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Omaha Poker Training: Grounded in GTO

As on Blay’s other site, Advanced Poker Training, the magic (i.e., the “secret sauce”) in OPT is the poker simulation software. In this tool, you can play hundreds of hands in an hour. Facilitating this kind of high-volume practice allows full sessions to be played — and learned from — in a fraction of the time it would take in a live card room.

OPT’s poker bots are grounded in GTO (Game Theory Optimal) play. Blay consulted with PLO experts in the development of OPT and spent months simply working through the hand rankings derived via GTO theory. PLO expert John Beauprez has a whole team that has analyzed PLO since solvers were first developed who helped with the GTO aspect of the site.

With all of that said, GTO play is not for everyone. Most PLO players at your local casino or poker room will not have a GTO Omaha game. For players that do seek GTO training, the bots can be set to play at a very high level. By contrast, beginners and intermediate players can reduce their opponent difficulty levels substantially. They can train against more “lifelike” bots that are going to play much like the typical players you meet in a card room.

Omaha Poker Training: Practice PLO with Feedback

The magic of Omaha Poker Training is that it offers unlimited poker practice coupled with helpful and effective feedback on your game.

You can choose from 9-max or 6-max PLO cash games and multi-table tournaments. The wide range of tournament options allows you to customize training to target your home game, local card room, or even a $10,000 championship event at the World Series of Poker. Opponents can be selected from easy, moderate, or expert play in order to model training at a level that is right for the individual’s typical circumstances. You can even set starting hand ranges that are particularly troublesome so as to focus and improve on the exact situations currently causing you difficulty at the tables.

Ten different computerized advisors, with a variety of styles, are available to provide suggestions. You can compare your decision with the top-line advice given or examine your and your opponent’s ranges to determine the optimal strategic move.

When the Show My Range button is accessed, an evaluation of your hand itself is shown:

You can also peek at your opponents’ ranges to get a little more insight into which starting hands they might be playing against you. These resources offer the critical information needed to make good poker decisions at each phase of a hand.

After you’ve spent some time at the table, OPT’s Reports and History function comes into play. After each game, players receive a game report detailing their session stats. These include traditional HUD statistics, such as VPIP and PFR, as well as the identification of your most and least successful hands, and the percentage of the time moving to each street. You can revisit hands by watching an instant replay or by tagging hands to revisit later.

The beauty of Omaha Poker Training is that every hand you play is saved forever into your own online database. You can get detailed reports about your play filtered via a huge number of criteria, including dates, hand types, and position. After a while, you’ll start to see trends in your reports. You can focus on your trouble areas by configuring the software to deal you specific kinds of hands.

For instance, you can freeze the button and only play out of the big blind. You can also choose to deal yourself only playable hands, or those in specific ranges. You can also dial up the aggressiveness of your opponents if those loose-aggressive types tend to give you trouble. You can even choose to practice hands from a certain range that you have identified as a trouble spot. It’s focused practice that it really cuts down your training time.

Omaha Poker Training: Pricing

Blay has continued his mission with OPT to keep poker training costs both affordable and flexible. As the graphic below illustrates, you can try a full-access package for a month or commit to a year at half the monthly rate (or choose the intermediate solution). At such affordable price points, getting a positive return on your investment, if you use the site well, is almost assured.

Omaha Poker Training Provides Access to a Continually Growing Set of Features and Resources

OPT isn’t just a resource for seasoned PLO players looking to improve. It also offers several resources for those who are just learning the game, such as players with exclusively No Limit Hold’em poker backgrounds. There are instructional videos and articles, as well as a list of resources for Omaha information elsewhere online. There is even a blog for those interested in keeping up with current happenings in the world of PLO.

Omaha Poker Training continually offers new experiences with the basic OPT membership. For instance, the site has recently added live daily PLO tournaments, so when you want to try your skills against other live players, the opportunity is there for you. The developers of OPT have pledged to continue responding to the needs of their members in evolving the site to even greater heights in the coming years.

All in all, if you want to improve your Pot Limit Omaha game and decide to buy this excellent poker training product, we’re pretty certain it’ll be an investment that’ll pay for itself many times over.

Advanced Poker Training: Play, Guidance, and Feedback

The central Advanced Poker Training tool is their No Limit simulation software. With this tool, you can play hundreds of hands per hour. This high volume practice allows you to play full sessions in a fraction of the time it would take to do so in a live card room.

