Hunter Cichy Poker Coach — Live Cash Specialist, 81 Videos, 8 Packs
Author of Advanced Concepts in No-Limit Hold’em · Founder of Check Shove Poker · Live cash and PLO specialist · Run It Once Elite coach
Almost every poker coach teaches online poker. Hunter Cichy has a video in our catalog literally titled “My Debut: Live Poker is my Specialty” — and he means it. His catalog is straddles, limps, bomb pots, deep stacks, bedazzled hoodies and $200/$400 games with Phil Hellmuth at the table. If you play in a casino rather than on a screen, there is almost nobody else in the Run It Once library built for you.
Across our catalog he has left 81 training videos across 8 products, split between live NLHE and live PLO. Every product carries a FOREVER LICENSE — one payment, lifetime access, no subscription.
The games he films in
His nosebleed footage inside Elite Holdem 2024 includes $200/$400/$800 with Phil Laak, Andrew Robl and Chino Rheem, a $200/$400/$800/$1,600/$3,200 game, a “No Gamble No Future” session with Phil Hellmuth, Jean-Robert Bellande and Airball, and $100/$100 with Brandon Adams, Matt Berkey and the 7-2 game running. This is the live high-stakes world that most players only ever see on a stream — with a coach narrating why the decisions are being made.
Who Is Hunter Cichy?
Cichy started playing while studying Paramedic Technology at Century College in Minnesota. By the time he finished the degree he was earning more from poker than from paramedicine, and he moved to Florida to play higher stakes. He founded Check Shove Poker as a coaching program, blog and YouTube channel, and began coaching one-on-one in 2014.
In 2017 he published Advanced Concepts in No-Limit Hold’em: A Modern Approach to Poker Analysis with D&B Poker — a book built around five pillars of poker theory (pot odds, implied odds, pot equity, fold equity and minimum defense frequency) and how they interact. It became a #1 Amazon New Release in poker.
That authorship matters for how you read his videos: he is a structured explainer by temperament, applying theory to the messiest environment in poker.
📊 Hunter Cichy’s Catalog Footprint
| Run It Once Pack | Videos | Headline content |
|---|---|---|
| Elite Holdem 2023 | 27 | BestBet live $5/$10/$25, node locking |
| Elite NLHE 2022 | 17 | $2/$5 to $25/$50 live, 5-part student review |
| Elite Holdem 2024 | 11 | Nosebleeds: Hellmuth, Robl, Laak, Berkey |
| Elite PLO 2024 | 10 | “How I Study PLO” series, bomb pots |
| Elite PLO 2023 | 8 | Live $10/$25 PLO, AAxx in SRPs |
| Elite PLO 2022 | 4 | Transitioning to PLO, two river sizes |
| Elite MTT 2022 | 2 | High stakes live MTT hands |
| Elite MTT 2024 | 2 | WSOP Circuit, BestBet Jacksonville |
| TOTAL | 81 | 8 packs |
Note the split: 59 NLHE videos and 22 PLO videos. He is one of very few coaches teaching live PLO specifically — including double-board bomb pots, a format spreading fast in casinos and almost entirely uncovered by online-focused training.
🔥 The Cichy Material Worth Buying For
🎯 The “No Gamble No Future” and $200/$400/$800 nosebleed sessions — Hellmuth, Bellande, Robl, Laak, Rheem, Airball, Berkey, Brandon Adams. Inside Elite Holdem 2024
🎯 “The Ultimate Guide to Multiway Flops” — the single most common live spot, and the one solvers handle worst
🎯 “Hyper Exploitative Ideas: Check-Raising, Donk Leads & Double Barrels” and “Exploitative 4-Betting and Squeezing” — his signature approach, also indexed in the Holdem Learning Path
🎯 A 5-part review of RIO member Johannes at $2/$5 — button straddle tips, fundamentals, and concluding lessons. Real student, real stakes
🎯 “How I Study PLO” (4 parts) and “Double Board PLO Bomb Pots” (3 parts plus a redux) — inside Elite PLO 2024
🎯 “Exotic Sims for Exotic Players” and “Unexploitable Simplifications” — solver work rebuilt for opponents who limp, straddle and donk
🎯 “Transitioning to PLO: Fish on Fish Violence” — an honest title, and a genuinely good entry point for Hold’em players moving across
Who Should Buy This
Live casino players: this is the page. Most training assumes an online pool with HUD data and no straddles. Cichy assumes the opposite. Elite Holdem 2023 holds 27 of his videos, nearly all live.
Live PLO players: Elite PLO 2024 and Elite PLO 2023 — bomb pots and live-specific PLO adjustments barely exist as teaching material anywhere else.
Online players moving to live: his exploitative framework is specifically about abandoning online defaults that cost you money in a casino. Compare with our live poker course comparison before deciding.
81 Videos From a Published Author Who Actually Plays Live
FOREVER LICENSE — one payment, lifetime access, no subscription.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who wrote Advanced Concepts in No-Limit Hold’em?
Hunter Cichy, published by D&B Poker in 2017. It is structured around five pillars — pot odds, implied odds, pot equity, fold equity and minimum defense frequency — and became a #1 Amazon New Release in poker.
Is Hunter Cichy’s training for live or online poker?
Overwhelmingly live. His catalog is built on casino cash games from $2/$5 up to $200/$400 nosebleeds, with a focus on straddles, limps, multiway pots and deep stacks — the conditions online training largely ignores.
Does he cover PLO as well as Hold’em?
Yes — 22 of his 81 videos are PLO, including a four-part “How I Study PLO” series and multiple videos on double-board bomb pots, a live format spreading fast in casinos with almost no other coverage available.
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