How Damaging is Multitasking to Poker Players?
Check out this article Barry and I wrote for Pokerstrategy.com. Last week, industry-leading psychology magazine Pyschology Today ran a series of features on the destructive role that distraction and multitasking is playing on our lives. They found that attention problems were not only greatly reducing our ability to perform, they also were a contributory factor [...]
Why Do Good Players Go Broke?
Check out this article Barry and I wrote for Pokerstrategy.com. We often talk about prizes won on the poker circuit as being a “life-changing sum of money”. Indeed, a lot of first prizes in EPT/WPT/WSOP events would easily afford you a nice house, a nice car and enough change left over so you could avoid [...]
Improving Motivation
Check out this article I recently wrote for Pokerstrategy.com. Motivation is an essential ingredient for becoming a successful poker player, but it can often be one of the most elusive. It’s easy to find a short-burst of motivation after listening to an inspiring song, watching an iconic movie clip, or reading dramatic quote. Even a [...]
PokerNews: How to Achieve Your New Year’s Resolution
Written for PokerNews.com December 23, 2011 How To Achieve Your New Year’s Resolution Shortly after the calendar turns to 2012, thousands of people around the globe will begin a New Year’s resolution to lose weight, exercise more, or spend more time with family. Poker players are doing the same thing. They’re making poker goals to [...]
PokerNews: Strategy with Kristy Podast – Part 2
Kristy Arnett from Pokernews, brought me onto her podcast for a two-part interview. I discuss how to approach improving your mental game, the Adult Learning Model, and more. In part-two, Kristy shares how she put into practice the tips she learned from last week. Click Here to Listen
Achieve Your 2012 Goals
Check out this article I recently wrote for Pokerstrategy.com. Whether it is in the form of a New Year’s resolution, or simply looking ahead to 2012, now is the time to begin setting goals for the next 12 months. The best way to do that is to think back to where your game was a [...]
Treating Poker Like a Sport
Open publication – Free publishing – More mental game Treating Poker Like a Sport The poker climate is getting tougher, there’s no doubt about it. Game selection is now essential if you want to maintain a stable winrate and knowing your push/ fold ranges from your PSR (pot to stack ratio) is a must. Whether [...]
PokerNews: Strategy with Kristy Podcast – Part 1
Kristy Arnett from Pokernews, brought me onto her podcast for a two-part interview. I discuss how to approach improving your mental game, the Adult Learning Model, and more. Click Here to Listen
WPT Mag: Returning to Poker
September 2011, WPT Magazine Column Open publication – Free publishing – More poker
You Need Rest
World Poker Tour Magazine, Issue 92 You Need Rest To Be The Best If you want to reach your peak mental performance you need to take regular breaks. Jared Tendler explains why rest is such a key factor in poker. Poker players often get caught up in their hourly win rate or their $$ per [...]
WSOP Prep: FOCUS
World Poker Tour Magazine, Issue 92 WSOP Preparation: Focus, Focus, Focus For many players, especially those from an online background, the experience of playing poker for 15 hours straight is a daunting task and one that can put a strain on your skills. This month Jared Tendler explains how to stay focused and maintain your [...]
Preparing for the WSOP: Part 2
Posted On PartyPoker’s Blog When You Arrive It is very easy to get caught up in the Las Vegas lifestyle, since every day there is an opportunity to go out and party. There is nothing wrong with having a great time in Vegas, in fact if you cut yourself off from it completely, you might [...]
Successfully Moving Up in Stakes: Part 2
Posted On PartyPoker’s Blog Making a leap up to a higher limit a profitable one, takes more than poker skill and a big enough bankroll. The mental side of moving up in stakes is just as important. My last article, introduced two common mistakes players make, here are three more: Placing Too Much Importance on [...]
Don’t Think, Just Do It
World Poker Tour Magazine, Issue 91 Poker skill is entirely about making quality decisions. In the long run in poker, the player who consistently makes the best decisions comes out on top. While this fact is obvious, players generally fail to understand the decision making process. Decision making is the most important thing you do [...]
Preparing for the WSOP: Part 1
Posted On PartyPoker’s Blog Of the thousands of players who compete in the WSOP main event, just a very small percentage of them are physically and mentally prepared for the gruelling task ahead of them. If things go well, you will be playing consecutive 16 hour days with little time to rest and reset your [...]
