The Mindset Advantage Poker Podcast

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 VPPs on Pokerstars, which has currently only been achieved by four players. Having faced many ups and downs over the course of his career, most of which has been publicly recorded in his yearly blog threads on the TwoPlusTwo forums, he is someone to be looked up to for overcoming adversity and having the mental capacity to always strive to improve on and off the tables. He is now working behind the scenes with a newly created MTT stable, FishTailStaking, which will be looking for new players in the near future.  Mental Game MP3s | Poker Mind Coach

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 biggest live tournament poker winner of all time, having accumulated over $30,600,000 in prize money. He was named the WSOP Player of the Year in 2004 and again in 2013, making him the first player in WSOP history to win the accolade more than once. He was also the 2004-05 WPT Player of the Year. He is the first player to make a final table at each of the three WSOP bracelet-awarding locations (Las Vegas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific) and the first to win a bracelet at each. In 2014, he was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.  Mental Game MP3s | Poker Mind Coach

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 of all time, having accumulated over $30,600,000 in prize money. He was named the WSOP Player of the Year in 2004 and again in 2013, making him the first player in WSOP history to win the accolade more than once. He was also the 2004-05 WPT Player of the Year. He is the first player to make a final table at each of the three WSOP bracelet-awarding locations (Las Vegas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific) and the first to win a bracelet at each. In 2014, he was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.

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 Poker. Tommy’s teachings go into extreme detail on every aspect of living the poker life. In broad strokes, he places emphasis on mental health, and reducing unhappiness, as means to increasing profit and well-being. Tommy is like the Vince Lombardi of poker coaches.  Mental Game MP3s | Poker Mind Coach

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.  Mental Game MP3s | Poker Mind Coach

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 explore players’ past experiences to help to resolve their issues at the table. By helping clients to  understand and resolving the issues of their past  it enables change in their behavior at the table. Mental Game MP3s | Poker Mind Coach

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 Peak Poker Performance: A Qualitative Case Study. She combined her research and her experience playing MTTs into an upper-division university course on the psychology of poker.  She is the author of Positive Poker which features commentary by Jonathan Little. Positive Poker, A Modern Psychological Approach to Mastering Your Mental Game, combines her years of psychological research, clinical experience and poker playing into one place. She is a co-author on Excelling at No-Limit Hold’em, and her chapter focuses on mental toughness for poker players. She is currently developing an online Psychology of Poker cou

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 passion alive by blogging, podcasting and creating videos. His personal blog thread on the TwoPlusTwo forums is incredibly popular, with almost 270,000 views at the time of this recording. Patrick’s strong approach to the mental game makes him a great example of the right way to approach professional poker, a role that he admittedly seeks and enjoys with the players he chooses to stake.  Mental Game MP3s | Poker Mind Coach

Tomáš Molčan, also known as Scarmaker online, is a 6-max cash game player and poker social media enthusiast. He works for the website TiltBook.com, the biggest social media website for poker. TiltBook is a poker community with over 20,000 members, including poker fans and players all the way from micro-stakes grinders to some of the top players in the game. Members can follow other player’s results, thoughts, hands, and goals as well was sharing some of their own. You can follow Scarmaker’s humorous posts and emails by checking out his TiltBook profile here: http://tiltbook.com/scarmaker/ Mental Game MP3s - http://www.pokermindcoach.com/mental-game-mp3s/

In Episode 18 Brian Rast becomes the first two time guest of The Mindset Advantage Podcast. In Episode 11 he discussed his plans for the 2015 summer in Vegas including WSOP events, high stakes cash games, and playing the $500,000 Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB). His summer was a smashing success, as he won a $500,000 SHRB seat in a $25k satellite, had a winning summer in cash games and won the SHRB for $7,525,000. The SHRB win gave Brain his 4th 7 figure score, and moved him up to 11th on the all-time money list.  In this interview we recap his fantastic summer, and learn exactly what work he did on his mental game to help him achieve these results. Brian reveals that he’s been working with Elliot doing private mindset coaching, and explains how it’s helped him improve his game. He also discusses how he was able to stay composed after taking a massive bad beat 3 handed in the SHRB, which allowed him to come back and win. Brian Rast is a high stakes poker pro and lead instructor for Zen Poker Training.

