My name is Hunter Cichy. I'm a 24-year-old pro poker player, author, and gambling consultant based out of Fort Lauderdale, FL. Three years ago I launched a one-on-one coaching program through checkshovepoker.com. Since then, I've coached over 250 small to mid-stakes students over Skype. Follow Hunter Cichy and explore their bibliography from Amazon.com's Hunter Cichy Author Page. 12 C Chris Thomas. 14 G Kunle Ayinde. 15 G Josh Lindberg. 20 F Tanner Schumacher. 21 G Ryun Hobbs. 22 F Duke Anywanu. 23 F Cody Johnson. 24 G Tyler Fleek. 25 F T'Michael Cunnigan. 31 F Stefan Egbujor. Hunter Cichy Hunter Cichy attended Century College in White Bear Lake, MN and graduated with an AAS in Paramedic Technology. By the time finished his degree he was playing the largest cash games in the Midwest. Instead of pursuing a career in health care, he chose to move to South Florida to play bigger cash games and MTT’s. Hunter Cichy started playing poker when he was just 12 back in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, but his original goal was to work as a paramedic.

When you imagine a professional poker coach and the introduction of PokerSnowie to such an individual, you'd be forgiven for assuming that it might not be a pleasant affair! And yet, here we have Hunter Cichy, professional poker player, CEO of checkshovepoker.com and poker coach to boot, who not only recognizes the benefits of PokerSnowie, but has used it to enhance his coaching program. Read on for Hunter's story and details of his new book 'Advanced Concepts in No Limit Hold'em: A Modern Approach to Poker Analysis'.

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Hello PokerSnowie fans from around the world! My name is Hunter Cichy. I'm a 24-year-old pro poker player, author, and gambling consultant based out of Fort Lauderdale, FL. Three years ago I launched a one-on-one coaching program through checkshovepoker.com. Since then, I've coached over 250 small to mid-stakes students over Skype.

Many of my students are live players from the United States and initially it was very difficult to convince them to manually record enough hand histories to fill a one hour coaching session. I sent them custom note-taking templates, iOS apps, and web-based hand history replayers. None of it worked. They just couldn't seem to record enough discussion-worthy situations.

Then I stumbled across PokerSnowie. Not only does PokerSnowie have a beautiful and intuitive hand history replayer, it also allows you to play against a very powerful artificial intelligence and see the exact range breakdowns for every action taken in the hand. When I found out about this in 2015, it almost didn't seem fair. My students could play 100+ hands per hour against a world-class opponent without risking a dollar. Then they could save all of them, send them to me, and easily discuss the range breakdowns over Skype. In essence, they could learn an unexploitable strategy on their own in a few weeks before coming to me for advice on how to construct exploitative strategies to maximize EV against weaker live opponents.

Watching all of this unfold right in front of my eyes was truly incredible! It takes most people two or three years to achieve a win rate of $50/hour playing 2/5 NL. I was able to shrink the process down to two or three months, and none of it would've been possible without PokerSnowie. You have to know what GTO play looks like before you can begin to construct exploitative strategies to combat the homespun lines the average live player will attempt to use. This can all be done with a $229.95/year PokerSnowie Pro subscription and a couple hours of coaching from me.

To prove it, I started recording my coaching sessions and uploading clips to YouTube. The extremely high quality of the free coaching content I submitted caught the attention of many struggling poker players and my business grew rapidly. Soon after, the PokerSnowie developers reached out to me and I became one of their loyal affiliates.

Now I'm going to take this process even further by publishing my first book: 'Advanced Concepts in No Limit Hold'em: A Modern Approach to Poker Analysis'.

In it I've deconstructed many of the key math, pre-flop, and post-flop concepts that have held novice poker players back for so long. There are five formulas that every poker player needs to know: pot-odds, pot equity, fold equity, minimum defense frequency, and implied odds. You need to use at least two of them on each street throughout the hand. Collectively, I call this process 'The Framework'. All of this is closely related to the optimal pre-flop charts presented later in the book. They were all generated using PokerSnowie Pro. Below them, I've added commentary detailing how to alter these ranges depending on rake structure, stack depth, and player pool composition. Lastly, I've included many hand histories to make this information tangible and easily applicable to everyone.

And that's all you need to know. So I'll end this short blog post by saying this: I've been playing poker professionally for seven years and I've had to work very hard to earn the incredible lifestyle the game can provide. I've spent countless hours manually constructing ranges off the table so I could suffer through the ups and downs of trial and error in bigger games before achieving the top win rate I currently maintain. You can avoid this tedious and expensive process by simply downloading PokerSnowie, buying my book, and devoting yourself to the game. I wish I had these resources back when I started out and I'd like to save you a ton of time, energy, and money by pointing you in the right direction. So don't miss out on this opportunity to take your game to the next level!

- Hunter Cichy

In this series, Card Player asks top pros to rewind back to their humble beginnings and provide insights regarding the mistakes, leaks, and deficiencies that they had to overcome in order to improve their games.

Hunter Cichy started playing poker when he was just 12 back in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, but his original goal was to work as a paramedic. However, after finishing the training program and becoming certified, he realized he would be making way more money playing cards for a living.

He ultimately decided to move to South Florida, where he became a regular winner in the big cash games. He’s also had some tournament success finishing runner up in the 2015 $1,000 online event at the WSOP for $116,066, and third in the 2015 Florida State Poker Championship for $104,500.

Now 24, Cichy operates the Check Shove Poker training site. He also wrote a book called Advanced Concepts in No-Limit Hold’em: A Modern Approach To Poker Analysis, which is available on Amazon.

Here, Cichy talks about the importance of knowing your stack size.

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I had one situation come up in the $1,500 mixed max event at the 2014 World Series of Poker. This is the event that starts nine-handed and then plays six-handed, four-handed and finally heads-up to determine the winner.

I ended up going really deep, making it to the four-handed part of the tournament. There were 13 players left, spread out at four tables. Between 13th and 12th place, there was a big pay jump, something like $8,000.

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Somebody opened the button, and I ended up reshipping about 15 big blinds with A-9. The problem is that I didn’t have 15 big blinds. I actually had something like 22 big blinds and had miscounted.

If I had counted my chips correctly, that was a spot where I would probably have either just called the button’s raise, or made a smaller three-bet. Instead, I ended up getting snapped off by A-Q.

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It was just really frustrating because there was something like $400,000 up top and I missed a great opportunity. Not only that, but I also cost myself the pay jump which was pretty significant as well.

It did teach me to have more situational awareness, however. I learned how to stay in the moment. You have to be mindful of not only your stack and how it’s affected by the blinds, but also your opponent’s stack size.

You also have to pay attention to your opponents when you aren’t in the hand. Or even when they aren’t in a hand. I like to gauge how comfortable players look when they aren’t in a hand, so I can compare that how they look after they make a big bet on the river or something like that. ♠