The WSOP Academy curriculum has been written and endorsed by our team of pro instructors. The curriculum has been carefully designed to arm you with the tools to take your game to the next level.

The WSOP Academy Curriculum will be presented through three teaching methods:

• Live Hand Demonstrations
• Seminars including Q&A
• Tournaments

Topics covered

Skills, Strategies and Applications:

- Playing position
- Betting Strategies
- Pre-flop betting
- Post-flop betting
- Stealing
- Poker Mathematics
- Calculation of Pot Odds
- Bluffing & Semi Bluffing
- Personal Assessment of Playing Style
- The importance of Aggression
- Assessing Opponents
- Strategies for Winning No Limit Hold’em Tournaments

- Strategy to make a final table
- Strategy based on stack size (Large stack vs. Small Stack)
- Patience
- Endurance
- Setting up Table Image
- Changing Gears
- Shorthanded vs. Full table
- Handling Mental Pressures of Major Tournaments
- Controlling Emotions & Bad Beats
- Keys to Navigate through tournaments with large fields (WSOP)
- Decoding Non-Verbal Behavior – The Tells of Poker

- Picking up Tells – What to look for in your opponents
- Controlling Emotion and Behavior
- Importance of Observation
- Common non-verbal tells
- How to spot a Bluff
- Strategies for Concealment

- Internet Poker, Cash Games & Sit-n-Go’s

- Differences between live action vs. internet
- Online Bluffing
- Cash Games vs. Tournament Play
- Sit-n-Go Strategy
- Practice Exercises – playing lower limits
- Hand Selection