This week Jim Reid and the panel interview longtime pro player and coach Kevin Rabichow about his experiences as a high-stakes heads-up player — and how it’s led him to create his new training course at Run It Once called The Game Plan. Kevin gets right into his insights about adjusting from full-ring to short-handed play, some theoretical implications of only having two players in each hand, why postflop analysis is so important, how he takes notes and how to get the most out of them, good ways to practice shorthanded play, and we even have time to get into RecPoker’s Theme of the Month this month: 3-betting! It’s a great chat and there is some fun new developments at the end of the show that you’ll want to stick around for as well.
Kevin is active on Twitter as @krabichow and you can find out more about him and his course at these links:
Course: https://www.runitonce.com/courses/the-game-plan/
Coaching Website: https://www.kevinrabichow.com/
IG: https://instagram.com/krabichow
We also go over this week’s home game results and discuss these topics:
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Time Stamps
00:13 | Welcome & Introduction |
02:08 | Introduction to Kevin Rabichow |
02:18 | Kevin’s role in the world of poker |
03:53 | Inexperienced players’ challenges when moving to a certain style of game |
06:46 | Is post-flop skill even more premium than heads up? |
10:20 | The importance of one distinction in training |
13:43 | Kevin on what hands to limp or open with |
14:46 | Understanding whether to play balanced or not |
20:59 | Kevin: I’m a pretty big proponent of note-taking |
27:32 | Kevin talks about his course and teaching approach |
36:21 | Kevin’s thoughts on the approach to post-flop as the 3-bet aggressor |
45:19 | John: Home Game Result |