Upswing Poker Lab 2.0: Crushing Low Stakes is the most direct path from micro stakes to a winning 200NL game ever released in the Upswing Poker catalog. Released in March 2026, coach Uri Peleg builds his entire curriculum around one powerful principle: match your pot size to your hand strength. From there, everything clicks.
No solver. No range charts. No theory overload. Just 18 live-session lessons played across seven stake levels — from 2NL to 200NL — with every decision explained in real time. By Lesson 3, you’re playing the same hands Uri plays. By Lesson 18, you’re thinking about the game the way winning players think about it.
The 3-Rule System Behind Every Win
Most players fail at low stakes not from lack of knowledge — but from applying the wrong kind. Uri’s framework cuts through the noise with three rules purpose-built for maximum ROI at micro and low stakes:
Rule 1 — Match Pot Size to Hand Strength
The single most profitable adjustment you can make at 2NL–50NL. Mismatching bet size to hand strength costs the average micro-stakes player 3–5 BB/100 before a single bluff is counted. This rule closes that gap permanently and becomes the backbone of everything else you do at the table.
Rule 2 — Overplay Your Good Hands
Against the passive, over-folding fields that populate stakes from 2NL to 50NL, balance is a liability. Extracting maximum value from your strong hands is more important than being unexploitable. Uri shows exactly which hands qualify as “overplay” candidates and how to build the pot before opponents recognize the threat.
Rule 3 — No Bluff Catching
Bluff-catching at micro stakes is a high-variance leak with a poor expected value against a field that simply doesn’t bluff enough. Removing it from your default strategy tightens your win rate, flattens your variance, and eliminates one of the most expensive mental-game traps in the game.
Course Breakdown — Stake by Stake
Every lesson is a live, multi-table session with Uri narrating decisions as they happen. This is not edited highlight footage — it’s the real grind, including coolers, variance stretches, and borderline spots, all dissected in real time. Browse the full Upswing Poker courses library for more context on where this fits in the curriculum.
Module 1 · Foundation at 2NL — Lessons 1–6
- Lesson 01: 3 Simple Rules to Beat Micro Stakes — Starting at 2NL
- Lesson 02:Â Overplaying Your Good Hands at 2NL
- Lesson 03:Â Uri Plays More 2NL Following the Rules
- Lesson 04:Â Results, Stats and Variance at 2NL
- Lesson 05: Rule 3 — No Bluff Catching at 2NL
- Lesson 06: Wrapping Up NL2 — What Your Win Rate Actually Tells You
Module 2 · Moving Up — 5NL & 10NL — Lessons 7–10
- Lesson 07:Â Uri Moves Up to 5NL
- Lesson 08:Â Overplaying in Action at 5NL
- Lesson 09:Â How Folding Builds Your Win Rate at 10NL
- Lesson 10:Â Simple Automatic Decisions Playing 10NL
Module 3 · Mid Stakes Breakthrough — 25NL & 50NL — Lessons 11–15
- Lesson 11: Reading Opponent Sizing at NL25 — Bluff Time
- Lesson 12: Putting It Together — Navigation Plus Sizing Reads at 25NL
- Lesson 13: Low Stakes 50NL — What Changes and What Stays the Same
- Lesson 14: 50NL Strategy with Uri Peleg — Part 2
- Lesson 15: 50NL Part 3 — How to Plan a Hand
Module 4 · Advanced Territory — 100NL & 200NL — Lessons 16–18
- Lesson 16: 100NL Part 1 — Moving Up with Some Advanced Strategy
- Lesson 17:Â Uri Applying the Good Card / Bad Card Rule at 100NL
- Lesson 18: Curiosity Over Attachment — The Mindset That Beats NL200
