The Mental Game of Poker

Jared Tendler

THERE ARE TWO major areas of skill in poker: tactics and the mental game. Tactics are where poker players spend most of their time and include things such as odds, strategy, hand analysis, image, and metagame. The mental game is given much less attention, but it’s what sharpens, strengthens, and prepares the mind to function at its highest level. Most importantly, it allows all of the learning done on a tactical level to be implemented into a player’s game