Jared Tendler has been a driving force behind the rapid advancement of theories and strategies surrounding poker’s ‘mental game’ over the past five years. His books, The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, have been a vital resource to many poker players struggling to overcome tilt issues, striving to achieve peak performance, or simply… Continue reading Jared Tendler: Poker’s Mental Mechanic

The Confidence Paradox Much has been written of the nature of confidence in poker. A lot of mental game literature focuses on confidence as a fundamental tool necessary for success in the game in the long term, but Jared Tendler‘s The Mental Game of Poker astutely points out that in a game with so much… Continue reading The Mistake of Relating Your Confidence to Your Results

A large part of what makes poker such a difficult skill to learn is the sheer breadth and depth of the game. Not only are there a lot of theoretical and practical concepts with which a skilled poker player must be familiar in order to succeed, but in order to improve beyond a certain level,… Continue reading The Benefits of Structured Poker Learning