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MTT course

Tournament Mastery

Tournaments reward a different set of skills from cash games: shrinking stacks, rising blinds, antes and prize structures that make survival valuable. This course takes you from the first level of a tournament to heads-up for the title.

Course progress0/13 lessons

About 15 hours · 13 lessons

  1. How tournaments work, playing deep early, stealing and defending the blinds.

    4 lessons, about 4 hours

  2. Medium stacks, push-fold charts, reshoves and the money bubble.

    5 lessons, about 6 hours

  3. Final tables, bounty and PKO events, satellites and heads-up for the title.

    4 lessons, about 5 hours

MTT · Stage 1

Tournament Foundations

  1. 1

    How Poker Tournaments Work: Structures, Blinds and Payouts

    Starting stacks, blind levels, antes, late registration, re-entries and payout structures — and how each one changes the way you should play a tournament.
  2. 2

    Early-Stage Tournament Strategy: Playing Deep

    How to play the first levels of a tournament: why deep stacks favour implied odds, which hands gain and lose value, and how to exploit loose early players.
  3. 3

    Stealing the Blinds and Antes in Tournaments

    Why antes make stealing so valuable in tournaments, how wide to open from late position, the right open sizes and how to handle stacks and players behind you.
  4. 4

    Defending the Big Blind in Tournaments

    Why the big blind ante makes defending so cheap in tournaments, which hands to call and 3-bet, how stack sizes change your defence and how to play after the flop.
Take the MTT · Stage 1 quiz

MTT · Stage 2

Middle Stages & the Bubble

  1. 1

    Middle-Stage Tournament Strategy: 20–40 Big Blinds

    How to play the middle of a tournament with 20–40bb: smaller opens, fewer speculative calls, 3-bet shoves, protecting your stack and building one before the bubble.
  2. 2

    Push-Fold Charts Explained: Nash Shoving Ranges

    What push-fold charts are, how Nash equilibrium ranges are calculated, real small blind vs big blind shove and call ranges at 10 and 15bb, and when to deviate.
  3. 3

    Reshoving: 3-Bet All-In Ranges in Tournaments

    How to 3-bet shove over opens with 12–30bb: why reshoving works, a worked EV example, which hands to reshove, stack sizes that make it work and how to call reshoves.
  4. 4

    Bubble Play: Attacking and Surviving the Money Bubble

    How the money bubble changes tournament strategy: why medium stacks tighten up, how big stacks attack, how short stacks survive, and a worked ICM example.
  5. 5

    Hand Review: Folding Ace-King on the Bubble

    A sit & go bubble hand reviewed with real ICM numbers: why a medium stack should fold ace-king to the chip leader's shove, and which hands can call.
Take the MTT · Stage 2 quiz

MTT · Stage 3

Final Tables & Special Formats

  1. 1

    Final Table Strategy: Pay Jumps and Stack Dynamics

    How to play a tournament final table: pay jumps, ICM with a six-handed worked example, strategy for big, medium and short stacks, and how to think about deals.
  2. 2

    Bounty and PKO Tournaments: How Bounties Change Ranges

    How bounty and progressive knockout (PKO) tournaments work, how to include a bounty in your pot odds, why covering stacks matters and how ranges widen as bounties grow.
  3. 3

    Satellite Strategy: When Survival Is Everything

    How satellite tournaments work, why every seat is worth the same, the extreme ICM near the bubble with a worked example, and when folding aces can be correct.
  4. 4

    Heads-Up Play: Winning the Title

    How to play heads-up for a tournament win: why ranges become so wide, button and big blind strategy, push-fold heads-up, and adjusting to your last opponent.
Take the MTT · Stage 3 quiz
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