We’re back for a new season! Yes, after the success of our first tour, which saw us team up with Ian Frazer, Paul Jackson, Donnacha O’ Dea and Phil “Unabomber” Laak, we’re back, and bigger and better!

We have listened to your feedback and are happy to bring you more material including plenty of live hand demonstrations and analysis of your play, interactive exercises and even one-on-one mentoring.

Our one day academies will now be from 1pm until 7pm followed by a tournament with $1000s of giveaways. The two day Boot Camps will run from 11am until 7pm for two days and have a freeroll at the end of the first day with two Vegas packages given away!

What’s more, for season two we have teamed up with two different sponsors – Black Belt Poker and GUKPT/GCasino.com. These sponsors will bring their own line up of pros and give their own exclusive prizes away in our tournaments. Have a look at the schedule below to see the pros who will be tutoring at each seminar.

Black Belt Poker Academy April 10th – Agenda

12.30 – 1.00	Registration
1.00 – 2.00	Alex Rousso – Meta-learning: improve your poker learning through tells, reviewing play and understanding how you learn
2.00 – 2.30	Live Hand exercises – pros review your play
2.30 – 2.45	Break
2.45 – 3.30	Nik Persaud – The Fundamental Theorem of Poker: how to maximise your wins and minimise your losses
3.30 – 4.00	Live Hand exercises – pros review your play
4.00 – 4.30	Break with sandwiches and drinks
4.30 – 5.00	Interactive exercise: what happened next?
5.00 – 5.45	Hugh Kirton – Poker psychology and player “levels”: how to exploit your opponents by identifying their level of thinking
5.45 – 6.15	Live Hand exercises – pros review your play
6.15 – 7.00	Channing reveals: Neil reviews some TV hands he played and explains his actions
7.00 – 7.30	Break
7.30 –	£50+£5 buy in tournament with added value for Academy attendees. Three London Live tickets + lots of goodies given away!

» GUKPT Academy, London, Sunday, 28th March

Seminar subject: The transition to the live arena
Pros: Jeff Kimber, Stuart Rutter

Seminar: 1pm – 7pm
Tournament: 7.30pm onwards
PRICE: £199
Tournament Giveaways - over £1000 in GUKPT event seats

"The Vic" casino, London
150-162 Edgware Road
London, W2 2DT

» Black Belt Academy, London, Saturday, 10th April

Pros: Neil Channing, Nik Persaud

Seminar: 1pm – 7pm
Tournament: 7.30 pm onwards
PRICE: £150 plus optional £50 +5 tourney with extra value in giveaways!
Giveaways: £600 Black Belt Boot Camp ticket Plus loads of other Black Belt goodies

"The Vic" casino, London
150-162 Edgware Road
London, W2 2DT

» Black Belt Boot Camp, London, Saturday 8th/Sunday 9th May

Pros: Neil Channing, Nik Persaud and Special Guest TBA

Seminar: 11am – 7pm each day
Tournament: 7.30pm onwards
PRICE: £600
Giveaways - Two Las Vegas packages including $1500 WSOP event buy in, accommodation and flight.

TBA

Alex Rousso is a Unibet sponsored pro. He has a PhD in evolutionary psychology, and taught university undergraduates along the way to make ends meet. He then joined the family business importing pickles, but in his spare time managed to spin an initial $300 online poker investment into $50k. Now the head tutor for Bluff Europe Poker Academy and a columnist for Bluff Europe (as "Pickleman"), he makes more money from poker than pickles. He can be found most days playing the PLO cash tables at Unibet.com.

Nik is the co-founder of Black Belt Poker. A professional online player and regular on the UK live circuit, he has a top 20 all time GUKPT ranking and has cashed twice in the WSOP main Event. Has been involved for many years in seminars, lectures and workshops and is engaging and articulate. One of the most experienced poker teachers around.

Neil is the co-founder of Black Belt Poker. One of the most well-known faces on the UK poker scene, he was the Irish Open Champion in 2008 and has cashed in no fewer than 14 WSOP events in the last two years. A regular Bluff Europe columnist, commentator on various TV poker shows and stalwart of the big game at the Vic, Neil is approachable and happy to help, and has an almost unrivalled knowledge of the live game.

Jeff has been a UK sponsored pro for many years and is currently with Gcasino. He’s cashed for over a quarter of a million dollars in each of the last four years, including being World Heads Up Champion in Barcelona in 2007 and narrowly missing out on a $2500 PLO bracelet in 2009. He’s a mainstay of the UK live circuit (with a GUKPT win at Walsall in 2008) and is one of the most affable players on the tour.

Stuart is a Cambridge maths graduate who has impressively applied his number crunching skills at the online poker tables, becoming one of the most prolific mid/high stakes cash game players on Blue Square Poker. He is also a successful regular on the live tournament circuit, making the Final Table of both 2008 and 2009 GUKPT Grand Finals. He still offers private mathematics tuition in his spare time and is looking forward to turning his hand to poker theory at the GUKPT Academy.