David Tuchman has one of the most recognizable voices in poker. He's the commentator for the WSOP live shows airing on ESPN and streaming on the internet. Mental Game MP3s - http://www.pokermindcoach.com/mental-game-mp3s/

Christ Moneymaker was the winner of WSOP main event in 2003. His win was a major driver in the popularization of poker and the World Series of Poker. This has been referred to as the "Moneymaker Effect." His autobiography, Moneymaker: How an Amateur Poker Player Turned $40 into $2.5 Million at the World Series of Pokerwas published in March 2005. Moneymaker has 2 WPT cashes and 4 WSOP cashes. Moneymaker married his wife in Las Vegas in April, 2005. He currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee. Mental Game MP3s | Poker Mind Coach

Daryl Jace is a professional poker player and MTT specialist from Saugus, Massachusetts. Known online as "aaaaaaaa"and "fkscreennames". Daryl started playing online over 9 years ago back when he was 14. He currently has 3million in winnings and over 1.1 million in profit. His remarkable online scores include 5 sunday million final tables with 2 wins, 5th in the WCOOP main for 200k , 1st in FTOPS main for 385k , 4th in 500$ WCOOP for 200k. As far as the live tournament circuit goes he has 2 deep runs in the WSOP main get in 2009 ( 196th) and 2011 (89th). Daryl is currently traveling the live circuit , trying to make a living as a live pro.  Mental Game MP3s - http://www.pokermindcoach.com/mental-game-mp3s/

Evan Jarvis is the Head Captain of Team Gripsed, and the Lead Instructor of Get Stackin' University.His mission is to help people reach their full potential and become the best poker players they can be. He played poker professionally for 11 years, and he now runs the largest and most popular free poker training YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/user/gripsed. Mental Game MP3s - http://www.pokermindcoach.com/mental-game-mp3s/

Terrence Chan is professional poker player and MMA fighter from Vancouver, Canada. Terrence is perhaps best know for his impressive performance in the 2009 Pokerstars SCOOOP series where he won two limit hold’em events simultaneously – the $500 medium buy in and the $5000 high buy in. Other career highlights include 15 WSOP cashes (primarily in limit), including two 2010 limit final tables. Chan’s poker resume is rounded out by cashes on the WPT an APPT title as well as an assortment of deep runs in other international and local tournaments.  Terrence has also founded and operated customer support organizations for two different poker startups: PokerStars (2002-2004) and Ultimate Poker (2013-2014). His main hobby and passion is the martial arts that are typically associated with the sport of MMA: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai boxing, western boxing, and wrestling. He has an amateur MMA record of 3-0 and a professional MMA record of 1-0. Mental Game MP3s - http://www.pokermindcoach.com/mental-game-mp3s/

TJ Dillashaw is an American mixed martial artist and the current UFC Bantamweight Champion. Dillashaw was also a competitor on The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs. Team Miller. As of April 29, 2015, he is #6 pound-for-pound in the official UFC rankings, and is ranked #1 Bantamweight in the world by Sherdog.com.  Duane Ludwig is a coach, retired American professional kickboxer and mixed martial artist. As the K-1 2002 World MAX USA Champion, he is one of only five K-1 Champions and the only K-1 World MAX Champion to compete in the UFC. In addition, Ludwig also holds the official fastest knockout record in the UFC after his win against Jonathan Goulet (in 0:06) at UFC Fight Night 3.  Ludwig has also received acclaim for his role in the success of Team Alpha Male operating out of Sacramento, California, which is home to numerous highly ranked mixed martial artists who have competed in organizations such as the Ultimate Fighting Championship and World Extreme Cagefighting. Ludwig currently serves as the teams h

António Ramalho has studied economics and he was always good with foreign languages, but was after his studies that he really started taking Poker more serious. He started by playing one dollar tournaments, and by playing micro cash limits. After reading ‘’Kill everyone’’ he started to crush 180s for a 20%+ Roi! In his next challenge he managed to turn himself from a low stakes regular into a solid high stakes regular in only six months, impressing the international community by achieving Supernova Elite with pre rakeback Profit. Nowadays you can find him in the 6 max hyper turbos 60$ up to 500$. And, his European Poker Tour journey already begun. Mental Game MP3s - http://www.pokermindcoach.com/mental-game-mp3s/

Brian Rast is an American professional poker player from Poway, California, currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada. He began playing poker in 2003 and is mostly known for winning two World Series of Poker bracelets in 2011. He was one of the 48 players to enter the biggest poker event in history, the $1,000,000 buy-in The Big One for One Drop during the 2012 WSOP. He final tabled that event and eventually finished in 6th place collecting more than $1.6 million in winnings. Mental Game MP3s - http://www.pokermindcoach.com/mental-game-mp3s/