The Octopi Poker learning platform recently made a major announcement: Thomas Boivin will be the head of content and head of its Octopi Academy. He joins a team of professionals that already includes Stephen Chidwick, Victoria Livschitz, Max Gorbunov, and Johan Schultz-Pedersen.
Thomas himself shared the news in a video: “I just joined the team that’s going to reinvent how poker is learned. Yes everybody, I just joined Octopi Poker as their content leader but also academy leader. The academy is the brand new branch of Octopi Poker where the revolution of learning poker is going to happen: gamification, leaderboards, quizzes, trainers, drills and much more. It’s going to be a holistic system and the team is spectacular, with the GOAT Stephen Chidwick. So their tech, my coaching style and other brilliant coaches all together is gonna create the holistic learning system. To celebrate this I have designed a course that we are going to release in a few weeks. This course in one sentence is if I would have 15 lessons with you to make your game better as fast as I could. There’s gonna be interaction, drills, trainers, integration, community building and also giveaways. We are gonna give you gifts to celebrate this new launch, so please drop your e-mail in the link below and we will keep you in the loop with all the sexy details. See you on Octopi Poker and see you next month during the course.”
Big news… I’m officially joining @OctopiPoker! 🐙♠️
We’re building a new way to learn poker that’s structured, practical, interactive, and fun. 📚
To celebrate, my new course drops in a few weeks! 🚀
Hit the link for early access, giveaways, updates:https://t.co/TN7mDaFiQA pic.twitter.com/BmCom17HJ1
— Thomas Boivin (@martomchat) April 12, 2026
The course is named “Beyond the Solver: 15 Blueprints to Exploit Common Population Mistakes” and it’s a 3-week interactive course. If you are interested in Thomas’ course, the upcoming giveaways, exclusive content and staying informed about all the latest news from Octopi Poker, you should enter your e-mail address at this link: octopipoker.ai/boivin.
Thomas already had experience providing coaching to players with his French platform PurePoker and now everyone will be able to learn alongside him at Octopi Poker where he will seek to revolutionize the way of studying. His goal is to create a more holistic learning system and make studying poker feel more dynamic and rewarding. He wants to make poker study more effective, more engaging, and more enjoyable by combining clear instruction with interactive features like leaderboards, quizzes and drills. His teaching approach is best described as structured, straightforward, practical and applicable to real play. That’s why his new course can be used by players with varying levels of experience, from beginners to experienced players.
Thomas Boivin’s Poker Career
Boivin began his career in 2011 playing online sit & go tournaments while completing his engineering studies in Belgium. His specialty was 18-player sit & gos, where for a time he was ranked the best in the world, and he later moved on to 6-max and 6-max hyper turbo formats. In 2012, he earned his first live cashes, and in 2014, he achieved his first two cashes at the WSOP in Las Vegas. His first title came in 2016 when he won the $1K MSPT Main
Event in Las Vegas, which had 2,887 entries. For the victory, he took home his first trophy and a grand prize of $352K.
Thomas with his first trophy / Photo: MSPT.com
In 2017, Boivin became a champion again, winning a 6-max event at the Aussie Millions, where he took home $88,000. That year he came within a hair’s breadth of winning his first WSOP bracelet when he finished second in Event #43 Shootout $1.5K, settling for a prize of $159K. Days later, he finished third in Event #56 NLH $5K, earning $264K.
During 2018, he finished eighth in the MILLION$ Barcelona Main Event, winning $277K, and third in a Wynn Summer Classic event for $149K. He closed out the year by winning a $25K EPT Prague event, taking home $426K. By that time, he was already playing online tournaments, and during the pandemic, he finished second in a $3K WPT World Championship Online event, earning $388K. Starting in 2023, he began playing High Roller tournaments on the live circuit, and that year he finished second in the SHRPO’s $50K Super High Roller for $214K and second in the WPT World Championship’s $25K High Roller, winning $958K.
2025 was the best year of Boivin’s career with 32 cashes, 18 final tables, 2 runner-up finishes, and 2 titles, with winnings of $8.4M. During the WSOP, he achieved two podium finishes and two million-dollar prizes in just 4 days! First, he finished third in Event #38, the $100K High Roller, for $1.2M, and then he finished third again in Event #46, the $250K Super High Roller, for $2M. In December, he achieved his biggest live prize by finishing fifth in the WSOP Paradise’s $250K Triton Invitational, winning $2.2M.
He started 2026 well, winning the LHPO’s $25K High Roller for $310K and finishing third in the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open for $295K. His career earnings include nearly $4M online and $16.9M live, placing him first on Belgium’s All Time Money List having surpassed the legendary Davidi Kitai who held the top spot for over a decade. In his words: “I love to go from live to online and vice versa as they push me to evolve differently as a player.”
Thomas with the tenth trophy of his career / Photo: SHRPO.com
Octopi Poker
The idea arose in 2022 after a conversation between poker professionals and tech visionaries: Victoria Livschitz, Nick Schulman, Phil Shing, and Andrew Lichtenberger. They all agreed on the limitations of current study tools and were excited about the opportunities AI brought to the game. They felt it was time to reinvent how poker was studied, and thus Octopi Poker was born.
Johan Schultz-Pedersen known for his expertise in poker theory and high-quality simulations and Max Gorbunov, an exceptional engineer formerly at Google, joined the team. In 2024, Stephen Chidwick, second on the All Time Money List with $77 million in earnings and considered one of the best players in the world by his peers, joined the team as well.
The platform transformed how players analyze hands, train with AI-driven tools, and engage with a like-minded community and a unique blend of poker expertise and technical excellence. Octopi Poker continues to evolve and grow, and the addition of Thomas Boivin is a significant step forward, demonstrating their commitment to improving the gaming experience for their customers.
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