Getting Started with Drills

Drills are saved Trainer settings. Instead of configuring the Trainer each time, you can store your preferred setup as a Drill and return to it whenever you want.

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Why use Drills?

Poker training is most effective when it’s focused. Rather than practicing your entire strategy at once, Drills let you concentrate on specific situations—for example, Raise First In (RFI) from early position, or defending the Big Blind versus different open sizes.

By isolating spots into individual Drills, you can:

• Build muscle memory faster for each scenario.
• Track progress in a structured way.
• Adjust the level of difficulty (Learn vs. Challenge Mode).
• Create a repeatable training routine without reconfiguring settings.

In short, Drills exist to help you train smarter, not harder.

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Creating a new Drill

1. In the navigation bar, go to Drills.
2. Click New Drill.

3. Select the strategy you want to train.
4. Give your Drill a descriptive name (e.g. 6-max 100BB RFI).
5. Configure the settings – see Trainer Settings for a detailed breakdown of all options.
6. Save the Drill.

Your Drill now appears in the Drills overview.

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Best practices for using Drills

When you first begin, it’s best to keep things simple and build up gradually:

• Start with Raise First In (RFI).
  Focus on unopened pots before moving on to more complex spots.

• Use Learn Mode first.
  In Learn Mode, the ranges are visible, which helps you build familiarity and confidence.

• Switch to Challenge Mode.
  Once you know the ranges, hide them and test your recall. Challenge Mode also lets you earn XP.

• Expand step by step.
  After RFI, move on to:

  • Big Blind Defense (vs. different open sizes)
  • Button vs. Blinds (BTN opens, SB/BB responses)
  • 3-bet and 4-bet pots

• Work towards full coverage.
  Over time, add Drills for each important spot until your strategy is fully covered.

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Example roadmap for Drills

Here’s a suggested sequence of Drills to build up your skills step by step:

Drill Name	Strategy	Focus Area	Suggested Mode
6-max 100BB RFI	Baseline MTT	Raise First In	Start in Learn, then switch to Challenge
6-max 100BB BB vs RFI	Baseline MTT	Big Blind Defense	Learn → Challenge
BTN vs SB/BB Defend	Tournament 40BB	Button vs Blinds	Challenge (after RFI)
CO vs BTN 3-bet Pots	Tournament 60BB	3-bet Response	Challenge
SB 4-bet Scenarios	Tournament 40BB ICM	4-bet Defense/Attack	Challenge only

The roadmap starts with the fundamentals—RFI spots—because they appear most often and form the backbone of every strategy. Once you are comfortable there, you can move to Big Blind Defense, which is another highly frequent and high-impact situation. From there, you progress to Button vs. Blinds and eventually to more advanced spots like 3-bet and 4-bet pots, which occur less often but require precise knowledge.

By following this progression, you build a solid base before tackling more complex situations, ensuring that your training time is always spent on the most valuable areas first.

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Next steps

• Create your first Drill for RFI spots and practice in Learn Mode.
• Add more Drills as you progress to other positions and situations.
• Track your improvement in the Progress section to see how your accuracy develops over time.

Drills let you turn theory into muscle memory—one spot at a time.