
Brief introduction to the Course.
Update 21.06.2019 - added Glossary of Poker Terms
Explore the full spectrum of poker hand rankings from high card to royal flush, and learn how kickers break ties to determine the winner.
Learn the three poker table positions—early, middle, and late—and how position affects action, bet sizing insight, and optimal hand ranges from early to late.
Identify a base starting range around 10% of hands, prioritize pocket aces through tens, strong suited cards, and selective connectors, raise preflop when unopened and call with action.
Master bet sizing in hold'em by learning why to bet, pre-flop opens and three-bets, and post-flop bets of 50–70% of the pot, with two standard sizes.
Learn to recognize four common poker player types: loose aggressive, tight aggressive, loose passive, and tight passive—and play against them to maximize profits.
Learn to bluff effectively in hold'em by balancing frequency and using pure and semi bluffs against the right opponents, while mastering sizing and continuation bets.
Master continuation bets as a core bluff in hold'em, using about half-pot sizing, adapting to heads-up, multiway, draws, and board texture, with delayed bets on the turn when appropriate.
Learn three-betting preflop in no-limit hold’em, using value and light ranges, balancing with position, table dynamics, and opponent styles, including suited connectors and flexible percentages.
Assess the turn by evaluating hand strength, draws, board texture, and number of opponents. Weigh pot size and stacks, opponent tendencies to decide bets or folds, and plan river outcomes.
Explore how your table image, whether loose, tight, or maniac, shapes opponents' decisions and how you can use first impressions to steal blinds and prompt wider calls.
Master implied odds by evaluating potential payoffs on later streets, distinguishing favorable calls from bad ones, and weighing reverse implied odds in deep-stacked hold'em.
Master the check raise for out of position play to extract value or bluff, using semi-bluffs on draws and selective spots to stay unpredictable in hold'em.
Understand how live poker differs from online play in speed, observation, and pot math. Apply card protection, chip placement, and awareness of tells to win at live tables.
Learn how to install and configure poker tracker 4, import hand histories, and analyze hands with real-time stats, graphs, and custom reports to improve online hold'em play.
Review a deep-stack eight-max online poker hand in a 3-bet pot, analyzing ace five suited on the big blind against an aggressive button and river bluff possibilities.
review a deep-stacked eight-max hand, illustrating how to play bottom vs big blind in hold'em, including flop checks, turn checks, and calling with king ten.
Hi! My name is Mateusz and I've played over 3 million hands of No-Limit Texas Hold'em which is the Cadillac of poker.
I started playing poker by depositing $13 into an online poker room, which I lost within like 5 minutes of playing, but then I read a little bit about the basics, deposited another $13, and never had to invest any more money into poker again.
I created this course because I remember vividly when I was starting playing poker, there were no good educational materials for beginner players. Sure, there were some pretty good books, but none of them started at a 0 experience level. All of them were for people who already knew the game and had some experience.
I had to learn everything by trial and error and I wanted to create a poker course that would reduce this costly and painful learning phase for a completely new player to as smooth and easy as possible. I mean, why lose time and money learning poker in an ineffective way if you can go through a course and learn it optimally?
That is how From Zero to Poker Hero started and this Poker Course was created SPECIFICALLY for BEGINNER players.
It is tailor-made for someone who has little or no experience with poker and wants to learn the fundamentals, the most basic principles that allow you to win money when playing with casual (no strategy, just fun) players.
My idea was to condense my knowledge of these basic principles into 21 quick lessons which altogether take just under 140 minutes to watch so that it's easy to complete this course and learn to be a WINNING player.
The lessons are quick and well prepared so they will teach you the theory really well, but I believe that if you want to really master these fundamentals, you ABSOLUTELY positively have got to PRACTICE them.
As with all skills in life, you can't become a PRO unless you spend some hours practicing the craft. The way I designed this course is that after each and every lesson, you should spend at least 30 minutes actually PLAYING POKER, so that not only can you crystallize the knowledge you're getting from the lessons, but also at the same time you can get some actual experience of playing real money poker.
So if you only play the minimum 30 minutes after every lesson, it should take you about 13 hours to FINISH this course and I believe if you do it this way and put in the FOCUS and WORK, you will become a WINNING player in less than 2 weeks (if you do 2 lessons per day), so that's pretty good.
Obviously, you won't be able to beat pro players, but you will understand the game and know what's needed to get to that higher level (basically just practice on and off the tables) and you WILL be able to EASILY BEAT recreational players and most players you'll find on micro stakes tables online.
So, do you want to become a Poker Hero?
Great! Get the course now and start crushing :)
11/19/2019 - Added 40 minutes of bonus material