The Mindset Advantage Poker Podcast

In This Week's Episode:  Fernando Habegger, known online as "JNandez87", has been a professional poker player since 2011. His main game is $10/$20 Pot Limit Omaha and has accumulated over $100K in online tournament winnings. After being an elite coach for Run It Once for over 2 years, Fernando started his own brand "JNandez Poker" and began streaming PLO live on Twitch. In 2015, he ran a challenge...

For past episodes of the Mindset Advantage Podcast visit: https://www.pokermindcoach.com/tmapodcast/ In This Week's Episode:  WCOOP is online poker's biggest tournament series and runs from Sept 3-26th this year. It includes 81 events and features a wide range of game type and formats, and is sure to bring out the best players in the world. To compete for your share of the $60,000,000 guaranteed d...

For past episodes of the Mindset Advantage Podcast visit: https://www.pokermindcoach.com/tmapodcast/ In This Week's Episode: Before Scott Blumstein sat down for Day 1C of the WSOP Main Event, he had never entered a tournament over $3,500. On Day 4 he finished 8th in chips. After 7 grueling days, he entered the final table as the chip leader with 97,250,000 chips... And in hand #246 of the final ta...

For past episodes of the Mindset Advantage Podcast visit: https://www.pokermindcoach.com/tmapodcast/ About This Week's Guest:  Jared Tendler wrote the book on The Mental Game of Poker, in fact, he wrote two. His best-selling books The Mental Game of Poker 1 & The Mental Game of Poker 2 have introduced thousands of player to the mental game, and have been instrumental in growing the interest for po...

In This Week's Episode: Ari Meisel is an author and entrepreneur who's books include: Idea to Execution and Less Doing, More Living. He's also the co-founder of Leverage, an upscale Virtual Assistant Service . Ari's philosophy of Less Doing is all about optimizing, automating, and outsourcing life's daily tasks to free yourself to do what you're most effective at.   In This Episode You'll Learn: H...

In This Week's Episode: Over the last few weeks, there has been a buzz about the new app being released by Fedor Holz and our own Elliot Roe. This week, Fedor joins the show for a 3rd time to reveal all the details on the project.   Primed Mind is a mobile app designed to make mindset coaching accessible to the entire world. They do this by providing bespoke mindset sessions for the most important...

Kevin Martin is a professional MTT player, Twitch Streamer, PokerStars Pro and Reality TV Superstar. After a 9th place finish in Big Brother Canada Season 3, he returned in Season 5 and went all the way to the end, facing off with his biggest rival in the final competition of the season. While his opponent crumbled under pressure, Kevin's experience in high-pressure final tables showed, and he was...

This week is going to be a bit different. Over the last few episodes, you've probably heard about the recently launched Poker Mind Coach Academy . It's a community of ambitious poker players all trying to reach their full potential in the game. One of the benefits of being a member is a bonus segment from the podcast called "Afterthoughts." After we record an episode Elliot, Adrienne, and the gues...

In This Episode You'll Learn: How Matt went from a break even online MTT player to crushing the highest stakes in just 6 months. Why Matt was one of the few poker pro fist pumping when Black Friday happened. What happened when Matt lost $5.5mm in the 300/600/1200 and was down to his very last buy-in for the game. Why poker is rooted in failure, and how using that knowledge can help you not to take...

Lex Veldhuis is a Dutch professional player and a member of PokerStar's Team Pro Online. Lex made a name for himself with his hyper-aggressive play in televised cash games like High Stakes Poker and The Big Game. With roots in online gaming and e-sports, Lex's true home is on the online tables. Over the last year, he's dedicated himself to growing his Twitch.tv following and has one of the biggest...

In This Week's Episode: Doug Polk is known as one of the (if not THE) best Heads Up No Limit Holdem players of all time. In addition to making a name for himself on the tables, he made waves in the poker community by not being afraid to speak his mind and call out other players. He's also had success in the live poker arena with two WSOP bracelets and over $5 million in earnings. Since starting hi...

In This Week's Episode: Since his appearance on the first ever TMA Podcast episode, Daniel "Oxota" Dvoress has taken the live poker scene by storm. Since then he's amassed over $3,000,000 in live tournament earnings, and become a staple in the High Roller/Super High Roller scene. Daniel joins us to share how the ups and downs of making the transition from online to live, and how he uses mindset wo...

