Simple Poker Systems: What’s Inside BBZ’s 12 System MTT Course

What are Poker Systems?

The premise is old and not complicated. A solver answer is exact, and it is exact about one board, one stack depth, one pair of ranges. What you want at the table is the thing that survives the turn card changing. So you take a spot that comes up constantly, work it out properly once, and come away with a rule you can run in a second and a half.

Do that twelve times and you have the Simple Poker Systems course.

A student put the method better than the sales page does:

Faulkdogg: “Rather than trying to memorize outputs Jordan teaches you concepts that apply across a large number of situations. He then reinforces those concepts by drilling in real-time and comparing his answer to the solver output. You will immediately be able to use these systems at the table.”

What a system buys you is repeatability. It plays the same on hour six as on hour one, the same across six tables as across one, the same when you are card dead and irritated as when you are running good. Over a year that consistency is worth more than the last sliver of EV you would squeeze out by rebuilding every spot from scratch.

The Three Preflop Lessons

Three videos, thirty-seven minutes:

• Raise First In (RFI), 17:28
• vs. RFI, 13:47
• 3-Betting vs Steals, 6:32

These line your opening ranges up with the ones the twelve systems assume, so when a system says you opened the cutoff, you and Jordan mean the same range. If yours are already solid, it is a quick calibration pass and you are into the systems. If you would rather have them automatic first, the preflop charts and trainer is the fastest route, and every system lands harder once the ranges underneath are second nature.

The Twelve Systems

Twenty-two videos in total, nine hours and fifty minutes of runtime.

• System 1. UTG vs BB Call: C-betting Flops. 32:22
• System 2. BTN vs BB: C-betting and Checking Flops. 49:05
• System 3. BB vs SB Limp Stab. 41:07
• System 4. River Bluffing from the Big Blind, three parts. 1:33:10
• System 5. Barreling Medium Strength Hands in Error. 27:10
• System 6. Check Raising Top Pair. 42:11
• System 7. C-bet Folding Flops. 42:51
• System 8. Bet Sizing In Position. 34:52
• System 9. Defending Flops: Calls and Raises. 36:13
• System 10. River Value Betting, two parts. 1:07:42
• System 11. Hero Calling, two parts. 1:00:31
• System 12. Defending 3-Bets Out of Position. 24:08

Simple Poker Systems covers the most meaningful stack sizes in MTTs. That is where you spend the bulk of every tournament, and where postflop play decides the hand rather than a preflop shove.

How Jordan Builds a System

A solver will tell you exactly what to do in a spot, and that answer is worth having. It is also an answer about one board, one stack depth, one pair of ranges, and it arrives as a mix. Change the turn card and you get a different one. The value is in the pattern sitting underneath all of them, and reaching that pattern is the work.

So the work is in the repetition. Run the spot over enough boards and stack depths and the parts that hold separate out from the parts that move. Frequencies move around a lot. What is driving them tends to hold.

Whatever holds becomes the system, and it gets written in terms you can see while you are playing. Who has the range advantage on this texture. Whether the caller can credibly have the nuts. How many draws are out there for them to bluff with. You will recall a condition at the table long after the percentage is gone.

Then it gets checked back the other way. You play the rule against the solver and measure what the shortcut costs. The rules that give up almost nothing are the ones that make the course. That test is the reason a system is worth trusting at speed: it has already been priced against the exact answer, and it came back cheap.

What You Get Back

A system closes the spot. Once BB versus SB limped pots is a rule you trust, it stops drawing study time, and it stops drawing table time, which is the half people undervalue. The seconds you are not spending there are seconds available somewhere that is still hard.

That is the compounding part. Ordinary study leaves you with an answer to a hand. A system leaves you with a rule for a whole class of hands, so the session you put in during March is still paying you in July.

Twelve of those and the shape of your study changes. You spend your time on what is still open, with the settled spots running themselves.

It is also why the runtimes fall where they do. Rivers take two hours forty-one of the ten, more than any other street, because river pots are the biggest and a rule you can trust there pays the most per hour you spend building it.

What a System Looks Like: C-Bet Folding Flops

System 7 shows the shape these take, so here is the logic of one.

Most players treat c-betting as a hand problem. Look at your two cards, decide whether they are strong enough to bet, and if a raise comes back, work it out then. That last part is the leak. By the time the raise arrives you are solving a hard problem on a clock with money already in the middle.

The system flips the order. You decide whether you are bet-folding before you bet, and you decide it off the board, not your hand.

