In chapter 11 of The Mental Game of Poker, Jared Tendler explains hate-losing tilt as anger that comes less from how you lose and more from the simple fact that you lost—because losing threatens things you care about far beyond the chips in the pot. Why This Tilt Is So Common in Poker Poker forces…
In chapter 10 of The Mental Game of Poker, Jared Tendler explains injustice tilt as anger fueled by a sense that poker outcomes are unfair—especially during stretches of bad beats, coolers, and repeated losses—and shows how it often comes from biased interpretation of results rather than the events themselves. What Injustice Tilt Feels Like This…
In chapter 9 of The Mental Game of Poker, Jared Tendler explains why “running bad” often creates the most destructive form of tilt, how it snowballs through accumulation, and how to build routines and thinking habits that keep you stable and playing well during long downswings. Why Running Bad Tilt Feels So Brutal Tendler describes…
In chapter 8 of The Mental Game of Poker, Jared Tendler breaks tilt down into something specific, solvable, and trackable by defining it as anger that leads to bad play, then showing how to diagnose its causes and systematically remove them. A Clear Definition of Tilt Tendler argues that the usual poker definition of tilt…
In chapter 7 of The Mental Game of Poker, Jared Tendler adds practical tools that support resolution and make long-term mental game improvement more measurable, organized, and effective. Tracking Your Mental Game Progress Because there is no software to track mindset the way poker software tracks hands, Tendler stresses the need to measure improvement manually….
In chapter 6 of The Mental Game of Poker, Jared Tendler explains Resolution as the long-term solution to mental game problems—the process of training correct thinking so deeply that emotional reactions no longer appear in the first place. What Resolution Means Resolution happens when the faulty beliefs or habits behind a mental game problem are…
In chapter 5 of The Mental Game of Poker, Jared Tendler presents Injecting Logic as a practical strategy for staying in control when emotions start to interfere with your play, and as a bridge toward fixing the deeper mental game problems that create those emotions. What “Injecting Logic” Means Players naturally talk to themselves when…
In chapter 4 of The Mental Game of Poker, Jared Tendler explains that emotion isn’t the enemy of good poker—misunderstood emotion is. He reframes feelings like anger, fear, low motivation, and overconfidence as signals that reveal what needs to be fixed in your mental approach. Emotion as a Symptom, Not the Root Cause Tendler argues…
In chapter 3 of The Mental Game of Poker, Jared Tendler introduces the Process Model, a simple structure that organizes everything you do as a poker player so that improvement becomes steady, measurable, and repeatable rather than random. What the Process Model Is The Process Model divides your entire poker life—single hands, sessions, months, and…
In chapter 2 of The Mental Game of Poker, Jared Tendler introduces the Inchworm model to explain how real, lasting improvement in both poker skill and mindset actually happens over time. The Range of Your Game Tendler starts by pointing out that every player has a range of performance. Some decisions are made at your…
