The Mindset Advantage Poker Podcast

When we last spoke to Fedor "CrownUpGuy" Holz, in Episode 34, he was about to start play in an Alpha 8 final table as the chip leader. He went on to win it for $1,589,216. Two week later he took down the WPTN Philippines SHR for $3,463,500. Now, he's back to talk about how those wins have changed his mindset as well a discuss his upcoming MTT master class. Click here to visit the show page for all...

On Thursday, April 21st, 2016 Olivier Busquet and JC Alvarado touched gloves in the Octagon at Syndicate MMA in Las Vegas, NV.  The fight was the culmination of 6-months of intense training, and a $270k purse was up for grabs.  Over 100 spectators paid a $20 entry fee, which was all donated to the One Drop charity, and thousands more watched online. Most had a financial interest in the fight, with...

Rob Tinnion is best known for winning the Sunday Million outright twice and has been one of the most consistent online MTT winners over the last few years with over $650,000 in total profit. He is also a manager and coach for the backing group Pocarr, and founder of the MTT training site Max-Value.com . Rob's rise to the top of the MTT world is a great case study on how far hard work and a strong...

Sean Kapul is a mid-high stakes PLO cash game pro who has been winning at the game since 2008. Sean decided to take a shot at going pro after hearing his older friends constantly complaining about their conventional jobs. A 2nd place finish, for $50,000, in a 1k Venetian 1k MTT during his last year of university gave him the buffer he needed to take the plunge. In our interview, Sean talks about h...

You can often find Matt Berkey sitting in the biggest game in Ivey's room, where six, and even seven, figure pots are regularly contested. His poker career started as just a way to fund his dream of making a Major League Baseball roster. After playing four years of college baseball, Matt set off on the road traveling between pro tryouts along the East Coast and in the Mid-West. In between tryouts...

Adam Sherman is an online MTT pro turned Wall Street Trader. His first major score came in PokerStars' Wednesday Quarter Million event in January '10 for $58,200. He followed that up with a victory in the Stars $150k Guaranteed for $41.1k and also has a first place finish in the Nightly Hundred Grand for $22,700. One of his largest online tournament cashes came courtesy of a victory in the PokerSt...

Ryan, aka "YourDoom", is a successful NLH cash game pro, video producer and coach. Over his last one million mid-to-high stakes cash game hands, he has maintained an 11bb/100 winrate. Before poker Ryan obtained a Master's degree in Secondary Math Education, and worked as a math teacher. He has translated this teaching ability to YourDoomPoker.com, a poker training site for high level players. You'...

In part 1 of our interview with Olivier Busquet , we covered an incident that sparked his motivation to become the best HUSNG player in the world, how he started to learn deep poker theory and what he's done to improve his tilt issues. In part 2 we dive into his strategies for dealing with downswings and discuss his upcoming high-stakes MMA prop bet vs. J.C. Alvarado. You'll also learn: • How a pr...

Olivier "livb112" Busquet is known as one of the most successful heads up SNG players in online poker history. In recent years, he has branched out to live MTTs, where he has quickly racked up $6,857,078 in earnings. Olivier's passion for greatness was sparked when he was berated for his losing HUSNG SharkScope graph early in his poker career. A desire to get that graph even quickly transformed in...

Carlos Welch has been playing and studying the game of poker for over ten years. He is a writer for various poker media outlets and has been a frequent guest on several poker podcasts. He plays small to mid-stakes tournaments and is well known for his extreme frugality - most notably his decision to live in a van. Although he travels the world playing poker, he is not quite a professional poker pl...

Paul "Internet" Otto got his start in poker at the play money tables and worked his way up to being a mid/high-stakes 6-Max NL pro. He is also a highly regarded coach and video maker, producing content for IveyLeague.com . Paul is the owner of PokerMarket.com , a website where you can sell and buy both tournament action and poker content. You'll also find an active forum and rakeback deals on the...

Fedor Holz is a 22 year old player from Germany, now residing in Vienna Austria. In his short career Fedor has won several tournaments including the WCOOP Main Event 2014, he plays the high roller circuit now and placed 25th in the 2015 WSOP Main Event. Mental   Game  MP3s | Poker Mind Coach

Eric Crain burst onto the poker scene when he was featured in the ESPN Coverage of the USPC in Atlantic City (video below). His online and live MTT earnings total $1,584,960 including 3 WSOP Circuit rings, 3 WSOP final tables, and a $215 WCOOP win for $281,524. Eric's poker career has been the definition of swingy, and in our interview he discusses winning and losing million dollar bankrolls on mu...

