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Upswing Poker

Poker training, courses, tools, and strategy content from a coach-led specialist brand

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Vertical
Online Poker
Listed since
August 17, 2026
Markets
Global
Type
Guides/strategy

About this site

Upswing Poker is a poker training company and strategy publisher built around coach-led courses, study tools, free articles, preflop charts, quizzes, reviews, and membership products for players who want to improve rather than simply compare poker rooms. Its rendered About page says the business was Founded by Doug Polk, Ryan Fee, and Matt Colletta in 2015 and grew from a strategy blog into the world's biggest poker training company with courses and tools for every popular game type.

That makes Upswing distinct inside the current poker set. It is not primarily a live-reporting newsroom like PokerNews, not an editorially independent general media brand like Poker.org, and not a forum-first community like CardsChat or TwoPlusTwo. The core value is structured improvement: coach-specific training, drills, and format-specific study resources spanning no-limit hold'em, PLO, heads-up, tournaments, mixed games, and live cash.

The commercial model is also different from affiliate-led room-review sites. Upswing mainly monetizes by selling premium education, memberships, and software-style training tools, so the bias is toward product upsell rather than pushing users into one poker room. Readers still need other publishers for broad room comparisons, breaking news, and peer discussion, but Upswing adds genuine depth as a training-and-tools specialist.

Editorial review

Our assessment of Upswing Poker

Key features

  • Coach-led poker training brand with structured courses, tools, quizzes, reviews, and free strategy resources
  • Covers multiple poker formats including no-limit hold'em, PLO, heads-up, tournaments, mixed games, and live cash
  • Built around named pros and paid training products rather than poker-room rankings or forum chatter

Strengths

  • Much deeper training focus than room-review affiliates because the core product is education, drills, and premium coaching
  • Clear named-founder and named-coach bench gives the brand stronger subject-matter credibility than anonymous strategy blogs
  • Useful complement to PokerNews, Poker.org, and CardsChat because it is primarily a training company rather than a news site or forum

Limitations

  • Commercial incentives are product-led, with heavy upsells into paid courses, memberships, and training tools
  • It is not an independent news or community hub, so readers looking for room comparisons or peer discussion still need other poker publishers

Who it is best for

Upswing Poker is best for serious poker players who want structured training, drills, and coach-led study resources across multiple game types.

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