The Mindset Advantage Poker Podcast

In This Week's Episode:

Nick Howard returns for Part Two of his interview. If you haven't already please listen to Part One first.

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• Exactly what you should do if you're a low stakes player who feels like they've missed the boat, but still wants an opportunity to make it in poker. (7:52)
• Why Nick chose to start a coaching for profits group that ONLY accepted losing players. (11:37)
• The most devastating form of tilt and how Nick "punted his life off" for 8 years straight because of it. (17:46)
• What to do if you're putting in 7-12 hours of study each week but still not seeing results (18:31)
• The key mindset shift between Nick's students who got stuck in the micros and those who are now earning $30-$50k per month at high stakes. (20:51)

Nick Howard

• PokerDetox.com
• YouTube Channel
• Run It Once Blog
• Twitch

Adrienne "Talonchick" Rowsome:

• Watch and Subscribe to Adrienne's Twitch Channel
• Instagram
• Twitter
• Facebook

In This Week's Episode:

Nick Howard has been a professional poker coach for eight years. As a former RunItOnce.com coach, he became known for teaching practical simplifications of well-balanced play. I️n 2015-2016, he documented a notable amount of success on Ignition High stakes in his Run it Once Blog "Achieving Higher Balance," where he developed many of the independent learning strategies he uses today.

Nick Howard is the founder and CEO of Poker Detox, an NLHE training company that launched in May 2016. In its first year, Poker Detox produced three major public courses, and Nick began a side project attempting to train a selection of losing players, using a team-training format. By Fall of 2017, that "losers" team had proven itself successful, and Nick had been able to refine his coaching methodologies to a point where he was ready to expand.

Poker Detox now functions as one of the most elite application-based staking companies in the industry, containing a crew of mind coaches and language-optimization experts that work to provide a full support system for students. The company achieved a high enough level of methodology that it became possible to tailor the Detox training system for players of different native languages and even different learning types. The result is a powerful combination of training exercises that highlight the necessary concepts while empowering the learner to choose their path toward integration.

Applications for new team members are accepted several times per year, and in 2018 Poker Detox became the first training organization to offer guaranteed salaries to its players.

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• How chasing the GTO dream caused Nick to hit rock bottom and nearly give up on the game. (3:56)
• The two-step process for creating poker strategies that are both easier to implement and more profitable than GTO. (7:54)
• The hyper-aggressive exploits that have Nick's student's moving up so fast that their opponents have no time to adjust. (9:20)
• The mindset that is guaranteed to limit your progress in the game and kill any possible motivation. (10:36)
• Why it's impossible to separate the mental game from the strategic game when trying to analysis hands at the highest level. (12:58)
• How different culture and language affect playing styles and optimal methods of learning the game. (25:45)

Nick Howard

• PokerDetox.com
• YouTube Channel
• Run It Once Blog
• Twitch

Adrienne "Talonchick" Rowsome:

• Watch and Subscribe to Adrienne's Twitch Channel
• Instagram
• Twitter
• Facebook

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 to turn $20,000 into $100,000 in 100 days and succeeded on day 96.

Earlier this year, Fernando switched to YouTube as his main content creation platform, where he mostly makes videos about both, live and online poker, mindset subjects and traveling vlogs.

As the sole Pot Limit Omaha instructor on Upswing Poker, he just launched his second product called the PLO Lab, where his goal is to empower more poker players to follow in his steps, rise up the stakes and gain personal independence.

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• Why Fernando chose the "Burn All The Bridges" approach to starting his professional career rather than playing it safe
• What Fernando decided to spend 2/3 of his life roll on the moment he decided to go pro.
• The mindset Fernando cultivated that allows his to play his best even when he drops down in stakes during a downswing.
• A two-step process for creating a massive life's vision that will motivate you to crush it every day.
• How to go from "socially awkward poker pro" to growing a huge network with friends and connections in every city you visit.

JNandez Poker

• Youtube
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram
• The PLO Lab

Adrienne "Talonchick" Rowsome:

• Watch and Subscribe to Adrienne's Twitch Channel
• Instagram
• Twitter
• Facebook

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 during WCOOP you'll need to bring your A-Game every day. In this special episode of the Mindset Advantage Poker Podcast, Elliot and Adrienne share their secrets for success in WCOOP and other big MTT festivals.

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• How your time zone can give you a huge edge when you make a WCOOP final table. This is why some pros fly halfway around the world to play WCOOP, even if poker is legal in their home country.
• The one thing you must do to prevent burnout during WCOOP. Do this if you want to give yourself the best shot at winning the biggest prize pools at the end of the series.
• A short work out before playing has been proven to improve mental performance. Adrienne shares the exact workout she does that takes just 7 minutes.
• How to NOT blow your entire year's profit during WCOOP
• How to decide when to quit chasing a leader board and when to double down. Most players end up chasing points over profits by doing this wrong.
• What to do when you find yourself close to burnt out just 10 days into a series.
• Why Adrienne wears the same clothes repeatedly during all of WCOOP. (Yes, she still washes them.)

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 table, he 3-bet shoved Ah2d and was called by Dan Ott's Ad8s.

The board ran out Js6s5h7h, and just as it looked like Ott would double, the 2h landed on the river, giving Scott Blumstein the WSOP Main Event tilt and $8,150,000.

