Get Real-Time Advice While Playing Up To 500 Hands Per Hour

With the poker world still blindsided by Qui Nguyen’s dominating victory at the 2016 World Series of Poker main event, one question on everyone’s mind is, how did he do it? And how can I play like that? You might recall that Nguyen wore the Advanced Poker Training patch during the November Nine broadcast, and now is releasing training material on the site, including hand-by-hand commentary of his main event win.

Advanced Poker Training has more than 35,000 members from 27 countries. The core feature of APT’s offering is a web-based (no download) poker simulator. You can play simulated cash games against a full table, or a six-max shorthanded table. In addition, you can play tournaments simulating anything from a home game to a huge multi-table tournament like the WSOP main event against up to 8,000 intelligent, lifelike characters. They just added a Heads-up trainer as well, with a heads-up cash game or sit-n-go against the “Qui Nguyen Bot” or over 50 other challengers.

While playing any game type, you get real-time advice, the ability to replay or share every hand you play, and reports loaded with statistics and analysis of your game. You can play up to 500 hands an hour and even choose which starting hands you are dealt for targeted practice.

The site provides a weekly training plan with a list of identified weaknesses and guides you to training resources in that area. A “Practice Now” button deals you hands directly related to the specific weakness identified. You can then get advice, and potential problem hands are tagged for later review.

In conjunction with the training plan, APT includes a series of reports that visually allow you to analyze every aspect of your game. There’s a hand chart that shows all 169 unique hole card combinations and uses trend analysis to detect negative trends on specific hands. It’s great for identifying hands you might be playing sub-optimally. The reports also let you look at your performance at each position, in each different tournament stage, and even on each street. Additionally, you can analyze various skill areas, such as preflop raising, continuation betting, blind stealing, and more. You can even analyze how lucky you’ve been recently. And all this is shown graphically – you don’t have to be a number cruncher.

But possibly the best feature is the “Beat the Pro” Challenge series, which lets you learn from bracelet-winning pros and poker legends, such as Scotty Nguyen, Mike Caro, Jonathan Little, David Williams, Scott Clements, and more. These challenges pit you head-to-head against the pros, playing exactly the same group of poker hands in a variety of categories and situations. After you finish, you watch a replay of the pro playing those same hands, explaining their thought process the entire way.

An all-access pass to all of the features on Advanced Poker Training is less than $30 a month, with discounts for longer-term memberships. Considering the cost and rich feature set, it is easily worth much more. There isn’t a more complete learning tool available.

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