Lichtenberger launches new collaborative study platform Octopi Poker

Octopi Poker, the brainchild of Andrew Lichtenberger, Nick Schulman, Victoria Livschitz and others, is now live. It offers a new way of studying and collaborating, and it’s hoping to build and continue developing the most advanced holistic suite of tools to enable both existing pros and newcomers to master poker as quickly as possible. 

Octopis has three pricing tiers, with the first offering a ‘free forever’ membership that gives you access to the Octopi Poker community and some of the more basic tools to get you started. You also get access to a coaching marketplace, where you can find help from players such as Lichtenberger himself, Maria Ho, Brock Wilson, Dylan Linde and many others, along with specific training courses.

The top, or Professional tier, is $50 a month, or $450 for a year, and includes the full range of game theory tools for collaborative study and access to The Vault, a searchable collection of streamed hands from PokerGO, with links to video and analysis from the Octopi Poker crew. At Pro level, you can also become a coach on the Octopi Poker forum.

Lichtenberger’s vision for Octopi is to help players of all levels. “I’m fully committed to building Octopi out to be helpful for players of all skill levels, and while this is admittedly not a trivial task, there’s nothing I can see as more valuable for the community at large,” Lichtenberger told us shortly after launch. “Helping many people find more clarity in their lives using poker, which has given me so much, as a vehicle is a challenge that speaks to me with the same level of intrigue that embarking on playing professionally almost 17 years ago did.” 

Octopi hasn’t been built with a traditional student/teacher model in mind. Collaboration and community are at its heart, and Lichtenberger points out, “I’m still learning at such a rapid pace I can barely recognize who I was a month ago, let alone a year ago.”

Octopi Poker brings together established pros like Lichtenberger and Schulman, and tech experts from the likes of Twitter, Google and Microsoft

It’s a sentiment that’s echoed by co-founder and fellow pro Nick Schulman, who told us: “We’ve never lost sight of building something that truly matches everything we want to use ourselves for learning more about poker and helping to showcase its history. Our team and advisors are all people I have a lot of love for, and it’s great to have a big group to break bread with, enjoy poker study actively or passively, and share the excitement of where this will take us in the future.”

We’re going to do a deeper dive into Octopi Poker in the near future, but for now, you can sign up for free, take a look yourself, and check out the introduction from Lichtenberger below.