Flop ICMThe section most courses skip entirely. How ICM reshapes flop, turn, and river strategy, covering and covered.
Risk Premium DeltasDvoress's framework for finding attack spots, and for defending when a bigger stack is targeting you.
The Study MethodThe exact three-step routine Tim uses to prepare for $100K buy-ins. You can copy it starting today.
A few examples from 5 modules spanning preflop, post-flop, ICM, and study workflow.
Why three of the best current tournament players alive spent months building this for you.
Tim Adams spent the last year and a half mostly at home, preparing to have his first child. Not grinding the circuit. Studying. So when the chance to build a course came up, he took it. Building it at that stage of life wasn't easy, he rented an office space just to get it over the finish line.
He didn't build it alone. He brought in Daniel Dvoress and, for the Triton final-table review, Stephen Chidwick, the player ranked #2 all-time on the Hendon Mob money list.
"The best of the best when it comes to preflop, the mechanics behind the plays, and the way ICM influences responses."
— Tim, on Daniel
The three of them are friends who've studied and grown their game together, comparing notes, arguing spots, sharpening each other. In the Triton London Main Event review, you get to sit in on one of those Super High Roller study sessions. On camera. For hours.
That's what over $100 million in combined cashes looks like when it's teaching instead of playing.
How It Works
You'll See Spots Differently After the First Week.
You don't need to be an ICM expert to start. You just need to be willing to study.
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Study Tools & Methods
Part 1
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Deep Stack Play (100bb+)
Part 2
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Mid-Stage Preflop
Part 3
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ICM Pre & Post-Flop
Part 4
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Endgame & Final Tables
Part 5
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Triton ME Review
Part 5–6
Tim designed this course so each concept builds on the last. You don't start with final table ICM and drown. You start with the tools and the study method, the same study method Tim uses to prepare for $100,000 buy-in events.
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Preflop Range BreakdownTim breaks down the range interaction. Not just "we have the advantage", but why, showing the exact weight of offsuit hands versus pocket pairs.
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Aggregate Flop ReportsHe opens GTO Lab and looks at flop reports across thousands of boards, teaching you the push and pull factors that drive strategy.
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Live Bot DrillingHe boots up Lucid GTO Trainer and plays hands live, explaining his thinking, managing frequencies with the RNG, catching his own mistakes in real time.
"The best way to get better at poker is to drill, drill versus the bot. It'll open up your mind. You'll get good at frequencies."
Tim Adams
Course Lead
After the Course
The Table Is Afraid of You Now.
Imagine sitting down at a final table and feeling ready.
You're 9-handed. The money bubble just burst. The chip leader has been bullying the table for the last 20 minutes.
Old you would tighten up. Wait for a big hand. Hope to ladder.
The new you sees something different.
You see that the chip leader is opening wider than the solver wants because he thinks "I have the big stack, I should pressure everyone." You see that his risk premium is lower than yours, but his delta against the players behind you is where the real action is. You see a spot to 3-bet jam with a hand you used to fold. Not because you're gambling, but because you understand the exact ICM math that makes it profitable.
You act. He tank-folds. The table notices.
Two orbits later, a wet board comes down and you fire what Tim calls a "Demi-Bluff", a merge bet at 150% pot with a vulnerable hand that forces his middle-pair combos into pure indifference. He doesn't know whether you're value-betting or bluffing. That's the point. You've put him in a blender. You're picking on the chip leader.
He folds again. And now you're the one the table is afraid of.
That's what "understanding the why" feels like in practice. You stop reacting. You start dictating. The guy across from you shrugs, sighs, and gives you his chips because you've become the hardest player at the table to play against.
"Do you want to be a transactional player, where all you care about is the wins and losses? Or do you want to be a transformational player, where you're thinking bigger picture on improving every day? For me, that mindset made poker a much healthier and more enjoyable experience, just treating it like a strategy game."
Tim Adams
2x Triton Main Event Champion
Who's Teaching
Three Coaches. Five Bracelets. $100 Million+.
Tim Adams
Course Lead
Tim Adams
Tim started playing freerolls in his dorm room during the poker boom. He's now a 2x Triton Main Event Champion, 2x Super High Roller Bowl Champion, and bracelet winner.
But what makes Tim different as a teacher is his philosophy. He's a solver-based player who looks at every output through an exploitative lens.
"At the end of the day, we are playing humans. I do look through the solves with that exploitative lens. I'm always searching for exploitative opportunities."
Tim Adams
Course Lead
Tim drives the bus on this course. He shows you his exact study process, his tools, his mistakes. When he drills against the bot on camera, he catches his own errors and explains what went wrong. That kind of honesty is rare from someone at his level.
Daniel Dvoress
$50.5M+
ICM Specialist
Daniel Dvoress
$50.5M+
Here's how Tim introduces Daniel in the course: "The best of the best when it comes to understanding preflop, the mechanics behind the plays, and the way ICM influences responses."
