Sneak Peek Inside Crushing PLO Tournaments with Dylan Weisman

PLO tournaments are still one of the softest formats in poker.

The fields are weak, the prize pools are huge, and until now, nobody has really built a serious course around how to actually beat them.

That’s what makes Crushing PLO Tournaments different.

Taught by Dylan Weisman, the course is built on custom solver work and population study designed specifically for tournament play. Not recycled cash game sims, not surface-level heuristics, actual work done in MonkerSolver across stack depths, ICM setups, and multiway spots that most training content doesn’t even touch.

Dylan spent years working with analyst Matt Wright arduously running sims where others normally take shortcuts. The result is a complete system for playing PLO tournaments, from the first hand all the way through heads-up.

And the resume backs it up.

He’s played at the highest level against the best players in the world.

But more importantly, he actually wants to teach this stuff.

“Coaching is my actual favorite thing in the world. I love it more than playing.”

— Dylan Weisman

Beyond his in-game achievements, Dylan is lauded as one of the best PLO coaches in the world. You can meet Dylan and read his full bio here, or browse all of his Upswing Poker courses.

Here’s what’s inside.

What’s Inside Crushing PLO Tournaments?

The course is structured into eight modules:

Plus: Beta access to Dylan’s PLO Trainer App, Omalytics and over 10 hours of bonus content including Dylan Coaching Brad Owen.

Rather than walk through every lesson, let’s cover some of the highlights. The full curriculum is listed on the Crushing PLO Tournaments course page.

Preflop (Where Everything Starts)

This is the backbone of the course, and it’s where things immediately start to look different from standard PLO thinking.

The biggest shift is the limp-and-pot strategy.

Instead of defaulting to a raise-or-fold approach, Dylan shows how mixing in limps lets you play more hands, keep pots manageable, and avoid putting yourself in tough, high-variance spots unnecessarily. In a tournament environment with a big blind ante and no rake, those passive options aren’t punished the same way they are in cash games.

The result is a system that plays more hands, with lower variance, and higher EV.

And some of the conclusions are going to feel backwards if you’re coming from NLHE or standard PLO theory.

For example:

• Nut-suit rundowns often want to limp and go multiway
• Non-nut versions prefer to raise and isolate

Most players instinctively do the opposite.

That kind of inversion shows up all over this section, and it feeds directly into everything that comes after.

ICM (The Section Nobody Has Built)

This is where the course really separates itself.

ICM in PLO tournaments is complicated, under-studied, and usually glossed over. Dylan went the other direction and built out an entire framework for it.

One idea that comes up immediately:

The chip leader adjustments are just as important.

Instead of opening small and trying to “play more hands,” the solver actually prefers:

• Opening wider
• Using larger sizings

Why? Because players are extremely sensitive to ICM pressure and overfold to bigger opens.

It’s one of those spots where population instincts are just wrong.

Flop (Built for the Spots That Actually Happen)

Most PLO training focuses on heads-up pots.

That’s not what tournaments look like.

This course spends a ton of time on multiway flops, because that’s where a huge percentage of your decisions actually come from.

“People do not have multiway sims. We have multiway sims.”

— Dylan Weisman

You’re not just memorizing strategies here. You’re learning how to read boards through:

• Range vs range dynamics
• Nut advantage
• Polarity

And then adjusting your sizing based on that.

Instead of forcing one bet size across all textures, the course gives you practical rules you can actually use in-game.

Turn & River

This section is intentionally more streamlined.

Multiway turn and river sims are extremely complex, so instead of trying to map every possible branch, Dylan focuses on building decision frameworks you can rely on.

It ties back to the same core idea from earlier: understand ranges, understand structure, and let that guide your actions.

Centralized Spotlights

This is where some of the highest-value concepts live.

A few standouts:

These are the types of concepts that are hard to find anywhere else, and they show up constantly once you start looking for them.

Final Table Reviews

Three full reviews from Dylan’s own high-stakes runs:

This is about as high-level as PLO tournament content gets.

Play & Explain

Three sessions of real tournament play with Dylan talking through every decision in real time.

No scripts, no hindsight, just how he actually thinks in the moment.

Free Bonuses

The course also includes:

Sneak Peek Videos

What Does It Look Like Once I Enter the Course

Once you’re inside, the course is laid out cleanly so you can jump straight into the material without digging around.

Your Course Home

After logging in at members.upswingpoker.com, navigate to Crushing PLO Tournaments under “Your Courses, Tools & Resources.” You’ll land on the course home, where all eight modules are listed with your progress tracked automatically as you complete each lesson.

Inside a Module

Each module expands into individual lessons. Lessons are focused on digestibility, no long marathons, with most running 10–20 minutes. You can work through them in order or revisit specific topics whenever you want to review a concept.

Bonuses & PLO Trainer Beta Access

Your free bonuses: the Brad Owen coaching session, private group Discord access, and the Twitch VOD, are accessible from the same members area. Discord invite details and PLO Trainer beta access will be delivered by email once your account is set up.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Bonus Coaching: Dylan Coaches Brad Owen

As a bonus inside the course, you’ll also get a full coaching session where Dylan walks Brad Owen through a ClubWPT Gold PLO tournament in real time. It’s a cool behind-the-scenes look at Dylan’s coaching style and how he helps players sharpen their decisions on the fly.