Mark Herm (known online as "Dipthrong"or "shippitt") is one of the most successful online tournament players in the world. He has been playing online poker professionally for 10 years and has amassed over 6 million dollars profit in poker play. He has also run one of the most successful online poker backing operations in history. He has won nearly every big online tournament including a Sunday Mil...

Paul is a former high school teacher who now plays and teaches heads up sit and go tournaments for a living. He is perhaps the best known coach for these games professionally. He has developed two very popular courses that teach people how to become profitable at regular and turbo speed games as well as the hyper turbo husngs. Paul's hourly rates are $100 per hour and he works via Skype and screen...

Joshua 'jdawg91' Hoesel is a 24 year old US born SNG pro that has resided in Rosarito Beach, Mexico since November, 2011, and plays on PokerStars as "slayerv1fan". He has achieved SuperNova Elite+ four years straight, playing mostly midstakes to nosebleed hyper-turbo SNGs. In that time he has accumulated over 7 million VPPs, and will likely become the youngest player to earn 10 million lifetime VP...

This is Part 2 of our interview with Daniel Negreanu, a professional poker player who has won six World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and two World Poker Tour (WPT) championship titles. The independent poker ranking service Global Poker Index (GPI) has recognised Negreanu as the best poker player of the past decade. Since his second place in the Big One For One Drop 2014 tournament, he is the b...

Daniel Negreanu is a professional poker player who has won six World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and two World Poker Tour (WPT) championship titles. The independent poker ranking service Global Poker Index (GPI) has recognised Negreanu as the best poker player of the past decade. Since his second place in the Big One For One Drop 2014 tournament, he is the biggest live tournament poker winner...

Tommy Angelo grinded for 15 years before opening his "TILTLESS" coaching business ten years ago. Most of his clients are professional players. Tommy now defines himself as a writer. His 2007 book, Elements of Poker is widely considered to be one of the best poker books. Tommy writes a monthly column for PokerNews, he makes videos for RunItOnce.com , and he is finishing his third book, Painless Pok...

Jaime Staples also known by his alias Staples is a Canadian professional poker player from Alberta, Canada who specializes in live streaming of online low stakes multi-table tournaments on Twitch.tv. He primarily plays on PokerStars and became a 'Friend of PokerStars' in April 2015. As of 2015, his total live tournament winnings exceed $9,000 and his online tournament winnings exceed $550,000.   M...

Alexander 'msusyr24' Carr is founder of Pocarr. Alex has played over 100,000 tournaments on PokerStars and is also a coach for Pocarr. Alex now plays primarily cash games and MTT's while helping manage Pocarr.    Mental   Game  MP3s | Poker Mind Coach

Elliot Roe is a licensed Hypnotherapist based in Las Vegas who specializes in helping poker players resolve their mindset issues at the table. During his career, Elliot has worked with over 150 poker players from NL25 all the way up to some of the best known high stakes pros.  Elliot's take on mindset issues differs from many of the other mindset coaches. He uses his expertise in hypnotherapy to e...

Adam "coffeeyay" Sobolewski. Currently residing in Denver and also the Shetland Islands for poker, Adam is a Heads Up SNG pro and coach. He created the "CoffeeHUD" for heads up players and is the author of "Math in HUSNG's". Adam has a BS and MS in Mathematics and a BA in physics with honors, a university level teaching certificate and has taught semesters of calculus and physics.

Dr. Tricia Cardner is a peak performance strategist who provides coaching and consulting to some of today's biggest names in poker, sport and business by teaching them how to use psychology to gain an edge over their competition. After becoming enamored with the game of poker, she conducted research on the psychological traits of elite tournament poker players for her doctoral dissertation called ...

Patrick "Pads1161" Leonard is a MTT pro with over 2M in online earnings. He also coaches and runs a very successful MTT staking group. He's twice reached the #1 spot in the PocketFives Online MTT Rankings, and has accomplished the rare feat of final tabling every PokerStars Sunday Major. His love for creating media led him to get a Journalism major at the University of Sheffield, and he keeps that...