Kevin Rabichow

Having investigated big flop bets in the previous installment, Kevin discusses massive turn and river overbets from the bot battle between Slumbot and RuseAI. He focuses on the concepts we can pick up for our own game from observing these wild lines.

Kevin Rabichow continues to examine the game tape of the two bots battling it out and seeks to gather information regarding the bet sizing that the bots are using and what can be taken away from this.

Kevin Rabichow continues to breakdown the hands from the bots offering insights that can be implemented into your game in meaningful ways without the computing power that they have available.

Kevin Rabichow launches a new series that aims to derive valuable insights from a match between two of the most advanced bots for heads-up NL. He starts with a database review of the essential areas to understand where the bots differ in building their strategy.

Kevin Rabichow takes on Patrick Leonard in this epic HU battle beginning with both players holding near identical 50BB stacks.

Kevin Rabichow holds the bottom stack with just four players remaining and finds himself in a difficult spot with Patrick Leonard holding the big stack and seeks to work his way up the payment ladder.

Kevin Rabichow looks back on his performance in the high stakes WSOP online battle starting the final table as the short stack but finding his way to a HU battle.

Here we introduce many of the study methods that are available to us as poker players and offer a brief overview of the benefits and disadvantages of each.

With your self-evaluation completed, Kevin offers the next step in the process which turns the findings into actionable skills and methods to improve upon your weaknesses and maintain your strengths.

The course begins with a critical exercise that is mandatory for getting better at poker which is to conduct an honest assessment of your strengths and weaknesses as a player.

The importance of finding a likeminded group of friends is critical for success and Kevin discusses why it was important to establish the Discord group that accompanies this course.

Training videos are an area of studying that Kevin is extremely familiar with having created hundreds of them throughout his career and here he discusses the benefits of utilizing this study method.

It's been checked through to the river and we direct our focus to how weak our hand needs to be to bluff and how strong it needs to be to value bet.

Kevin looks at river probes when out of position in the common line of the big blind check-calling the flop and seeing the turn check through focusing on how the previous streets are vitally important to our river decision and range construction.

Having arrived on the turn when out of position, Kevin first explores the gametree and how it impacts the way we arrive to the turn and how few players are able to remain balanced in this scenario before jumping into a Lucid GTO session to test himself against the solver.

Kevin kicks off the installment with the notes that he took on Fedor during the Legends Showdown and discusses how these notes translated to decisions within the match before diving into general principles of exploitation.

Hiring a private coach is a big decision for many seeking to improve as a player and Kevin discusses what to look for in a coach and how to get the most out of your coaching sessions.

Kevin introduces concepts surrounding 4bet pots and utilizes Poker Scientist to establish principles and general strategies for these key situations in big pots.

The data showed that Kevin's frequency of turn Cbets was lower than it should be and here he designs a training session to help get this number where it needs to be.

With the theory established in the previous installment, Kevin loads up a number of real hands with this line and seeks to determine if he has any leaks on this node that can be fixed.

Kevin filters for hands where he had a river Cbet opportunity and seeks to determine if he's playing too passively in these relatively uncommon scenarios.

Often a key to building your own strategy is to understand the counterstrategy and Kevin explores the node of facing a flop float bet in order to strengthen his flop Cbet strategy.

Playing out of position on the turn is a notoriously difficult part of the game tree and Kevin outlines how to construct your range as a function of flop bet sizing and turn texture

It's a simple node but worthy of study and Kevin rips through some hands to determine if his instincts match the solver's approach.

Kevin utilizes the assistance of Poker Scientist to come up with an aggregated report of various flop textures that helps him bundle his flop Cbet ranges into appropriate categories and simplify his approach

We arrive to the river out of position and are forced to decide whether to bet or check based on the information from the previous two streets.

In this installment the focus turns towards the actual skills that you're studying both from the perspective of evaluating your own abilities and execution as well as what skills need improvement.

The filter is set to hands offering the opportunity for Kevin to stab river and he works his way through them to examine whether his approach matches up with the solver's ideal.

This time we see a 3-bet pot and Kevin attempts to determine the best course of action both when our opponent opts for a Cbet and the times they don't.

We've arrived to the turn in a single-raised pot when in position and faced with the dilemma of betting or checking and Kevin offers advice for putting hands into various classifications to simplify his approach.