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The rollercoaster ride we call poker is thrilling and gratifying, while also unnerving and jolty. But it doesn’t have to be like that. You can have the highs without the lows, and I can help you get there.

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“Elements of Poker” is a breath of fresh air Angelo has created a book that needs no deciphering. He manages to touch on subjects that no other poker books are covering and he does so in an enjoyable manner.

Maybe your pain comes from trepidation in your betting. Or a short tilt fuse. Or a self-deflating bankroll. Or none of these. Maybe you’re mentally steady. You don’t have tilt seizures or blowups. But you do endure agitations that throw you off your optimal game: I’m talking about impatience, and boredom, and any form of dissatisfaction.

The range of pain is wide. And it all costs us money.

I offer live coaching by the day, and video coaching by the half-hour. This page is about video coaching. To read about live coaching in Vegas, click here.

Unlike big-buy-in coaching programs, here we start with a test drive. Sessions are 30-minutes long and cost $100. (The first call is 45 minutes to allow for some get-acquainted time.)

When you schedule a call, you also set the agenda. There’s a place for you to tell me as much as you want about yourself and what’s on your mind. This allows us to aim directly at known problem areas when we talk. A lot good things can come to light during our calls, because of our preparation. And if you’re a note-taking type, check this out: You can record the call, meaning when we talk, we just talk, and then later you can watch a movie of our call and take your notes then.

I’ve had many successful long-range client relationships, and that could happen with us. Or maybe you have a few questions that you want answers to and we never talk again. Or something in between. All options are made easy by the half-hour, no-commitment billing.

Here’s a page about my playing and coaching history.

And here are some of the topics we could tackle:

Performance optimization

Painless quitting

Going pro

Plugging betting leaks (more on this below)

Plugging tilt leaks (steaming tilt, annoyed tilt, injustice tilt, revenge tilt, too-aggressive tilt, too-passive tilt, playing too high tilt, playing too long tilt, playing too tired tilt, entitlement tilt, underfunded tilt, overfunded tilt, shame tilt, distracted tilt, abundance tilt, scared tilt, envy tilt, etc.)

Anything and everything having to do with live poker (table presence, table talk, ethics, reading players, being unreadable, when to quit, how to be imperturbable and as a result, feared.)

Plugging health leaks (I can help you make adjustments toward better eating, better sleeping, and consistent exercise.)

Pain reduction

To that last point…

I know first hand the power of painless poker because of my own transformation from a professional player who was either doped or depressed, to a professional player with refined skills and limitless patience. During my 15 years of coaching every type of player − from passionate recreationals to top-flight pros − I have seen big change happen when steady effort meets single purpose.

And then of course, there’s the game itself, and learning how to play better than the other guy…

My expertise is in no-limit hold’em and limit hold’em, in one venue: live cash games. If you play exclusively online or tournaments, or if you don’t play hold’em, then I won’t be offering strategy advice. But I can help with other things − such as tilt reduction and life balance − no matter what form of poker you play.

If we work on strategy, I’ll ask you to send me three hands you played, and I will make notes before we talk. Or you can just show up and tell me the hands. Fair warning: When you bring hands to review, the conversation could turn into an inquisition as I root around searching for leaks in your game, strategic and mental.

I will keep a file of notes from our calls so that no matter how much time goes by I will be able to review our history before each conversation. Each call will end with a review of whatever action items we came up with, so that you can take them immediately into your game (or life).

We will meet in cyberspace using the Zoom platform. (Writing that sentence made me feel like a Jetson.) It’s easy to record the call if you like.

My first book, Elements of Poker, still gets big love from the pokerverse. To align with where I’m coming from before we talk, read the first 80 pages of Elements, and the last 25.

On the calendar below, select a date, choose a time, send money, and we’re good to go. You’ll receive an email with a link to my meeting room at Zoom. To join the meeting, click the link at our appointed time. See you there!

(If the posted times don’t work for you, just email me at tommy@tommyangelo.com and we’ll set something up.)

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Tommy Angelo
Residence	Oakland, California
Born	August 25, 1958 (age 62) Columbus, Ohio
Information accurate as of 27 September 2016.

Tommy Angelo (born August 25, 1958) is an Oakland, California professional poker player, writer, and coach. Angelo was a career musician in the 1980s, performing rock and country on drums and piano. In 1990, he became a full-time professional poker player.^{[citation needed]} Since then has since written 150 magazine articles, written and produced 60 poker-training videos, and written and published four books on poker.

Writer[edit]

Angelo has written and self-published five books. Four of them are about poker. The fifth is about meditation.

On December 13, 2007, Tommy release his first book, Elements of Poker.^[1]

On May 1, 2011, Tommy released his second book, A Rubber Band Story and Other Poker Tales.^[2]

On March 14, 2017, Tommy released his third book, Painless Poker.^[3]

On October 23, 2018, Tommy released his fourth book, Waiting for Straighters^[4]

On February 11, 2019, Tommy released his fifth book, Dailyness: How to Sustain a Meditation Practice.

Angelo has written articles for Poker Digest Magazine, PokerPages.com, Bluff Magazine,^[5] and PokerNews.com magazine.^[6]

Movies[edit]

Angelo was featured in the 2019 documentary film by Michael Bailey called For Love or Money: A Poker Documentary.

In 2019, Angelo partnered with Lee Jones to make YouTube videos for poker players. The series is called PokerSimple.

In 2020, Angelo launched the PokerWords video series at the Tommy Angelo YouTube channel.

Poker coach[edit]

Since 2003, Angelo has offered one-on-on poker coaching called The T i l t l e s s Program. He has coached many top-flight poker players, including Jay Rosenkrantz, Phil Galfond, and David Benefield.^[7] In 2018, Angelo converted his coaching model to video calls.

With Wayne Lively and Rob Cole, Angelo produced an eight-episode poker-coaching video series titled The Eightfold Path to Poker Enlightenment (EPTPE) that focuses on the role of psychology for professional poker players. The title of the series derives from one of the principal teachings of the Buddha, the Eightfold Path. EPTPE was released during the summer of 2009 at DeucesCracked.^[8]

In 2015, Tommy made ten videos for the poker training site, Run It Once. His videos focus on mental game topics for professi

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