The Mindset Advantage Poker Podcast
The Mindset Advantage is a weekly Poker Podcast hosted by mindset coaches Elliot Roe. Each episode they are joined by a top poker player to discuss how to become a better player by improving your mindset.
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162 - Michael Loncar - From Tilt to Triumph
04/09/2024
162 - Michael Loncar - From Tilt to Triumph
Since 2007, Michael Loncar has excelled in poker, becoming the top online 6-Max Sit & Go player by 2010. Post-Black Friday, he shifted to live games, winning significant tournaments like the Ante Up NorCal Classic Main Event twice. Loncar joined ACR's Team Pro in 2020 after a major win in 2018. Aside from competing, he coaches and streams poker on Twitch, and enjoys family time in Folsom, California.
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161 - Alex Fitzgerald - The Winning Edges
03/05/2024
161 - Alex Fitzgerald - The Winning Edges
Alex Fitzgerald, a renowned poker pro from the USA, has earned over $3.9 million across live and online games, including notable wins in the WCOOP and SCOOP. Known as "Assassinato" online, his expertise shines in major tournaments like the WPT and EPT. Turning pro in 2006, Fitzgerald has adeptly navigated poker's evolution, becoming a leading coach. His passion for teaching poker strategy and game theory has made him a key mentor in the community, emphasizing his dedication to the game's intellectual and competitive aspects.
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160 - Andy 'Greekfish' Andreou & Misha Van De Kar - A Vision for Poker and Peak Performance
12/11/2023
160 - Andy 'Greekfish' Andreou & Misha Van De Kar - A Vision for Poker and Peak Performance
Today's podcast features Andy 'Greekfish' Andrew and Misha van der Kar from Universal Poker. They share insights on how their unique affiliate service reduces stress and variance for all poker players, whether professional or recreational. Highly recommend checking out Universal Poker for anyone interested in poker.
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159 - Martin Jacobson - All In: The High Stakes of Building a Poker Career
11/30/2023
159 - Martin Jacobson - All In: The High Stakes of Building a Poker Career
Martin Jacobson, from Stockholm, has made a significant mark in the poker world. He started playing poker at 18 and went on to win the WSOP Main Event in 2014, with a prize of $10 million. Recognized for his talent, in February 2015, he was honored as Player of the Year by 'Poker.se', a title held by notable players like Viktor Blom and Chris Bjorin. In 2017, Jacobson further cemented his status in the poker community by becoming a brand ambassador for 888poker. As of 2021, his live tournament winnings have surpassed $17 million, with 39 cash finishes in World Series events totaling $12.150 million. Now residing in London, he balances his poker career with a focus on fitness, coaching, and cooking, advocating for a lifestyle that prioritizes happiness and personal fulfillment.
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158 - Alec Torelli - Life Lessons from Poker
10/31/2023
158 - Alec Torelli - Life Lessons from Poker
Meet Alec Torelli, aka Traheho, a renowned professional poker player hailing from Orange County, California. With over $2,200,000 in tournament winnings, Alec stands as one of the most respected figures in high-stakes poker. His strategic brilliance became evident when he secured second place in the $10,000 Heads Up event at the World Series of Poker, showcasing his exceptional skills on the global stage. Beyond his poker prowess, Alec is a mentor, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker. He founded Conscious Poker, a platform dedicated to sharing his expertise and insights with aspiring players. Alec's ability to translate poker lessons into life and business strategies has made him a sought-after speaker, captivating audiences worldwide. With his impactful coaching and empowering talks, Alec continues to shape the future of poker and inspire countless individuals on their own journeys to success.
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157 - Elliot Roe - A Game Poker Office Hours Webinar
10/02/2023
157 - Elliot Roe - A Game Poker Office Hours Webinar
Elliot Roe Poker Mindset Webinar August 4th.
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156 - Alexander Beldarion - Changes and Challenges in Alex's Career
08/24/2023
156 - Alexander Beldarion - Changes and Challenges in Alex's Career
Alexander Beldarion is a highly successful poker coach who founded Team BAS alongside RYE coach Asaban. Alexander has been coaching and mentoring poker players to help improve their overall expected value, as well as gaining a better understanding of the game. Not only has he been playing professionally since 2007 and finding great success in MTT’s, but has also switched to a more balanced approach playing Spin and Go since his first child was born. Alongside his love for playing the game, he started coaching as a head coach of Team Bas poker.
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155 - Bryan Paris - Crushing Online MTT's
06/30/2023
155 - Bryan Paris - Crushing Online MTT's
Bryan Paris is a professional poker player, who is focused on playing online MTT. He was the second player ever to pass $10 million for career cashes online, and is now streaming his higher stakes MTT’s multiple times a week on Twitch. In this episode, we’ll talk about how Bryan got started, his biggest challenges and learnings, as well as how he balances playing poker with his family life.
