Kevin Rabichow has over $2.5 million in live tournament winnings, and millions more in cash-game winnings from years of playing high stakes online. Rabichow is also a coach at Run It Once poker practice, which is due to release his new track, The Game Plan, in September.
Card Player TV met the 32-year-old professional poker player while in the semi-finals of 2022 World Series of Poker A $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em event discussing a hand that saw him dump 10-times winner Phil Ivey from the bracelet in round 16. The hand ended up with Ivey in the tank for about seven minutes while facing a call for his life in the tournament. Rabicho had lifted everything with his high flow that turned into a king, with four to straight on Q
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“I think anything straight is a tough place,” Rabeshaw said when asked what Ivy should consider calling him. “I think it’s clear to him I’m flush, maybe K-10 for the thinnest hand I might have. Sure, straight like a bluff. I think he’d bet weaker, I think he’d bet a couple for value, but I don’t think he’d really consider calling a couple.” So my guess, inside the game, he was thinking about calling 10, maybe K-10, and just realized it was a disgusting place. I think he should call those two hands sometimes, but only because it all makes sense as he usually doesn’t have a hand Good, I can have all great hands. I can also cheat this way, I have a lot of weak hands to fool with, so it’s just a tricky spot.”
In our interview with Rabishaw, he shares insight into his decisions throughout the hand, including a discussion on the aforementioned triple bet with the appropriate KJ in heads up, pair checking and draw on flop, and factors that influenced his decision to use a small bet size on turn after Make the second nuts.
Check out the full video interview below:
