From Unfamiliar to Table Ready
Understand the mix. Follow the action. Sit down with confidence.
Mixed game poker can feel complicated when every change of game seems to bring a completely different set of rules.
MGA Foundations gives you a practical system for recognising what you are playing, understanding what matters and finding your feet when the game changes.
Mixed Games Shouldn’t Feel Like Ten Unrelated Rulebooks
You might already know Hold’em. You may even have played PLO or tried a few mixed games.
But once the rotation starts changing, it is easy to lose track of what you are playing for, how the betting works, what starts the action or which rule has just changed.
Foundations does not ask you to memorise everything.
It teaches you how to recognise the patterns that connect the games, then identify the changes that matter.
You Know Poker, but the Mix Loses You
You are comfortable with familiar games but lose your bearings when the rotation changes.
The Rules Start to Blur Together
You have tried mixed games, but want a reliable way to recognise what stays the same and what changes.
You Want Confidence Before Advanced Strategy
You want to understand the games and participate properly before worrying about sophisticated strategy.
Foundations is not designed to make you an expert overnight. It is designed to make the mix make sense.
Know Enough to Get Into the Game
Recognise the Game
Identify the family, objective and betting structure.
Understand What Matters
Know the essential mechanics, hand-ranking system and game-specific change that matters.
Make the Next Clear Decision
Follow the action, ask the right question when you are unsure and make the next clear decision.
Table Ready does not mean mastering advanced mixed game strategy. It means understanding what is happening well enough to participate intelligently and confidently.
Eight Modules. One Clear Path Through the Mix.
Foundations shows you how mixed games connect, teaches you the core mechanics of the Draw, Stud and Flop families, then helps you use that understanding to follow the rotation and sit down ready to play.
Understand the Mix
The Draw Family
The Stud Family
The Flop Family
Split-Pot Poker
Putting the Mix Together
Table Ready
Now Play
Learn It. See It. Use It.
Foundations combines clear explanations, purpose-built visuals, knowledge checks and realistic table scenarios so you can understand the concepts, recognise them when they appear and use them when the game changes.
Understand the essential rules, mechanics and language without being buried in unnecessary strategy.
Purpose-built graphics help you see how the games work and recognise what changes from one game to the next.
Knowledge checks and realistic scenarios reinforce what you have learned before you take it to the table.
Build the Confidence.
Then Use It.
MGA Foundations is not designed to keep you studying forever.
The goal is to help you recognise the game, understand what is happening and feel confident enough to sit down and play.
Work through the course at your own pace, revisit the material whenever you need it, then take what you have learned to the table.
Shannon “Prince” Van Den Berg
Founder & Instructor, Mixed Games Academy
Foundations brings together the practical systems and teaching approach used across MGA to help players understand mixed games and participate with confidence.
A$129
Learn at your own pace and revisit the material whenever you need it.
YOUR ENROLMENT INCLUDES
- 8 structured Foundations modules
- Structured lessons and purpose-built teaching graphics
- Module checkpoints and assessments with answer feedback
- Practical Table Ready learning systems
- Module 8 application scenarios
- Relevant video instruction and demonstrations
- MGA course reference guide
- MGA Foundations Certificate of Completion
UPDATES INCLUDED
Your lifetime access includes future corrections, improvements and updates to MGA Foundations.
Lifetime access applies to MGA Foundations. Future standalone MGA courses and programs are separate products.
MGA Foundations FAQs
Not sure whether Foundations is the right place to start? These are the questions players most often need answered before enrolling.
You do not need previous mixed game experience. A basic familiarity with poker will help, but Foundations teaches the structures, mechanics and table language you need to begin understanding the MGA mix.
No. Foundations focuses on recognition, mechanics, hand-ranking systems, table language and practical participation. It is designed to make you Table Ready, not turn you into an advanced mixed game strategist.
Foundations covers the MGA ten-game rotation: No Limit Hold’em, Seven Card Stud, Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or Better, Razz, Pot Limit Omaha, Limit Hold’em, Badugi, No Limit Deuce-to-Seven Single Draw, Stud Hi/Lo 8 or Better and Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw.
No. Foundations teaches you to recognise the patterns that connect the games and identify the important changes when the rotation moves. The goal is understanding and navigation, not memorising ten disconnected rulebooks.
Yes. Module checkpoints and assessments reinforce the material and provide answer feedback. Module 8 then uses practical application scenarios to bring the Foundations systems together.
No. Foundations is not an advanced strategy course. It gives you the understanding, practical systems and confidence to participate intelligently, then continue developing through experience and further learning.
From Unfamiliar to Table Ready.
Build the understanding and confidence to follow the mix, recognise what matters and get into the game.
