What happens at a Pokercode boot camp - and why Velden 2026 is nearly sold out

A Pokercode boot camp isn't a seminar. It's six days in one room with the coaches and players who actually crush the biggest live fields in the world - and a casino floor downstairs to put the work straight into practice. The last few camps turned into WSOP Circuit rings and five-figure scores for the people who showed up. The next one runs July 20-25, 2026 at Casino Velden in Austria. As of now, there are 7 seats left.

If you've followed Pokercode but never been to a live poker boot camp, here's what the experience actually looks like - what gets taught, who's in the room, and why the people who go tend to come home with results. Then the full Velden 2026 schedule, day by day.

6 days live at the felt · 3 coaches in your corner · 7 seats left

What a Pokercode boot camp actually is

Online study gives you the theory. A boot camp gives you the room. For six days you study high-stakes strategy in small-group sessions, review hands with coaches who play these spots for millions, and then take the elevator down to a live tournament and run it back at the tables. No commute, no distractions - just deliberate work, surrounded by people doing the same thing.

That format produces results because the room raises everyone's level. The same model built the Grindhouse program, Pokercode's intensive live training editions, which have produced over $45 million in combined live earnings across three cohorts. Boot camps are that engine in a six-day sprint - and two of the coaches teaching Velden 2026 came up through Grindhouse themselves.

The proof: what past camps turned into

This isn't theory. Players who attended recent Pokercode camps cashed - and won - at the events attached to them:

• Luka Bojovic won a WSOP Circuit ring in Marrakesh at the Pokercode Bootcamp - the same Luka who went on to become the first Pokercode member to reach a WSOP Main Event final table (5th place, 2025).
• Nebo Ankucic took down the €2,200 PLO event for €42,000 at a Velden Boot Camp.
• Mantas Liachauskas - the "Champagne Baby" himself and 2025 European Champion - has banked multiple Velden scores, including a €1,100 Mystery Bounty title and a 3rd in the €5,000 High Roller (€52,700).
• Fabian Bartuschk added another WSOP Circuit ring in the Marrakesh PLO at a Pokercode camp - one of three rings in his collection.

You don't level up from watching alone. You level up in a room full of players who are better than you, with coaches who'll tell you exactly what you got wrong - then send you downstairs to fix it live.

The Velden 2026 schedule - 6 days live at the felt

Here's the full week. Three coaches, each teaching the part of the game they're known for, building from postflop tournament theory through final-table play and into exploitative counter-strategy.

• Mon 20.07 - Welcome meeting. Kick-off · meet the room.
• Tue 21.07 - Effects of risk premium on postflop strategies in tournaments. Greg Kozieja · passive lines.
• Wed 22.07 - Effects of risk premium on postflop strategies in tournaments. Greg Kozieja · aggressive lines.
• Thu 23.07 - In-depth high-stakes final table review. Fabi Niederreiter.
• Fri 24.07 - Beyond GTO: reading into lines and sizes. Matthias Eibinger.
• Sat 25.07 - Constructing the perfect counter-strategy. Matthias Eibinger.

The coaches in your corner

Matthias Eibinger closes the week. The Pokercode co-founder is Austria's number one player on the all-time money list, with 7 Triton Super High Roller titles and a WSOP bracelet (the $75,000 PLO at WSOP Paradise 2025). His two days - "Beyond GTO" and "Constructing the perfect counter-strategy" - are about what happens after you've learned the solver: reading real opponents and building lines that beat them, not just lines that don't lose.

Fabi Niederreiter runs the high-stakes final table review on Thursday. A Grindhouse 3 graduate and part of Fedor Holz's #s00n circle, Fabi finished 3rd in the $10,000 event at WSOP Paradise for $450,000+. He's lived the exact climb most people in the room are on - which is why his final-table breakdowns land.

Greg Kozieja opens the strategy block with two days on risk premium and postflop play in tournaments. Greg's story is the one to pay attention to: he started as a Pokercode community member, worked through Grindhouse 3, became a coach, won a €474,000 Eureka title, and made his Triton debut at Triton Jeju in 2026. Member to coach to Triton stage - in the room teaching you.

Two of your three coaches at Velden started exactly where you are - as Pokercode members. Greg and Fabi came up through Grindhouse. That's the whole point of the room.

Why Velden, and why now

Casino Velden sits on a lake in southern Austria and hosts one of the most popular stops on the European live calendar - a real festival with real fields, not a closed practice room. You study by day and play actual tournaments with actual money on the line, with your coaches a table away. It's the closest thing there is to apprenticing under high-stakes pros while you compete.

The catch is space. A boot camp only works because the group stays small - which is why this one caps out fast. There are 7 seats left as of publication, and registration is closing soon. If you've been waiting for the right moment to study live with this caliber of coach, this is it.

What you'll walk away with

• Six days of high-stakes tournament strategy - risk premium and postflop play, final-table decisions, and exploitative counter-strategy, taught in sequence.
• Direct access to three elite coaches - Matthias Eibinger, Fabi Niederreiter and Greg Kozieja, in a small-group setting, not a stream.
• Live reps that count - play the Casino Velden festival between sessions and apply what you learned the same day.
• The room. The peer group and connections that turn a good player into a serious one - the same environment that produced rings, titles and final tables at past camps.

Boot camps are where Pokercode members stop studying alone and start playing alongside the people they've been watching. If you're serious about moving up, Velden is where you start - and the next one is the only one on the calendar with seats still open.

Claim one of the last 7 seats at Velden

Velden Boot Camp 2026 · July 20-25 · Casino Velden, Austria. Six days live at the felt with Matthias Eibinger, Fabi Niederreiter and Greg Kozieja. Registration closing soon.

Claim your seat at pokercode.com/trips · or join Pokercode to start studying with the coaches today.