Golden Carrot · Complete Self-Paced Cash-Game Curriculum
Build the complete decision system for cash-game poker.
Golden Carrot combines the complete Silver foundation with four connected advanced courses—taking serious cash-game players from sound theory to advanced strategy construction, population exploitation and high-level execution.
One payment for the complete Silver and Gold curriculum. Lifetime access included.
73 core videos · Silver and Gold Pro training · One-time purchase with lifetime access
GOLDEN CARROTInside Gold
Silver builds your core game. Gold develops the advanced layer.
Silver gives you the framework for analysing hands and making sound decisions. Gold extends that framework through advanced theory, population-led exploitation, strategically unusual lines and professional training.
The complete Silver foundation
Everything in Silver comes with Gold.
No previous Carrot Corner purchase is required. Start with the included Silver foundation or continue from your current level.
Core courses
Carrot Poker School — Grade 1 · Cash Injection · trueEV
Tools and training
Ranges Through The Stakes · Silver Pro video training
Community
Private Discord access
Explore the complete Silver syllabus31 core videos across three courses
Foundation theory
Carrot Poker School — Grade 1
Build the theoretical foundations behind betting, checking, calling, bluffing and sizing—so you understand why a decision gains or loses EV.
- Equity and EV: What’s the Difference. What Makes a Play Good or Bad? Poker as a Tree of Possibilities.
- Betting vs. Checking: The Pros and Cons. Common Blunders. Common Indifferent Spots.
- Bluffing. Mandatory, Optional and Prohibited Bluffs.
- Polarisation. Relative Hand Strength.
- Calling Bets. EV Requirements. Equity Realisation. Implied Odds.
- C-Betting. Frequency and Sizing. Range Advantage and Nut Advantage.
- Barreling the Turn. Sizing. Bluff Selection. Value Thresholds.
- Float Betting. Semi-Polarised vs. Fully Polarised Strategies.
- River Play. Textural Awareness, Action Sequences and Wide-Range Spots.
- Basic Blocker Patterns. Flush-Draw Blockers, Backdoor Draws and Using Blockers on the River.
- Grade 1 Exam Feedback.
Purposeful exploitation
Cash Injection
Turn common population mistakes into purposeful exploits across single-raised and 3-bet pots.
- Destroying Flop CBets.
- Punishing Bet / Check / Bet.
- Becoming the 3Bet Pot Bully.
- Wrecking Unfiltered Ranges.
- Mastering Positional Exploits.
- Annihilating Turn Probes.
- Exploiting Flop Stabs.
- Wielding the River Block Bluff.
- Clicking It Back in 3Bet Pots.
- Folding on Underbluffed Textures.
Practical decision-making
trueEV
Compare viable actions and learn to choose the practical line that performs best against real opponents.
- Strong Hand vs. Strong Range.
- Weak Hand but Strong Range.
- Exploiting in 4Bet Pots.
- Finding the Right Value Line on the River.
- River Accuracy — Part 1.
- River Accuracy — Part 2.
- Fold Like a Lion.
- Exploitative Framework for the Flop.
- Using Elasticity.
- Understanding Filtering.
The advanced Gold curriculum
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Strategy construction
Carrot Poker School — Grade 2
Grade 2 marks the transition from proficiency to genuine skill. By developing a deep understanding of how the game works, you will become a versatile and confident poker player, able to use a firm theoretical baseline to make sense of every common and important situation.
Strategy constructionBet-sizing toolkitsBluff catching3-bet pots
Strategy construction
Carrot Poker School — Grade 2
Grade 2 marks the transition from proficiency to genuine skill. By developing a deep understanding of how the game works, you will become a versatile and confident poker player, able to use a firm theoretical baseline to make sense of every common and important situation.
Ten theory lessons
- Polarising and Condensing. Introduction to Strategy Construction.
- Value Betting. The Tier System for Made Hands.
- Bluffing. Theoretical Fold Equity. World Favourability. Tiers of Bluff.
- Bet-Sizing Toolkits. Equity Before and After Betting. Relative Polarisation.
- The Out of Position Game. Urgency. Slowplaying. Robustness.
- The In Position Game. Investment Ceilings. Hybrid Bets.
- Facing Bets 1 – Range Thresholds.
- Facing Bets 2: The Bluff Catching System.
- 3Bet Pots – Building a Flop Strategy. Board Texture.
- Raising Flop. Raising Turn. Raising River.
Take the attached PDF exam, then review the reasoning.
Pete works through the exam and shows how to reach the correct answers after you have completed it yourself.
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Advanced theory
Carrot Poker School — Grade 3
Grade 3 is a deep dive into advanced poker theory. As you build a powerful understanding of the game’s inner workings, difficult spots become simple. Master both applying aggression and defending against it while exploring lines where most players overlook valuable opportunities to increase their EV.
Range constructionBlocker effectsExtreme sizing4-bet pots
Advanced theory
Carrot Poker School — Grade 3
Grade 3 is a deep dive into advanced poker theory. As you build a powerful understanding of the game’s inner workings, difficult spots become simple. Master both applying aggression and defending against it while exploring lines where most players overlook valuable opportunities to increase their EV.