Black Friday Uncertainty [Pokernews]
Pokernews.com Mental-game coach Jared Tendler has spent the last few weeks helping poker players deal with the fear and uncertainty created by the events of Black Friday. With the dust beginning to settle from the DOJ bomb that went off a few weeks ago, players around the world, especially in the U.S., are trying to [...]
Getting to SuperNova Elite
I’ve successfully coached eight players (Including Dusty ‘Leatherass’ Schmidt) to the level of SuperNova Elite, as well as what you can do to get to SuperNova or SuperNova Elite yourselves. Black Friday may have derailed your attempts to make SN or SNE, but there’s a lot of info in here, that can help you put [...]
Successfully Moving Up in Stakes: Part 1
Posted On PartyPoker’s Blog Moving up to a higher stake is understandably difficult for a poker player. You are putting more money on the line and taking on more risk at the same time. The two most important factors in moving up to a new stake is having enough technical poker skill and a large [...]
Training Your Brain for Multi-tabling
Poker Pro Europe March 2011 Although some scoff when poker is referred to as a sport, there is little doubt that mental endurance is a huge part of the game. Live poker players have to concentrate hard for long periods of time, and for online players it has become the norm to spread your action [...]
Who’s Afraid of the Sharks
World Poker Tour Magazine, Issue 90 In my previous articles I’ve covered the major mental games issues that may be affecting your game, including tilt, confidence and motivation. In this article I’m going to explore the largely overlooked issue of fear. The general definition of tilt assumes that it is anything that causes you to [...]
Emotions Are Not The Problem
Poker Pro Europe February 2011 I’m very excited to start a new column with Poker Pro Europe magazine and thought it would be best to first let you know who I am and how my work is different from what you’ve heard about the “mental game.” I’m a mental game coach who has been working [...]
Take Control of Tilt: Part 4
From PartyPoker’s Blog Last time I gave you a strategy for dealing with your own tilt issues in real time, today I am going to talk about how to track your progress. Often when players are working on an issue like tilt they will try a strategy that works well in the short term but [...]
Old Dogs Can Learn New Bluffs
World Poker Tour Magazine, Issue 89 With the learning curve in poker becoming ever steeper, it can be tough keeping up with the latest trends. Even modern-day poker editors can find themselves languishing on the sidelines, while the young guns leave them stationary. This month I’m going to focus on how we actually learn as [...]
Take Control of Tilt: Part 3
From PartyPoker’s Blog In the last blog I told you about a strategy that can be used to help control tilt in real time. Included in that is the use of a statement to ‘Inject the Logic’ as a means of getting you thinking more clearly at a time when tilt starts affecting your thinking. [...]
Take Control of Tilt: Part 2
From PartyPoker’s Blog In my previous blog I narrowed the definition of tilt to playing bad because of anger and then introduced the tilt profile as a way to better understand your own patterns of tilt. Now let’s get into how to use your tilt profile to begin taking control of tilt. There are two [...]
Taking the Next Step
World Poker Tour Magazine, Issue 88 [Click to read PDF] Moving up the poker ladder not only means your skill on the felt has to improve, but your overall strategy for getting better as a player has to step up. Making the jump in stakes is not simply a matter of coping with the increased [...]
Staying Motivated
World Poker Tour Magazine, Issue 87 [Click to read PDF] Getting motivated to achieve all the goals you set out to achieve is easy when you first start out in the game, but once the game becomes a grind you can easily find yourself becoming demotivated and losing money. With his new book, The Mental [...]
Take Control of Tilt: Part 1
From PartyPoker’s Blog Tilt is one of the most misunderstood concepts in all of poker and a big reason why it is because it is defined too broadly. When someone plays bad you’ll often hear them say it was because they were simply on tilt, but without saying why. “I was playing ok, then I [...]
Dealing with Overconfidence
World Poker Tour Magazine, Issue 86 [Click to read PDF] A little confidence can go a long way but too much self-belief can have a devastating effect on your game. This month Jared Tendler turns his attention to a much misunderstood issue in the poker world. (Read More)
Controlling & Improving Tilt
World Poker Tour Magazine, Issue 85 [Click to read PDF] My first two articles narrowed down the definition of tilt, help you create a tilt profile, described the seven types of tilt, and provided a framework for you to begin controlling tilt at the table. This article is all about helping you take more control [...]
