Nuno Alvarez Poker Coach — HUNL Specialist, 179 Videos, 11 Packs
Run It Once Elite coach since 2016 · Heads-up No-Limit specialist · Author of Expanding Your Range · Known online as ColorDeFlop and CheckRais3r
If you have ever wanted to understand a legendary heads-up match rather than just watch it, Nuno Alvarez is the coach who breaks them down. His catalog reads like a museum of high-stakes HUNL: Linus vs Stefan, LLinusLLove vs BERRI SWEET, LLinusLLove vs Trueteller, OtB_RedBaron vs LLinusLLove, and the $1 million Trueteller vs Kayhan Mokri match that culminated in a single $539,000 pot.
Across our Run It Once catalog he has produced 179 training videos spread over 11 separate products — the joint-widest spread of any coach in the library alongside Phil Galfond. This page maps all of it. Every product carries a FOREVER LICENSE — one payment, lifetime access, no subscription.
Why 6-max players should care about a heads-up coach
Heads-up forces you to play wide ranges on every street with nowhere to hide. There is no “someone else will act behind me,” no folding into position, no waiting for a better spot. That is why studying HUNL sharpens blind-vs-blind, 3-bet pots and river decisions across every format — and why Alvarez built an entire mini-course aimed specifically at 6-max grinders who never intend to play heads-up full time.
Who Is Nuno Alvarez?
Alvarez started playing at sixteen, around 2009, after his father taught him five-card draw. He joined Run It Once as a coach and returned to the Elite roster in 2019 specializing exclusively in HUNL content, having climbed stakes in the intervening years through heavy solver study. He plays primarily on PokerStars and is known online as ColorDeFlop and CheckRais3r.
Alongside Antonio Miranda, he also built the original Heads Up Academy group-coaching project — a structured HUNL curriculum built on three years of dedicated PIOSolver work covering ranges, sizings and simplifications. That project is the origin of the Heads Up Academy recordings available on this site.
🎓 Expanding Your Range — His Own Mini-Course
9 episodes · approximately 2 hours 21 minutes · built for 6-max players
Expanding Your Range is Alvarez’s structured answer to the steepest learning curve in poker. Rather than assuming you want to become a heads-up specialist, it is designed for players coming from a 6-max background who want to hold the lobby, start tables, and stop declining heads-up matches.
Covered across preflop, flop, turn and river: the Range Bet Fallacy (why simplified range-betting collapses heads-up), blockers and unblockers, where real EV actually comes from, value and bluffing thresholds against wide ranges, and how to find non-natural bluffs.
📊 Nuno Alvarez’s Full Catalog Footprint
| Run It Once Pack | Videos | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| ESSENTIAL HOLDEM 2012-2022 | 39 | HUNL fundamentals |
| ELITE HOLDEM 2012-2020 | 35 | Legendary HU matches |
| Elite Holdem 2021 | 26 | HUNL |
| Elite Holdem 2023 | 21 | HUNL + GTOW AI |
| Elite NLHE 2022 | 18 | Linus vs Stefan, BERRI SWEET |
| Elite Heads Up 2024 | 16 | HUNL |
| Elite Holdem 2024 | 16 | HUNL |
| Elite MTT 2024 | 4 | MTT |
| ESSENTIAL MTT 2012-2022 | 2 | MTT |
| Elite MTT 2023 | 1 | Humans vs Algorithms |
| Elite PLO 2023 | 1 | PLO |
| TOTAL | 179 | 11 packs |
🔥 The Legendary Matches He Breaks Down
This is the part of his catalog you cannot get anywhere else. These are real, documented high-stakes matches — analysed hand by hand by a coach who plays the format:
🎯 $200/$400 Linus vs Stefan (2 parts) — two HUNL greats with completely different styles, and how each approach matches up against the other. Inside Elite NLHE 2022
🎯 LLinusLLove vs BERRI SWEET — a full deep dive, plus an ultra-deep-stack breakdown of BERRI SWEET vs TrueTeller
🎯 LLinusLLove vs Trueteller and a redux session — inside Elite Holdem 2012-2020
🎯 LLinusLLove vs OtB_RedBaron and $200/$400 Limitless vs LLinusLLove (plus a redux and a biggest-hands breakdown)
🎯 $10K HUNL: Watching the Best in the Business — and his own $50/$100 HUNL session against LLinusLLove
🎯 Heads Up Challenge: Human vs Machine and a 3-bet-pots edition — plus the 4-part “Pillars of HUNL” series and Uncommon HUNL Concepts in single-raised pots, IP and OOP
Which Alvarez Product Should You Buy?
You play 6-max and want to add heads-up: Expanding Your Range. It was built for exactly this and runs under two and a half hours.
You want the legendary match breakdowns: Elite Holdem 2012-2020 (35 videos) and Elite NLHE 2022 (18 videos, including Linus vs Stefan) hold most of them.
You want a full structured HUNL curriculum: the Heads Up Academy recordings come from the project he co-built with Antonio Miranda — six sessions covering preflop through 4-bet pots, plus range charts.
Comparing your options? Read our Best Heads-Up Poker Courses in 2026 breakdown, which weighs Alvarez’s material against Kevin Rabichow’s and the rest of the field.
179 Videos. Every Legendary HUNL Match, Explained.
FOREVER LICENSE — one payment, lifetime access, no subscription.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is heads-up training useful if I only play 6-max?
That is the exact premise of Alvarez’s Expanding Your Range course. Heads-up forces wide ranges on every street with no players behind you, which sharpens blind-vs-blind play, 3-bet pots and river decisions in any format. You do not need to become a heads-up specialist to benefit.
Who made the Run It Once Heads Up Academy?
Nuno Alvarez built it together with fellow Run It Once coach Antonio Miranda, originally as a small-group coaching project based on three years of dedicated PIOSolver work on heads-up no-limit ranges and sizings.
What are Nuno Alvarez’s online screen names?
He is known as ColorDeFlop on Run It Once and plays primarily on PokerStars as CheckRais3r.
Which pack has the most Nuno Alvarez content?
Essential Holdem 2012-2022 with 39 videos, followed closely by Elite Holdem 2012-2020 with 35 — the latter contains most of the legendary match breakdowns.
🔥 Explore Other Coaches
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