Ten theory lessons
- Advanced Range Construction 1: Calling, Raising and Folding.
- Advanced Range Construction 2: Checking and Betting.
- Important Blocker Effects. Blocking/Unblocking Folding Ranges.
- The Five Types of Flop Raise. The Three Types of Turn Raise. Playing Turn After Raising Flop.
- Handling Aggression. Bluff Catcher Selection. Board Texture. Range Width and Bluff Catching.
- Extreme Bet Sizing. Overbets. Underbets. Mastering River Sizing.
- Triple Barreling. Bluffing EV. Hyper Polar vs. Hyper Condensed Situations.
- Properly Protected Checking Ranges. Slowplaying and Blockers. SPR Considerations.
- Defending 3Bet Pots: Flop Play. Donk-Betting. Jamming Turns.
- 4-Bet Pots: Attacking and Defending. Call Only Strategies. Turn Play.
Take the attached PDF exam, then review the reasoning.
Pete works through the exam and shows how to reach the correct answers after you have completed it yourself.
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Population exploits
Carrot Poker School — Grade E
Grade E studies how the player pool actually behaves rather than how it should behave. It identifies recurring population mistakes and teaches players to construct disciplined exploits without abandoning their theoretical foundation.
Overbluffed texturesUnderbluffed texturesScattered aggression3-bet pots
Population exploits
Carrot Poker School — Grade E
Grade E studies how the player pool actually behaves rather than how it should behave. It identifies recurring population mistakes and teaches players to construct disciplined exploits without abandoning their theoretical foundation.
Ten exploitative lessons
- Facing Continuous Aggression (Triple Barrels): Where is Population bluffing too much/too little? Introducing the Exploitative Spot Rating System.
- Facing Scattered Aggression: Exploring Bet-Check-Bet, Check-Check-Bet and Check-Bet-Bet Lines. Punishing Overbluffing.
- Overbluffed Board Textures: On which boards can we call down exploitatively light?
- Underbluffed Board Textures: On which boards should we be folding lots of our range to aggression?
- Exploiting Stronger Players (Part 1): Creative Betting Lines. Causing Unfamiliarity and Confusion. How to Invent New Exploits.
- Bluffing with Continuous Aggression: Underfolded Spots. Identifying Where Bluffing is Very Winning and Very Losing vs Population.
- Bluffing with Scattered Aggression: How to Use Bet-Check-Bet and Check-Check-Bet Lines Exploitatively.
- Exploiting Stronger Players (Part 2): Inventive Lines Involving Raising. Attacking C-Bettors in 3Bet Pots. Using Raise-Sizing to Gain an Extra Edge.
- Facing Aggression in 3Bet Pots: Where are People Overbluffing/Underbluffing? Identifying the Severely Underbluffed Spots.
- Attacking in 3Bet Pots. Money Printing Situations. Exploits on Earlier Streets.
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Advanced lines
Weapons of War
Weapons of War expands the player’s strategic vocabulary. It examines powerful but underused lines, explains the conditions that make them work and turns them into reasoned options—not just a bag of tricks.
Turn probesDelayed C-betsExtreme river sizingCheck-raises
Advanced lines
Weapons of War
Weapons of War expands the player’s strategic vocabulary. It examines powerful but underused lines, explains the conditions that make them work and turns them into reasoned options—not just a bag of tricks.
Complete episode outline
- The Turn Probe Warhammer | B250
- The Delayed CBet Swiss Army Knife | B33, B75, B150
- The Swords of Check Raising Flop | 3.5x, 7x
- The River Probe Jab | B33
- The Turn Air Rifle | B75, B150
- The Triple Barrel Cannons | B75, B200
- The Turn Dynamite Check/Raise | 7x
- The River Sniper Check/Raise | 4x, 7x
- The River Bazooka | B400
- The River Pen Knife | B10
Beyond the courses
Professional training and mental-game study.
Gold Pro training
Continue beyond the core curriculum with recorded training from Luke “Clanty” Johnson, Marko “Kruzer” Matesic, Alex Pinheiro, Sebastien Wen and Keven Li. See advanced concepts applied through specialist series, high-stakes reviews, practical hand analysis and five distinct professional perspectives.
Poker Therapy
Pete’s mental-game book explores how natural human programming harms poker decisions, with practical strategies for rewiring those processes.
Golden Carrot
Get the full Carrot Corner training pathway.
Start with the Silver core, progress through four advanced courses, then deepen the areas most relevant to your game through professional training. If you want one structured, self-paced route rather than a collection of disconnected courses, Golden Carrot is the complete option.
No previous Carrot Corner purchase is required.
One-time purchase with lifetime access. Gold is self-directed training and does not include personal coaching.
Golden Carrot
Get the complete system.
One payment for the complete Silver and Gold curriculum. Lifetime access included.
- Complete 31-video Silver foundation
- 42 advanced Gold core videos
- Carrot Poker School Grades 2, 3 and E
- Weapons of War
- Silver and Gold Pro training
- Poker Therapy and private Discord
- One-time purchase with lifetime access