In This Week's Episode: In Tommy Angelo's new book, Painless Poker , he approaches teaching the mental game from a new angle. The book focuses around 7 fictional poker players, all archetypical characters representing the pain we experience while playing, who are attending Tommy's "Painless Poker Clinic." Rather than teaching mindset with the typical textbook approach, you get to follow along with...

In This Week's Episode: Jon "Apestyles" Van Fleet has been one of the most successful and profitable online tournament players of the last decade. With $8,000,000 in lifetime cashes, he's won some of online poker's toughest tournaments, including Pokerstars' $1,050 Super Tuesday and Sunday Grand, and he has the highest average cash of the top 20 players on Pocket 5s' all-time earnings leaderboard....

In This Week's Episode: Big news this week!  Dr. Tricia Cardner has decided to focus on other pursuits and will no longer be co-hosting the show. We'd like to thank Dr. Cardner for her contribution to the show and for her dedication to helping poker players improve their mindset. You can follow along with her work by visiting her website: http://www.drtriciacardner.com/ Taking over co-hosting duti...

Kurt "kurt23x" Fitzgerald has been an MTT pro for the last 10 years. After Black Friday he briefly gave live poker a try but was lured to Costa Rica by some poker friends. His initial run while living there did not go well, and he moved back home with that plan to get a conventional job and go back to school. After getting a taste of this life, he decided to re-dedicate himself to the game and gav...

Kristy Arnett first made a name for herself in the poker world by reporting on the game. She started playing poker in university, and in 2006 made the move to Las Vegas to work for Card Player. After accomplishing everything she wanted in the poker journalism world, she made the switch to full-time player. She used the added freedom this gave her to focus on self-development. That has led her to b...

In this week's episode, Simon Jonas shares how being a poker pro has given him the freedom to travel the world and explore his passions. You'll hear how the praise he got from becoming a great player made him question if there was more to poker than just getting to the top, what he discovered after reading 120 books in 2 years, and the one thing he's sure is more important than mastering math and...

Dan Heskett was a successful high-stakes HUSNG professional, but after one private coaching session with Elliot, he was inspired to take his life in a new direction. In episode 52 of The Mindset Advantage Podcast, Dan shares the result of that session and why it led to him getting qualified in Hypnotherapy. He also discusses his journey as a professional poker player, and his new direction to help...

The Mindset Advantage Guest Run-Good continues as Eric Crain recently took down DraftKings Millionaire Maker. He also placed 3rd, 4th, and 12th in the contest and totaled $1,350,000 in winnings on the day. He returns on this week's episode to talk about what it was like to sweat the final minutes of the game and how the score will impact his career. He also shares valuable insights on what it take...

310 miles. 48 Hours. 1-day notice. That's what Brian Rast had to accomplish on his bike to win a $600,000 prop bet with Dan Bilzerian. These were the terms: Brian's $100,000 to Bilzerians's $600,000. Riding only a road bike from the Las Vegas sign to Bilzerian's house in Beverly Hills (about 310 miles). He must leave by midnight the following day, so he would have no time to train. The crazy part?...

Bryan "bparis" Paris is one of the most successful MTT players in online poker history. With $9,671,716.97 in earnings (at the time this episode was released), he ranks 3rd in the all time online earnings leaderboard. He also runs a popular Twitch channel , where you can regularly find him playing high stakes online MTTs. Poker success came relatively easily for Bryan. He built his bankroll when t...

Christian Soto is a professional poker player from New Jersey. He got his start in live, low-stakes, cash games, but now focuses on $5/$10+ cash games and mid-stakes live MTTs. Feeling that the slow grind of cash games wouldn't allow him to achieve his goals fast enough, he embraced variance and Jumped into MTTs for the shot to get a big score early to boost his bankroll. It worked out, as after g...

Since he first joined us in Episode 3 of The Mindset Advantage Podcast, Jonathan Little has co-written a book with TMA co-host Dr. Tricia Cardner and launched the new training site PokerCoaching.com . Peak Poker Performance lays out a blueprint for playing your "A" game every session. Topics covered in the book include; Creating winning habits, systematizing success, and beating procrastination. P...

Brent Hanks is a former teacher turned professional poker player who now works for the 24/7 poker network Poker Central. His poker accomplishments include 6 WSOP final tables, one WSOP bracelet and $1,521,204 in live MTT earnings. Poker Central is the world's only 24/7 Poker TV network, and can currently be seen on most streaming devices such as the AppleTV, FireTV, Roku, and Xbox. They also run a...