Daniel just crossed $50 million in live cashes. Only the 13th player in history to do it. He's won a Super High Roller Bowl ($4.08M), three Triton titles, two bracelets, and four EPT titles.
Daniel takes over when the course shifts from chip EV to tournament EV. He handles the ICM sections, both preflop and post-flop and breaks down concepts like risk premium deltas that most players have never even heard of, let alone understood.
Stephen Chidwick
$76M+
Final Table Analyst
Stephen Chidwick
$76M+
The poker community has been saying it for years. PokerNews, PokerGO, his peers. They all agree. Chidwick is widely considered one of the best tournament players on the planet. #2 all-time on the Hendon Mob money list. Two-time CardPlayer Player of the Year. Former world #1 GPI ranking.
Stephen's contribution is a multi-hour review of the Triton London Main Event, the same event Tim Adams won. Every key hand analyzed, from bubble burst to the final winner, with Tim and Stephen studying it together on camera.
"How you play when you are running poorly or things aren't going your way, that's a much bigger variable between players... that gives you a really big opportunity to separate yourself from other players if you can handle that situation better than they can."
Stephen Chidwick
Final Table Analyst · $76M+ in live cashes
The Weapons
The Weapons They Don't Teach in Other Tournament Courses
Four concepts that will forever change how you play tournaments.
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The Framework
The Three Pillars of Mid-Stage Preflop
Most players treat the middle of a tournament like a guessing game, blindly applying early-game deep-stack strategy to tables where stack depths are wildly uneven.
Pillar 1: Equal Stacks (Crawling): How ranges actually function when everyone has 50bb. Why hands you loved at 100bb lose massive value at shallower depths.
Pillar 2: Mixed Stacks (Walking): What happens when you have 50bb but there are 11bb and 15bb stacks behind you? Those short stacks deny your equity in ways that aren't obvious.
Pillar 3: ICM (Running): Daniel Dvoress takes over. How to use risk premium deltas to find attack spots and defend when you're targeted.
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The Study Method
The "Come Study With Me" Format
You're exhausted by courses that dump hours of static solver charts on your screen without showing you how to use them in a real game.
Tim fixes this with an over-the-shoulder teaching method. A repeatable three-step process:
Step 1: Preflop range interaction breakdown, not just "we have the advantage" but why.
Step 2: GTO Lab aggregate flop reports across thousands of boards, the push and pull factors driving strategy.
Step 3: Lucid GTO Trainer live drilling, thinking out loud, managing frequencies, catching his own mistakes in real time.
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The Concept
The Demi-Bluff
A merge bet at 150% pot with a vulnerable hand, one that simultaneously generates fold equity, builds a pot when called with the best hand, and forces your opponent into pure indifference.
It's the exact spot that separates players who "sort of understand ICM" from players who can dictate outcomes at a final table. When your opponent doesn't know if you're value-betting or bluffing, they're in a blender. That's the point.
When better hands fold. When equal hands give up equity. When worse hands pay you off. All three outcomes are profitable.
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The Concept
The Tomahawk — 300% Pot Jams
On certain dynamic boards with a specific stack-to-pot ratio, the solver wants you jamming the entire pot at 300% a massive, polar move that most players would never consider.
The Tomahawk isn't gambling. It's precisely calibrated aggression that puts your opponents in impossible spots. At deep stacks with the right board texture, it's not just an option, it's the highest-EV play available.
Tim shows you the exact conditions, the right hands, and how to balance this play so it can't be exploited.
Inside the Course
5 Modules. Every Stage of Tournaments.
Module 1 — Introduction
How to get the most out of the course
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Course Introduction
Tim sets up how the course is structured, who it's for, and how to approach the material so you actually transform your game instead of just collecting information.
Module 2 — Tournament Prep
Tim's exact study process, tools, and drilling routine
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How I Study + Term Glossary
Tim's personal study workflow for $100K+ buy-in events, plus a glossary of the key terms used throughout the course so nothing gets lost in translation.
03
PioSolver
How to navigate PioSolver, read reports, and pull the information that actually matters for tournament decisions.
04
GTO Lab — Introduction & Features
Dan walks through GTO Lab and the features the coaches lean on most for building and checking tournament strategies.
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Lucid Poker
How to use Lucid Poker as part of your study and drilling stack.
06
Drilling: 50bb HJ vs. CO SRP (Pre + Post)
A full live drill through a single-raised pot at 50bb, preflop and postflop, in Lucid, so you see the study process applied end to end.
07
Drilling: 25bb CO vs. BB SRP (Pre + Post)
A second live drill at a shallower 25bb depth from different positions, reinforcing the routine you'll use on your own.
Module 3 — Early Stages
Deep-stack preflop and postflop, single-raised and 3-bet pots
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Deep-Stack Preflop Intro
How preflop ranges and incentives change when stacks are deep early in a tournament, and why the adjustments matter.
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Deep-Stack Postflop: HJ vs. BB SRP
Postflop play in a single-raised pot, hijack against the big blind, at deep stacks. Range interactions, sizing, and street-by-street plans.
