Table positions and the vocabulary we'll use

The whole course uses the 6-max table (six seats), the standard format of modern online poker. Every seat has a name, and the name matters more than the cards — you’ll see that in the first Fundamentals lesson.

The map of the table

In preflop order of action:

Position	Name	In short
UTG	Under the gun	First to act. The worst position: five opponents behind you.
MP	Middle position	Second to act (also “HJ”, hijack).
CO	Cutoff	Third. Where the profitable zone starts.
BTN	Button	The best seat at the table: acts last on flop, turn and river.
SB	Small blind	Posts half a forced blind. Acts first postflop: bad position.
BB	Big blind	Posts the full blind. Closes the preflop action “at a discount”.

The golden rule we’ll build on: the later you act, the more hands you can play. Acting last is free information on every street.

The ten course terms

1. Range: the set of hands someone can hold in a spot, not one specific hand. It’s written in notation like 22+, AJs+, KQo — our range viewer turns it into a picture.
2. Suited / offsuit: AJs = same suit (4 combos); AJo = different suits (12). They’re not worth the same.
3. Equity: your share of the pot over the long run if the hand were played infinite times. AA against a random hand has ~85% equity; 72o, ~35%.
4. EV (expected value): what a play wins or loses on average. Playing well = always taking the higher-EV option, not the one that “worked out” this time.
5. Pot odds: the price the pot offers you to call a bet. The most profitable math in poker, with a lesson of its own.
6. Outs: the cards that improve your hand. A flush draw has 9.
7. Open / open-raise: the first preflop raise when nobody has entered the pot yet.
8. 3-bet: the re-raise over an open (the blind was the “first bet”, the open the second).
9. C-bet (continuation bet): the flop bet from the player who was the preflop aggressor.
10. Pot: we size bets relative to it (“bet half the pot”). And stacks in big blinds (bb) — “100bb” is this course’s standard stack.

How the course continues

With this you’re ready for the Fundamentals course: seven lessons that run from opening by position all the way to a complete training plan, each one wired to real trainer spots so you practice with instant scoring.

Free in the meantime: the daily quiz and the 10 daily spots in the trainer cost nothing.