Players can choose from 9-max or 6-max cash games, Sit-n-Gos, Multi-Table Tournaments, and even Heads Up Play. The wide range of tournament options allows players to customize their training to target their local Texas Hold’em home game, public card room, or even World Series of Poker bracelet events. Opponents can be selected for easy, moderate, or expert play in order to model training at a level that is right for your typical circumstances and who you’re likely to be facing at the felt. For instance, if you’re a member of an online community like BeastsOfPoker, you can probably up the level to “expert play”. You can even set starting hands or positions that you find to be particularly troublesome.

New in 2022, APT has added a suite of GTO-style bots that are a great complement to the human-like bots that APT has always offered. The new bots play a frequency-based approach, common in players using GTO techniques.

When playing the human-like bots, twenty-eight different computerized advisors, with a variety of styles, are available to provide suggestions if you wish to access them. You can just compare their decision with the top-line advice given or you can choose to dive much deeper into the situational and mathematical bases for this advice through the Brain button.

When the Brain button is accessed, an evaluation of your hand itself is shown:

Then you will see a variety of other factors to consider as you make your decision:

Finally, an analysis of the other players remaining in the hand is provided:

These resources offer the critical information needed to make good poker decisions at each phase of a hand.

The GTO Bot advisors are a little different than APT’s classic advisors. You can see your hand value, which is a measure of how strong our hand is right now. The hand value is calculated as if there were no more cards to come. Also, when choosing to play against GTO bots, you have the opportunity to view your (and their) complete hand ranges at every decision point. You also have the opportunity to do a deeper dive into each recommendation by hovering over each hand option and seeing in which situations the GTO advisor recommends raising, calling, or folding.

While this ought to be obvious to any true poker player, it’s worth mentioning that APT’s training is applicable for Texas Hold’em poker play pretty much exclusively. It’s possible that the general concepts you’ll learn will be applicable to other poker variants, like Pot Limit Omaha, or even poker games you play against the casino like Ultimate Texas Hold ’em or 3-card poker. That said, if you’re trying to improve your three card poker strategy or perhaps get better at Caribbean Stud or other poker variants, you would best be served by other types of dedicated training materials. If you are interested in upping your PLO game, you may be interested in APT’s sister training site, Omaha Poker Training.

In any event, at the end of each week, APT members receive a weekly training plan that analyzes their most critical areas of weakness. The weekly training plan identifies trouble spots, explains how they were determined, calculates the cost for that particular leak, and then assigns a set of practice hands so you can focus specifically on those issues.

The Additional Training Resources button directs members to a wide variety of articles and videos related to the identified trouble spots. The Weekly Training Plan is a powerful tool that, if used regularly, will improve one’s game rapidly.

In addition to the weekly training plan, members have access to APT’s Reports and History Section, which offers a wealth of helpful information. Displays include performance on different starting hands and how your outcomes compare to those of other APT members. Performance can be selected across all hands played, or only within a certain time period, such as the past week or month. You can also see performance across all games or only for a certain type, such as 6-max or MTT.

The Reports section also provides you with feedback on certain poker actions, such as raising pre-flop and continuation betting, the amount that luck has affected performance, and an analysis of best and most challenging hands. The hand analysis section allows for replay of hands that have been tagged as outstanding by APT and hands that the member has identified as problematic.

In addition to APT’s basic play and analytic offerings, they also offer several focused training experiences. “Beat the Pro” Challenges allow you to compare their skills with poker pros like David Williams, Ed Miller, Scott Clements, and many more. After trying the Challenge yourself, you can listen to audio commentary from the pro as they play the same hands and explain their thought process.

APT also offers a Combat Trainer designed for intensive repeated play so that you evolve more sophisticated strategies in common difficult scenarios. While a specific tricky situation may not arise more than a couple of times over months of live play, with the Combat Trainer you can play a single scenario 100 times in less than 30 minutes!

Advanced Poker Training: Pricing

The image below pretty much speaks for itself. Rare are the Texas Hold’em poker training materials that offer players so much at such a low cost. Multiple different pricing plans are available so you can choose the one that fits you best in terms of the amount of time you’ve got available to study as well as how serious you wish to take your poker play.

Finally, APT offers a wide variety of resources and opportunities for community engagement. There is an odds tool, an ICM chop tool, and a shove/fold calculator available for members’ use. There are also intense training games, which enable players to gain facility reading boards. APT offers platforms for you to interact through their daily live tournaments and through a  forum where hand analysis and other poker related discussions take place. APT also hosts webinars by pros and poker coaches including Alex Fitzgerald, Jonathan Little, Kenna James, and APT founder Steve Blay.

Advanced Poker Training adds resources and features on a weekly basis, and all are included with the basic APT membership. Whether you need to work on your play with pocket Jacks on the button or suited connectors in the small blind, APT can help you close your leaks and develop mastery over your Texas Hold’em game.

Simply put, you can’t go wrong purchasing this excellent poker training product.