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Deep-Stack Postflop: HJ vs. CO SRP
A second single-raised-pot breakdown with different range dynamics, showing how position and ranges reshape the right approach.
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Deep-Stack Postflop: 3-Bet Pots
How 3-bet-pot strategy shifts at deep stacks, where the higher stack-to-pot ratio rewards very different lines than single-raised pots.
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Deep-Stack 3-Bet Pots: CO vs. SB
A focused 3-bet-pot breakdown from the cutoff against the small blind, working through the specific spots this matchup creates.
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Deep-Stack 3-Bet Pots: CO vs. BB
The cutoff-versus-big-blind 3-bet pot, rounding out your deep-stack postflop toolkit across the most common configurations.
Module 4 — Mid Stages
cEV concepts at every depth, ICM, and bubble strategy
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Mid-Stage Intro
How the middle stages of a tournament differ from the early game, and what to prioritize as stacks compress and pay jumps appear on the horizon.
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Preflop cEV Concepts — Deeper Stacks
A two-part deep dive into chip-EV preflop strategy at the deeper end of mid-stage stack depths.
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Preflop cEV Concepts — Middling Stacks
How chip-EV preflop ranges and incentives shift as you move into the middling stack depths that define so much of tournament play.
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Preflop cEV Concepts — Shallow Stacks
Chip-EV preflop strategy when stacks get shallow, where small edges and precise ranges matter most.
18
Intro to ICM
The foundations of the Independent Chip Model: why chips aren't money, how risk premium works, and how it starts to reshape your decisions.
19
Intro to Postflop ICM
Dan extends ICM into postflop play, the part of the game most training ignores, and shows how it changes the way you bet, call, and fold after the flop.
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Postflop: Middling-Depth Mechanics
An extended, multi-part breakdown of postflop mechanics at middling depths, the meat of mid-stage play, worked through in detail.
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Approaching the Bubble, Bubble & Post-Bubble
How strategy bends as the money bubble nears, peaks during it, and resets just after, the highest-leverage stretch of most tournaments.
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Preflop: Bubble Strategy by Stack Size
Dedicated preflop game plans for shallow, medium, and big stacks on the bubble, so you know exactly how to apply or absorb pressure from any seat.
Module 5 — End Game
Final-table strategy and a multi-hour Triton London review
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End Game Intro & Approaching the Final Table
How to navigate the run-up to a final table and the shift in mindset and strategy once you're there.
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Preflop: Final-Table Strategy by Stack Size
Shallow, medium, and big-stack preflop game plans built specifically for final-table ICM, where every pay jump is enormous.
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End Game Postflop
Tim and Dan on postflop decision-making at the final table, where ICM pressure and short fields change everything about how hands play out.
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2023 Triton London Review — In the Money
Tim and Stephen Chidwick break down the in-the-money stretch of Chidwick's run, hand by hand, on camera.
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2023 Triton London Review — Final Table
The final-table hands analyzed in depth, a front-row seat to a core part of how these players actually study and win.
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Tim is a tier-1 player. His crisp analytical approach and elite execution has produced consistent results for well over a decade in the toughest games around. There is a very short list of people who I would most want to teach me NLHE, and Tim is on it.
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How much does the course cost and how long do I have to finish it? +
Modern Tournament Mastery costs $999 for lifetime access. There are no recurring fees, no subscriptions, no future charges. You pay once and own it forever. Study at your own pace, there's no deadline.
Is the course appropriate for newer players? +
Tim designed this course primarily for players in $200+ online MTTs and $1,000+ live events. That said, he built it to be valuable for almost anyone with a basic understanding of preflop strategy and post-flop concepts. Tim's clear, structured teaching style makes even complex ICM concepts accessible to players who haven't studied them deeply before.
Do I need any solver tools to follow along? +
No. Tim uses PioSOLVER, GTO Lab, and Lucid GTO Trainer on camera and explains every output so you can follow along whether you own the tools or not. If you do have them, you'll learn exactly how to use them. If you don't, you'll still understand the mechanics behind every decision.
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No. Tim uses solver-based study as a foundation, but he looks at every output through an exploitative lens. The course emphasizes understanding why the solver does what it does, and how to deviate from it. There are extensive drilling sessions, hand series, and "come study with me" segments, not just static screenshots.
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Yes. They're designed to complement each other. Road to Victory (with Darren Elias and Nick Petrangelo) emphasizes exploitative play vs. specific player types. MTM goes much deeper on mechanics, deep-stack post-flop play, post-flop ICM from both the covering and covered stack perspective, and the underlying why behind every range adjustment. Different coaches, different approach, different depth.
Is this useful for online MTTs, live tournaments, or both? +
Both. The strategic concepts apply universally. Tim's approach focuses on understanding mechanics, not memorizing format-specific spots, so you can apply the principles in any tournament setting, whether it's a $200 online MTT or a $10K live event.
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