High, Dry, Disconnected Boards

A-7-2 rainbow, K-8-3 rainbow, Q-6-2 rainbow. Your range as the preflop raiser is far stronger than the caller’s here, so you bet nearly everything at a small size, a quarter to a third of pot. When a raise comes back, it is rare and it is heavily weighted to value, because there are very few draws for the caller to bluff with. On these boards you fold everything below top pair to a raise. That includes second pair. It feels bad and it is correct: your small bet only needed to work often enough to pay for itself, and it did.

Middling Connected Boards

9-8-6 two-tone, J-T-7, 7-6-5. This is where your range is weakest relative to the caller’s, because they have called preflop with exactly the hands that connect here and you have not. Bet far less often. But the hands you do bet, you defend. Raises on these boards are wide, draw-heavy and full of hands that will barrel a blank. Folding top pair here is the mirror-image error to calling second pair on A-7-2.

Paired Boards

K-K-4, 8-8-3, 5-5-2. Almost nobody has trips. Raises are close to pure bluff at a low frequency. Bet wide and small, and do not fold any pair to a single raise.

None of that is exotic on its own. What makes it work is that the category gets named before you put money in, so the raise never becomes something you have to solve at the table.

The course spends 42 minutes on this one, because naming the category correctly is where the work is. The other eleven systems are built the same way.

What You Get

Simple Poker Systems is a one-time purchase and you own it for life. You can watch it anywhere you can access bbzpoker.com

The BBZ Discord is open to anyone and is not gated behind a purchase, but it is where students post hands, graphs and questions, and where most of the feedback quoted below originally appeared. If you buy the course, join the BBZ Discord and get involved with the community or talk directly to BBZ Coaches. If you ever have questions about any of the material or concepts, this is the best place to ask!

Start Here

Simple Poker Systems is the recommended entry point into the BBZ Course Library. It establishes the method, and the courses that follow assume you have it. After that, order is genuinely down to taste. Pick the one that matches the spots you are interested in improving.

Students give the same advice unprompted. The most common route they describe is Simple Poker Systems first, then Pressure Poker Systems, then Passive Poker Systems.

wolfispirit: “I started with Simple Poker Systems which already improved my poker thought process so much and I got hooked by the way you teach poker. I followed it up with River Simplifications, Pressure Systems, Multiway Systems, and now Passive Systems just rounded everything up so very well.”

Two more worth knowing about. Small Blind Mastery: Limped Pots goes deeper on the spot System 3 introduces, and River Simplifications extends the river work in Systems 4 and 10.

Built for Beginners and Professionals

This course is for all tournament players studying chipEV. These are the spots where the goal is winning chips, before ICM changes what a chip is worth. If the leak you are working on is bubbles or at the final table, [BBZ’s complete guide to final tables](/bbzs-complete-guide-to-final-tables/) and the ICM material are the better starting point.

These are the same concepts Jordan teaches in [private coaching](/private-coaching/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=simple-poker-systems-course-guide), and every student he takes on works through this material first, whether they arrived as a beginner or as a professional with a record behind them. The private work is built on these foundations, and there is no sense paying coaching rates to cover ground a course covers better.

Two objections come up, and they come from opposite directions. Beginners ask whether it is too advanced for them. Professionals ask whether it is too simple, written for someone earlier in the journey.

A foundation does different work depending on where you are standing on it. For a beginner it is what lets you compete with players who have studied longer. You don’t need to buy a solver, run the solves, and figure out how it works, Jordan has already don it for you.

For a professional it is building a strategic framework that you no longer have to think about. Every spot you simplify with a system is a spot you stop re-solving, re-analyzing, and re-learning. The hours that frees up go to the nuanced, higher-value spots where you build to your edge.

What Students Are Saying

Simple Poker Systems reviews are easy to find. Numbers are harder. Five students, with theirs attached.

Squirrel22 had worked with Jordan privately before buying: “A lot of what’s in there was stuff we did privately in our 1on1 sessions at a much higher price…this course is a steal. After working with him my bb/100 has gone from 2BB > 10BB.”

Jonathan had been playing over a decade without studying: “I played break-even to semi-losing until I put in the work. I purchased Simple Poker Systems, started to learn ranges per position. Within 1 week, I became 3rd in a large field MTT, a performance I had NEVER achieved in my life, by simply following the instructions in Simple Poker Systems.”

jerry1987 had tried most of the market first: “I’ve done a lot of study material and coaching from pads’ course, bencb, gto lab, etc etc and a few private coaches. Most of them provide some good ideas here and there but at least for me, I didn’t see significant changes in my play… My winrate has increased a lot and I have way more clarity about how things work rather than just memorization and having it all fall apart.”

jakobueno put the before-and-after most bluntly: “I’ve been playing poker for a long time, but after finishing the course now it feels like I was just randomly clicking buttons before.”

gertdeboo plays micros and used four words: “Love Simple Poker Systems (essential).”