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154 – Yves Dubois – The Importance of Fitness to Optimize Performance
03/28/2023
154 – Yves Dubois – The Importance of Fitness to Optimize Performance
Yves Dubois is a former high stakes cash game player who transferred to being an online nutrition and fitness coach for high-performers such as entrepreneurs, high-stakes poker players, and other professionals in high demanding work environments. Knowing the ins and outs of the fitness industry by heart, Yves is dedicated to helping people feel their best, both physically and mentally, and does that by providing individualized guidance to his clients. In this episode, we’re talking about his journey in poker, why he got started in fitness, and the strategies he applies to coaching his clients and helping them live their healthiest lives.
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153 - Rory Young - Mindset for Poker and Business
03/14/2023
153 - Rory Young - Mindset for Poker and Business
Rory Young is a serious high stakes cash games player, who has also reaped significant tournament cash prizes. Rory is also well known for high profile sports bets as well as having founded a high level poker software company. We discuss his poker and business careers as well as the mindset that was necessary for excelling in both fields and what crossover learnings he made.
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152 - Anton Wigg - Holistic Performance in Poker
02/14/2023
152 - Anton Wigg - Holistic Performance in Poker
Anton Wigg is a professional poker player from Sweden, who has racked up over $11 million in combined live and online MTT cash events. Apart from the headline figures, his longevity in the game is truly remarkable. Beyond his achievements in poker, Anton has created a group of elite tournament poker players who collaborate to improve on every aspect of their performance. They do not solely focus on technical aspects in their game, but also mindset and broader aspects of physical and mental performance. Anton has also created a startup company, and we’ll talk about what lessons he transferred from playing poker on such a high level to the business world.
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151 - Sylvain Loosli - Career of Consistent Excellence
02/01/2023
151 - Sylvain Loosli - Career of Consistent Excellence
Sylvain Loosli is a french elite poker professional who is currently living in London. He comes from Toulon (France), earned a masters degree in business studies and currently lives in London. Sylvain has been playing Poker professionally since 2011 with total live earnings of almost $ 8 Mio. In this episode we’ll discuss how Sylvain got to the top and how he makes sure to stay there.
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150 - Ana Marquez - Inside the Mind of Ana
01/17/2023
150 - Ana Marquez - Inside the Mind of Ana
This week’s guest is Ana Márquez, a professional poker player from Spain. She began playing poker during her time in college, initially playing cash games in Atlantic City. Before she joined Americas Cardroom in 2022, she was a member of Team PokerStars as well as Team 888poker. Ana has been ranked as #1 poker player in Spain and won $2 million in live tournaments. Having been successful in many tournaments, her highest cash prize to date is $445,000 by finishing third in the Partypoker Live Millions Vegas Main Event at the Aria Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. As a true professional, Ana does not only work on her technical game, but is also focused on her mindset routines to execute on the highest possible level.
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149 - Stephen Baker - Mindset Coaching, the Subconscious Mind and Leveraging Novelty
07/08/2022
149 - Stephen Baker - Mindset Coaching, the Subconscious Mind and Leveraging Novelty
This week’s guest is Stephen Baker, former courtroom lawyer and entrepreneur, who made it as a professional poker player and mindset coach. In this episode, we will talk about the subconscious mind, how to work with it in order to achieve your best performance, what leveraging novelty means and how you can apply it to your mindset practice.
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148 - Patrick Howard - A Data-Driven Approach to Playing Poker
06/29/2022
148 - Patrick Howard - A Data-Driven Approach to Playing Poker
This week’s guest is Patrick Howard, lead strategy developer at Poker Detox, an elite coaching and staking company for poker players, joins the show to discuss a data-driven approach to playing poker. We’ll discuss how he got started with poker and how his background in physics helped him to develop a data-driven methodology. He will explain common patterns that he has witnessed in low- as well as high-performing poker players and how mindset comes into the picture.
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147 - K.L. Cleeton - Find His Way Through Poker
05/19/2022
147 - K.L. Cleeton - Find His Way Through Poker
This week’s guest is K.L. Cleeton, a professional poker player and entrepreneur, who shares his experiences with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1 as well as the mindset that is needed for overcoming challenges and impacting other people’s lives. We talk about how he got started with poker and the success that came with it, as well as how he shifted his focus to building a platform that’s helping poker players of all levels to improve and stay sharp. In this episode, K.L. Cleeton joins the show to discuss what mindset people need to set themselves up for financial success.
