Poker Training
Poker Training Sites Reviewed
What is a Poker Training Site?
The term Poker Training Site is used to describe an online web-site or community developed with the purpose of poker instruction.
What all poker training sites have in common is that they offer you the chance to learn by watching the BEST online poker players playing in the biggest Multi-table tournaments in the world, as well as sit-and-go tournaments, cash games (of all types and limits). Some of the instructors are so good they can make more than $1,600,000 in ten days!.
Content is presented in a in a variety of formats:
- Poker Training videos recorded live (with commmentary)
- Analysis of games using hand-replayer
- Videos on effective use of statistics, poker tools, trackers & calculators
- Forums (ask a pro, post a hand-history for analysis)
- Professional Poker Player Blogs give insight into the life of a professional Poker Player
- Poker Training Articles
The instructors on the poker instruction sites are online (and live) poker professionals with impressive rankings and cashes under their belts of hundreds of thousands of dollars on average. Some Instructors have World Series of Poker bracelets, and all of the instructors generally play or have played in the biggest poker games live and on the internet.
What types of poker is covered?
Most of the Poker Training sites try to maintain a good balance between cash and tournament instructional content - expect most sites to cover tournaments, SNG’s and MTT’s, however many sites have a selection of videos on non-hold-em games such as Omaha, Omaha hi-low, and 7-2 lowball - with expert commentary from the instructor - explaining the thought behind
every action.
Some sites are geared more towards cash-game play than tournament play - however our Poker Training Site guides below will help you find the poker training site which suits your needs.
Why should I join a Poker Training Site?
With membership to the poker training sites, you can learn from and interact with the best online poker players in the world, and you can learn and be entertained by hundreds of poker training videos by a variety of successful players with different styles.
Most sites grant you access to private forums in which you can post hand histories / videos of your games for analysis by the pro’s. You can join in exclusive private tournaments and leagues and win fat prizes, all for a small monthly fee.
Instructional Poker Sites Reviewed
Cardrunners
Cardrunners is undoubtedly the #1 cash game video training site for online poker players (CR also caters for multi-table players). Cardrunners is a Poker Training which was set up by online professional poker player Taylor Caby (A.K.A “Green Plastic”) in mid 2005, and which now boasts more than 500 videos and over 25 professional instructors.
PokerXFactor
PokerXFactor training videos take you step-by-step through huge online poker tournaments and Sit-N-Go’s along with top-ranked resident pros, JohnnyBax and Sheets.
learn how they negotiate the online poker tournament minefield to win consistently.
In real game situations, JohnnyBax and Sheets narrate their play in videos that stream to your computer desktop. Watch as they demonstrate key Texas Hold’em concepts
and strategies - from playing position, bluffing, and table image to pot odds, sensing weakness, reading players, and much more.
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RealPokerTraining
Real Poker Training videos allow you to watch and listen to top ranked professional poker players as if you were sitting right behind them at
the poker table. Since the opponents can’t hear what the RealPokerTraining pros are saying in their microphone, you get to hear first hand
each thought process that goes into making each decision as it happens LIVE!
Instructors at RealPokerTraining include Todd Arnold, Chad “M8kingmoves” Batista, “BodogAri” and Chris “Fox” Wallace.
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PokerFox
PokerFox is instructional site by Chris “Fox” Wallace and Adam “hatfield13″ Stemple. Resources include videos, a library of articles
from bankroll building to bubble play. Instructor Chris Wallace also maintains an interesting blog in which he battles from
low stakes SNG to the sky!
StoxPoker
Nick “Stoxtrader” Grudzien opened Stoxpoker.com in March 2006, and as the sole contributor released one or two videos to the website each week. In September 2007 Nick began to add more staff,
and (as of Oct. 10, 2007) the site now boasts a staff of 8 elite coaches, 3 of which are published authors!
Stoxpoker.com is currently releasing three guaranteed videos a week on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday schedule, but has been releasing weekly bonus videos from their new MTT and SNG staff. Stoxpoker coaches include Matt Matros, Nick “Stoxtrader” Grudzien, Bryce “Freedom 25” Paradis and Collin Moshman (author of the 2+2 published book “SitNGo Strategy” as a Stoxpoker Expert Coach for SitNGo’s).
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