# Five-session poker study cycle

Use after play. These are sessions, not mandatory consecutive days.
A short session may complete only its first step. Resume without accumulating debt.
Keep your completed notes private; do not put them in the website repository.

Directory: https://nolankido.com/poker/study/
Practice: https://nolankido.com/poker/practice-room/

## Session 1: Price the decision

Read: https://nolankido.com/poker/pot-odds-workshop/
Do: Practice questions 01 and 02 before revealing the answers.
Produce: One ledger naming the current pot, amount to call and final eligible pot.
Small version: Explain why a raise-to amount is not the amount still owed.
My output:

## Session 2: Count the assumed range

Read: https://nolankido.com/poker/range-combinations/
Do: Practice questions 05 and 06.
Produce: One value/bluff inventory after known-card removal, with explicit weights.
Small version: Count AA combinations after two aces are known elsewhere.
My output:

## Session 3: Match the game state

Read: https://nolankido.com/poker/short-stack-decisions/
Do: Practice questions 07 and 08; complete one short-stack input record.
Produce: A compatibility label with each missing or mismatched input named.
Small version: Separate starting stack, chips behind, live blind and ante.
My output:

## Session 4: Separate chips, prizes and results

Read: https://nolankido.com/poker/tournament-equity/
Then: https://nolankido.com/poker/variance-and-results/
Do: Practice questions 09 and 10.
Produce: Explain the toy ICM risk premium and label one results calculation.
Small version: State why doubling chips need not double expected prize value.
My output:

## Session 5: Explain one decision honestly

Read: https://nolankido.com/poker/hand-to-vlog/
Do: Practice question 12 and one episode-planning sheet, without publishing it.
Produce: Separate recorded action, remembered thinking and later review.
Small version: Replace one invented precise claim with a verifiable statement.
My output:

## Close the cycle

- One mistake I can now explain:
- One unresolved question:
- One changed example to test next time (not just a memorized answer):
- One thing that is complete enough to stop revising:

Correct answers here do not certify poker skill, a win rate or a solved strategy.
Follow event rules and spending limits. Do not use study tools at the table.