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146 - Blake Eastman - The Truth About Poker Tells
10/29/2021
146 - Blake Eastman - The Truth About Poker Tells
This post and podcast episode contain affiliate links for . When you use our links we receive referral commissions when you enroll in the program. We are extremely selective with who we partner with, and are committed to recommending only the highest quality products and services that will benefit our listeners. Thank you for supporting the show! Blake Eastman didn’t believe that poker tells had much (if any) value. Even as an adjunct psychology professor and founder of the behavioral research company The Nonverbal Group, he fell into the camp that believed old-school pros overvalued physical tells, and that betting patterns and game theory were all that really mattered. However, being the researcher at heart he decided to put this theory to the test. To do this, he funded his own research study, where 79 players were filmed over the course of many hours of play. After painstakingly analyzing the data over hundreds of hours, Blake found nothing. He watched film from players who were weak and found nothing. He watched film from players who were strong and found nothing. Just as he was about to give up, he decided to look at the data in a different light, and finally found the breakthrough he was looking for. Blake had finally cracked the live poker tells code, and he’s gone on to consult with players in the biggest games in the world and helped significantly increase their edge in those games. He’s also packaged everything he learned from that study, and everything he’s learned since then, into his . In this episode, Blake joins the show to discuss his journey from “Tells Skeptic” to “Tells Consultant”, and explains why .
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145 - Matthew Jarvis - From November Nine To Venture Funded
08/12/2021
145 - Matthew Jarvis - From November Nine To Venture Funded
This post and podcast episode contain affiliate links for Odin Poker. When you use our links we receive referral commissions when you purchase a membership. We are extremely selective with who we partner with, and are committed to recommending only the highest quality products and services that will benefit our listeners. Thank you for supporting the show! Odin Poker Grand Opening Special: . Matt Jarvis is most known for losing one of the biggest rollercoaster hands (with $3mm in equity on the line) in the history of televised poker at the 2010 WSOP ME final table. However, he didn’t let that bad beat hold him back as he parlayed his winnings in that tournament into multiple successful business ventures. After embarking on a journey of entrepreneurship, Matt was finally able to combine his passions for poker and business into a mobile gaming app called Cash Live Poker. After getting funding from some of the biggest names in poker, and winning a spot in Snapchat’s Accelerator program, Cash Live is on the trajectory of massive success. In this episode, Matt joins the show to share his journey from poker to business and how he plans to give anyone with a mobile app the chance to experience what it feels like to win a massive poker tournament.
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144 - Rory Young - Introducing Odin Poker
07/28/2021
144 - Rory Young - Introducing Odin Poker
Odin Poker Grand Opening Special: . Rory Young is a high-stakes professional poker player with experience in live cash games as big as $1000/$2000 NL. As someone who used solvers as the backbone of his study, Rory grew increasingly frustrated with the tedious and expensive process of running sims, and he decided to find a better way. And that's when the Odin Poker team was born. In this week’s episode, Rory joins the show to give an Odin Poker review and share why he's more optimistic than ever about the game's profitability despite this dramatic leap in poker study technology. During Odin Poker’s Grand Opening, you can .
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143 - Mario Mosbock - Following The Fedor Holz Blueprint
07/02/2021
143 - Mario Mosbock - Following The Fedor Holz Blueprint
Mario Mosböck is a former professional footballer who gave up the game and transitioned into the poker world. After following the blueprint laid out for him by his mentor Fedor Holz, Mario has recently had some significant scores, including taking down the SCOOP Main Event for over $800,000. In this week’s episode, we dive deep into why he decided to give up life as a professional athlete, the emotional roller coaster of winning the SCOOP Main Event, and how he’s used the power of network to rapidly accelerate his learning.
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142 - Jon Van Fleet - GTO Informed Street Poker
06/17/2021
142 - Jon Van Fleet - GTO Informed Street Poker
>> With nearly $20,000,000 in online MTT cashes, Jonathan “apestyles” Van Fleet has long been considered one of the top players in the game. Recently, he’s allowed the poker world to peek behind the curtain with regular streams on Twitch, and his In this episode, apestyles shares the struggles and insecurities he dealt with at the start of his Twitch streaming career, and he used this new challenge to further fuel his success on the tables.
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141 - Patrick Leonard - AGPM & Pads on Pads Summer Sale Q&A
06/08/2021
141 - Patrick Leonard - AGPM & Pads on Pads Summer Sale Q&A
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140 - Vanessa Kade - The Power of Putting It All Together
05/20/2021
140 - Vanessa Kade - The Power of Putting It All Together
As a self-taught coder, Vanessa Kade started her career in the video game industry. She discovered poker at the office, where her co-workers would regularly play a quick sit-and-go during lunch. After years of grinding live games, Vanessa switched to online in order to give Twitch streaming a try. It was then that she realized she could no longer coast on intelligence alone and needed to put in serious work if she was going to be successful in the game. After a “simulation-like” run that saw her speaking out against misogyny in the poker world and getting an ACR contract, Vanessa capped it off by taking down the PokerStars Sunday Million Anniversary Special for $1,514,920. In this episode, Vanessa joins Elliot Roe to discuss the emotional roller coaster that played out like a fairy tale and culminated in the biggest score of Vanessa’s career.
