Kevin Rabichow Poker Coach — The Heads-Up Specialist’s Complete Library

$4.6M+ live earnings · Beat Phil Ivey at the WSOP · 2 standalone courses + 201 videos across 9 packs at ElitePokerGuide.io

There is a specific kind of poker player who ends up searching for Kevin Rabichow by name: someone who has hit a ceiling, knows their study process is the problem, and wants a coach who teaches thinking rather than memorisation. Rabichow has spent over a decade building exactly that reputation — and across our Run It Once catalog he has left 201 individual training videos spread across 9 products, with a heavy concentration in heads-up No-Limit Hold’em.

This page maps every one of them, plus both of his standalone courses. Every product carries a FOREVER LICENSE — one payment, lifetime access, no subscription.

The credential most coaches cannot claim

At the 2022 World Series of Poker $25,000 heads-up event, Rabichow eliminated ten-time bracelet winner Phil Ivey in the round of 16 and ran to the semi-finals. His heads-up teaching is not theoretical — it is the same game he took to Ivey at the highest buy-in the format offers.

Who Is Kevin Rabichow?

Rabichow has played professionally since 2007, making his name in online heads-up cash games, where he has stated he earned over $1 million in profit. He joined Run It Once as a coach in 2014 and has produced content there almost continuously since.

His track record as a teacher is unusually well documented: from 2015 to 2017 he staked and coached a small group of heads-up players from the $50 and $100 buy-in level to more than $500,000 in collective earnings. That is the rarest thing in poker education — a coach with a measurable record of other people’s results, not just their own.

He later moved into the live high-roller circuit. His career-best result came at the 2021 WSOP $100,000 High Roller, where he finished runner-up for $1,210,487, and his total live tournament earnings now stand at over $4.6 million.

📊 Kevin Rabichow’s Full Footprint in Our Catalog

Counted directly from the file index of each pack:

Product	Rabichow videos	Focus
Run It Once ELITE HOLDEM 2012-2020	136	HUNL cash
Run It Once Elite MTT 2021	14	MTT + HUNL
Run It Once Elite Holdem 2023	12	NLHE
Run It Once ELITE MTT 2012-2020	12	MTT
Run It Once Elite MTT 2022	10	MTT + WSOP HUNL
Run It Once Elite NLHE 2022	7	NLHE + WSOP HUNL
Run It Once Elite Holdem 2021	6	NLHE
Run It Once MIXED Content 2013-2025	3	Stud / mixed
Run It Once OTHER OMAHA 2013-2025	1	Omaha variants
TOTAL	201	9 products

The distribution tells you something useful: 68% of his output sits in one product. If Rabichow is the coach you came for, Elite Holdem 2012-2020 is the single highest-value purchase on this site for you.

🎓 His Two Standalone Courses

Two products on this site are Rabichow’s own courses rather than pack contributions. They solve completely different problems — one is about process, the other is pure watch-him-play.

The Study System

🧠 The Game Plan

Released in September 2022 after nearly a decade as a Run It Once coach, The Game Plan is Rabichow’s answer to the gap between knowing theory and actually converting it into results. Its subject is not a specific spot — it is how to study: how to break the game tree into pieces small enough to evaluate honestly, find your real weaknesses, and build a process that compounds.

If you have bought courses before and not improved, this is the one that addresses why.

View The Game Plan →

Watch Him Play

🎥 Barewire — Play And Explain

6+ hours · 1.8 GB · pure heads-up session footage

The opposite approach to The Game Plan: no framework, no theory module — just Rabichow narrating his own decisions in real time across $3/$6, $5/$10 Zoom and $10/$20 heads-up NLHE, against named opponents including JABOOOOO and muumipoiss. You hear the read forming, the adjustment being made, and why.

This is the cheapest genuine entry point into his material on the entire site — and the fastest way to find out whether his thinking style suits you before committing to a bigger purchase.

View Barewire →

Which one first? If you have never studied Rabichow before, start with Barewire — it is short, cheap, and shows you exactly how he thinks. If you already know you like his approach and want the system behind it, go straight to The Game Plan. If you want volume, Elite Holdem 2012-2020 holds 136 of his videos.

🔥 The Rabichow Sessions Worth Buying For

🎯 $10K WSOP HUNL vs Renan Carlos — reviewed at two separate stack depths (25-40BB and 30-50BB), inside Elite MTT 2022 and Elite NLHE 2022

🎯 “Kevin vs Doug Polk: All of Our 4-Bet Pots” — every 4-bet pot from a match against one of the most famous heads-up players alive, indexed in the Holdem Learning Path

🎯 History of Heads Up NLHE — a 4-part series tracing how the format actually evolved; two separate coaches picked part 1 among their all-time favorites in PRO PICKS

🎯 $2,500 WSOP Online vs Patrick Leonard — a heads-up battle at near-identical 50BB stacks, plus the deep run that led there

🎯 Learning From Bots — analysing a match between two of the most advanced HUNL bots to extract what humans can actually use

🎯 Legends Showdown vs Bjorn Li and Makeboifin — plus the preparation video on what makes a good strategy going in

Is Rabichow The Right Coach For You?

Yes, if: you play heads-up or short-handed NLHE, you already understand the basics, and your bottleneck is turning study time into actual improvement. His strength is teaching process and structure — several of his students describe database reviews where he identified frequency leaks they did not know existed.

Probably not, if: you are a complete beginner looking for starting-hand charts, or you play exclusively PLO. For fundamentals start with Phil Galfond’s Foundations; for PLO see Phil Galfond’s coach page.

Also worth comparing: if heads-up is your target format, read our Best Heads-Up Poker Courses in 2026 breakdown, which weighs Rabichow’s material against the Heads Up Academy and other options.

2 Courses. 201 Videos. 136 Of Them In One Pack.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which Kevin Rabichow course should I buy first?

Barewire — Play And Explain is the cheapest way in: 6+ hours of him narrating real heads-up sessions, enough to know if his style suits you. If it does, The Game Plan is his structured system on how to study effectively. For raw volume, Elite Holdem 2012-2020 contains 136 of his 201 videos.

Did Kevin Rabichow really beat Phil Ivey?

Yes. At the 2022 WSOP $25,000 heads-up no-limit event he eliminated Ivey — a ten-time bracelet winner — in the round of 16, and went on to reach the semi-finals.

How much has Kevin Rabichow won?

His live tournament earnings stand at over $4.6 million, with a career-best runner-up finish in the 2021 WSOP $100,000 High Roller for $1,210,487. He has also stated over $1 million in profit from online heads-up cash games.

Is his heads-up material still useful for 6-max players?

Heads-up study is widely used to sharpen short-handed play, because it forces you to play wide ranges on every street with no other players to hide behind. His Elite Holdem videos also include plenty of 6-max and $25/$50 full-table content, not only HU.

Explore More Coaches

See also Phil Galfond (543 videos, PLO legend and Run It Once founder), Lucas Greenwood (222 videos, high-roller MTT), and Peter Clarke (Carrot Corner founder).

Or browse the full Run It Once catalog (57 products, 13,752 files, 3.2 TB), the Run It Once brand hub, and the Cash Poker Courses category. Want everything in one order? The Run It Once Mega Bundle includes all 201 Rabichow videos. Current discounts live on the coupons page.