During the two day break between the end of Day 7 and the start of the final table, Scott brought in Elliot Roe to mentally prepare him for the biggest 3 days of his poker career, saying:

"Honestly, with the 48-hours I thought the mental game was more important than any technical stuff I could learn at that juncture."

In this Episode of The Mindset Advantage podcast, Scott Blumstein joins Elliot Roe and Adrienne "Talonchick" Rowsome to talk about winning the most prestigious tournament in poker.

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• How a mental blow up on Day 7 nearly cost Scott the entire tournament.
• Why he chose to prioritize working on his mental game over his technical game during the 48-hour break before the final table.
• What motivated Scott to win (even more than the $8,150,00 first place prize).
• How Scott went from a "Mental Game Fish", who preached that there was no skill in poker to WSOP Main Event Champion.
• Exactly what it felt like when the 2h fell on river, giving Scott the win and the $8,150,000 first prize.
• What's next for the 2017 WSOP Main Event Champ.

Links:

Scott Blumstein

• Twitter

Adrienne Rowsome:

• Adrienne Rowsome:

  • Watch and Subscribe to Adrienne's Twitch Channel
  • Twitter
  • Facebook

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 poker mindset content.

Jared was first introduced to the game when he met poker-pro Dusty Schmidt on the golf course. After hearing about the trials and tribulations Dusty went through in poker, he felt that his mental game coaching program would be a great fit for poker players, and he started working with Dusty to test this theory out.

When Dusty achieved SNE and saved thousands of dollars in broken computer equipment, Jared felt confident that he had something of value to share with the poker world.

From there he created content for Stox Poker and went on to write his two books. Jared's clients include WSOP November Niners, WSOP bracelet winners, and EPT Champions. He is now recognized as one of the leading experts on the mental game in the poker industry.

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• How Mental Game coaching can pay for itself if you're prone to smash mouses, computer monitors, or your walls when on tilt.
• How the Mental Game has evolved over the last 10 years, and where it's going over the next 10.
• The mental leaks you might have if you've ever said: "Even if I'm mad or on tilt, it doesn't affect my game."
• How "Embracing Your Suck" can kick start a failing poker career.
• The one time it tilt's Jared to see players reading his books.
• How the Mental Game work you do in poker can carry over to all areas of life.

Jared Tendler:

• Get The Mental Game of Poker audio book for free
• The Mental Game of Poker 1
• The Mental Game of Poker 2
• Twitter

Adrienne Rowsome:

• Watch and Subscribe to Adrienne's Twitch Channel
• Twitter
• Facebook

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:

• How Ari's team is able to accommodate any (legal) request, even if it's getting a photo of you riding on a grizzly bear while holding a bald eagle.
• How technology can take your bad habits and make them substantially worse.
• The "Liberty Paradox" that causes poker players to get less done even though they have unlimited freedom.
• How to figure out what daily tasks you can outsource to someone else.
• How to transition from "Professional Poker Player" to "Startup Founder."

Links:

Ari Meisel:

• Leverage Virtual Assistants
• Twitter
• Books
• Youtube

Adrienne Rowsome:

• Watch and Subscribe to Adrienne's Twitch Channel
• Twitter
• Facebook

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 aspects of your life, and guided sessions for growing every aspect of your mindset.

The app is now available on iOS and Google Play, and you can learn all about it on their website >>> https://www.primedmind.com/

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• How Fedor stays ahead of the curve, even though he's "retired" down to 10% of his old volume.
• Why Fedor believes discipline is an essential skill for players of all talent levels.
• What you must to surpass opponents who started the game before you, and have a head start in skill level.
• A step-by-step guide to forming your poker "inner circle."
• What is this Primed Mind thing everyone is talking about?

Links:

Fedor Holz:

• Twitter
• Primed Mind

Adrienne Rowsome:

• Watch and Subscribe to Adrienne's Twitch Channel
• Twitter
• Facebook

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 able to win easily. This allowed him to vote out his only competition and win the show, and $150,000, by a 9-0 vote.

Even if you've never watched Big Brother, you'll still want to give this a listen, as Kevin lays out a road map for what it takes to accomplish those huge goals you have in life.

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• How Kevin's diligent study habits took his poker game to the next level and eventually allowed him to win Big Brother.
• What it's like to live in a film studio for 3 months with no privacy and a camera pointed at you for 24 hours a day.
• How using mediation in the house allowed him to overcome the sleep deprivation all the contestants were faced with.
• How Kevin's final table experience allowed him to stay calm in the final "heads up" competition for $150,000 and the win.
• The Non-TV friendly end-game strategy Kevin used to "break" Big Brother.

Links: Kevin Martin:

• Twitter
• YouTube
• Twitch.tv

Adrienne Rowsome:

• Watch and Subscribe to Adrienne's Twitch Channel
• Twitter
• Facebook

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 guest all need to hang out while the recordings download. There's always a great conversation during that time, so we decided it was a waste not to record it.

Usually, these conversations are only available to Academy members, but this week we'll be sharing the Afterthoughts from last week's episode with Matt Berkey as a sneak peak into the Academy.

For more info on all the other benefits just visit PokerMindCoachAcademy.com