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139 - Paul Otto - From Poker to Crypto
04/01/2021
139 - Paul Otto - From Poker to Crypto
Paul Otto built one of the most respected coaching teams in the game and has now moved on to using the skills he learned in poker to take on the cryptocurrency world. He currently runs F5 Crypto Capital and is paving the way for regulated cryptocurrency funds in Germany. In this episode, Elliot and Paul discuss what it takes to make it in today’s games, why Paul is still optimistic about the game’s future, and why poker players have a significant edge in the cryptocurrency world.
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138 - Shakti Chauhan - The Treasure Hidden in Your Network
03/11/2021
138 - Shakti Chauhan - The Treasure Hidden in Your Network
>> << There’s gold waiting for you in your poker network, and it’s not just in the money you win at the tables… When poker pro Shakti Chauhan started hosting games to fuel his gambling habit, he realized the rich opportunity hidden in the relationships he cultivated with other players—and learned a lot about himself along the way. In this episode, he shares how he created his wealth by building his network and seeking out the opportunities inside.
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137 - Robbie Strazynski - The Poker Writer
02/25/2021
137 - Robbie Strazynski - The Poker Writer
Improve Your Poker Mindset. >> << Motivated by his passion for poker, journalist Robbie Strazynski started writing about poker for fun through his blog and newsletter at CardPlayerLifestyle.com. As his audience grew, Robbie transitioned his passion project into a full-time career, and now he attends poker events around the world, capturing stories from celebrities and poker pros. In this episode, poker journalist Robbie Strazynski of CardPlayerLifestyle.com shares how he got his start in poker media, discovered his niche, and turned his love for the game into his dream job. If you love the game of poker, you don’t have to limit yourself to playing professionally. There’s a wide industry around poker—where might you fit in. Click play to hear Robbie’s story.
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136 - Peter Clarke - The Philosophy of Poker
02/11/2021
136 - Peter Clarke - The Philosophy of Poker
Whether you’re a seasoned player or just getting started, your biggest leaks at the table come from emotional decision making. Do you bring awareness and intention to every hand? Or do you make automatic plays based on your subconscious habits? Know the science. Know the numbers. Balance with logic. And catch yourself before you punt off your stack again! Your emotional leaks could be holding you back and costing your bankroll over time… In this episode, Peter Clarke, long-time online cash game coach and author of Poker Therapy, shares how he stays ahead of the game—by taking a philosophical and rational approach to solver GTO strategy. Click play to learn more!
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135 - Wayne Yap & Nick Howard - Beyond Poker
01/29/2021
135 - Wayne Yap & Nick Howard - Beyond Poker
What comes after a successful poker career? Because of the high variance and limited economy the game offers, many players seek to diversify into business. Some want to leave the daily grind behind and transition out of the game. Nick Howard and Wayne Yap are solving this problem with Beyond Poker, a podcast and network with a goal to help players transfer their skills into new markets. Sure, you can create a startup, but that’s not the only option—and it may not even be the best choice for you. Looking to transition out of the game? Want to grow multiple streams of income beyond your table time? In this episode, Nick and Wayne talk investments, business, mergers and acquisitions, and more. Click play to get inspired.
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134 - Melissa Burr - Mental Health in Poker
11/26/2020
134 - Melissa Burr - Mental Health in Poker
Despite making poker history by becoming the first woman to final table the Poker Players Championship in 2014, Melissa struggled with the pressure and expectations from the sudden notoriety. After hitting rock bottom in her personal life last year, Melissa decided to follow her happiness and is now sharing her story with the world. With a mission to normalize mental health struggles in poker, she recently joined up with director Mario Cerrito to create a documentary series. In this episode of the Mindset Advantage Podcast, Melissa reflects candidly on her struggles with anxiety throughout her years as a professional poker player.
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133 - Michael Acevedo - Humanizing GTO
11/06/2020
133 - Michael Acevedo - Humanizing GTO
Think GTO is about playing like a robot? Michael Acevedo wants you to reconsider… Yes, solvers have had a controversial place in poker history, but the application of them in gameplay has evolved since they arrived on the scene, and Michael wrote a whole book called Modern Poker Theory: Building an Unbeatable Strategy Based on GTO Principles. In this episode, this mathematician shares some juicy insight into the practical, down-to-earth, HUMAN approach to GTO. The goal should never be to play perfectly mechanically, but studying solver-based strategy and adjusting your gameplay to your opponents will give you an edge, which means more winnings at the tables over time. Listen to this episode to learn more!
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