PokerDealer
Online dealer training & certification

Learn to deal poker. Properly.

Every skill a casino tests — the pitch, the shuffle, side pots, TDA rulings and the floor — trained interactively and priced once. Prepare for the audition, get certified, and step into the box.

Start free with the full interactive reference. Certification from $149, one-time — no subscription.

The Dealer's Wheelhouse
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The free reference: 64 sections, four tiers — the deal in 3D, live drills, TDA rulings.

64 interactive sections the pitch, shuffle & deal in 3D a working rulings simulator physical certificate on Career one-time pricing

How you learn it

Four ways to master the box

Dealing isn't a lecture — it's a craft you see, drill and practise. The Wheelhouse teaches every skill in the way that actually makes it stick.

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See the mechanics

The pitch, the deal, chip handling and the muck — rendered on a 3D table you can orbit, slow down and study from the dealer's eye.

3D TABLE
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Drill what gets you hired

A pot-limit calculator, a live side-pot builder, and a hand-reading speed drill scored against a real evaluator. The audition skills, practised.

INTERACTIVE DRILLS
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Follow the procedure

Shuffles, colour-ups, the chip race and calling the floor — walked step by step, the house way, the same every time.

PROCEDURE RAILS

Make the ruling

The rulings simulator throws real edge cases at you — exposed cards, out-of-turn action, all-in confusion — and teaches the correct call.

RULINGS SIMULATOR

Start free

The whole reference is free to explore

No sign-up wall on the learning. All 64 sections — every tier — are open right now. See exactly how good the training is before you spend a cent, then certify when you're ready to prove it.

  • The complete Dealer's Wheelhouse — Foundation through Career
  • Every 3D clip, every drill, the full rulings simulator
  • The dealer's lexicon and the honest guide to licensing
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64sections, all free
4tiers of skill
1rulings simulator

The certification

Four tiers, one-time each

Certify at the level you need — each tier builds on the last, and every upgrade only pays the difference. The Career tier ships a real, mailed certificate and a listing in the dealer directory.

Tier 1
Foundation
$149

The box and Texas Hold'em — the pitch, the shuffle, the deal, the muck. Digital certificate.

Tier 2
Professional
$349

Every variant and the math — Omaha, Stud, side pots, pot-limit, the speed drills. Digital certificate.

Tier 3
Tournament
$599

The tournament floor and the TDA rulebook — the chip race, penalties, the rulings simulator. Digital certificate.

Physical cert
Tier 4
Career
$999

Game protection, the audition, licensing and the floor path — plus a mailed certificate and a dealer-directory listing.

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A real career

Dealing is the door to an industry

Poker dealers are in demand, and the craft is a ladder. It starts in the box and climbs as far as you'll take it — cardroom to casino, the travelling circuit, and into the floor and management.

PokerDealer trains the skills and prepares you for the two gates every dealer faces: the live casino audition and your jurisdiction's licensing.

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Base paymin. wage +
Tokes (tips) — the real incomethe difference
Casino auditionprepared here
Licensing & background checkmapped here
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Why dealers choose it

Trained right, not just watched

The in-person schools charge thousands and lock you to a city. This is the same craft — interactive, at your pace, priced once.

"The hand-reading drill is the thing. It's timed, it's scored, and it's exactly what they put in front of me at the audition. I walked in ready."

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Marcus R.New floor dealer

"I finally understand side pots — not memorised, actually understood. Editing the stacks and watching the pots build made it click in an afternoon."

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Sara T.Home-game to cardroom

"The rulings simulator is worth the price on its own. I've made calls at the table I'd only ever seen in that tool. It builds real judgement."

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Danny K.Tournament dealer

Illustrative of the learner experience.

Straight answers

Questions, answered honestly

Is this an actual gaming licence?
No — and no online course can be. PokerDealer trains you to a professional standard and prepares you to pass a casino's live audition and to navigate your jurisdiction's licensing and background check. The licence itself comes from your gaming regulator. We're explicit about exactly what the certificate is and isn't.
Do I need any experience?
None. Foundation starts with what a dealer is and builds every mechanic from the grip up. If you've never touched a deck professionally, you start at pd-01 and go from there.
What's actually free?
The entire interactive reference — all 64 sections across all four tiers — is free to explore, including the 3D clips, the drills and the rulings simulator. You pay only when you want the certification and the credential that proves your training.
Is it a subscription?
No. Every tier is a one-time payment for lifetime access — no monthly fees, no trials. Upgrading a tier only pays the difference.
What makes the Career tier different?
Beyond the digital certificate, the Career tier ($999) ships a real, physical certificate by mail and lists you in the PokerDealer dealer directory — the credential and the visibility a working dealer wants.
Are you affiliated with the WSOP or the TDA?
No. We teach the Tournament Directors Association rules because they're the industry standard, not because we're connected to them — and we say so plainly throughout.

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