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Elements of Poker will teach you all of this and much more. Tommy Angelo is a top tier poker coach, poker writer, and philosopher. Humorous and provocative, Elements of Poker turns conventional poker wisdom inside-out. Then Tommy Angelo popped in with “I can tell you the best way to play two kings. Decide in advance that no matter what happens, you won’t go on tilt!” Insights like that are what drove the popularity of Angelo’s first book, Elements of Poker, a tome highly regarded for its fresh and practical perspectives.

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 100 magazine articles, written and produced 18 poker training videos, and written and published three 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^[20]

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.

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]

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 became a coach for the poker training site, Run It Once. His videos focus on mental game topics for professional poker players.^[9]

In 2018, Angelo began coaching low-stakes players on poker strategy.

Musician[edit]

Tommy plays drums, piano, guitar, and bass, and produces his own music, sometimes with a band called Just Another Band. In 1980, Tommy self-released the LP A Work of Aardvark under the name 'Tom Angelo'.^[10] In 2001, he released a six track CD album of poker-related songs entitled I'm Running Bad. Tommy is also related to Willie Angelo a famous artist out of Denver, Colorado.

Podcast appearances[edit]

Angelo has appeared as a guest on these podcasts: TwoPlusTwo Pokercast,^[11]DeucePlays podcast with Bart Hanson of DeucesCracked,^[12] Pokercast.com,^[13] HouseofCardsRadio.com,^[14] ruKusradio.com,^[15] and Badugi All-Stars,^[16][17] ThinkingPoker.net,^[18] RedChipPoker.com,^[19] Poker Live Podcast with Joey Ingram,^[20] KristyArnett.com,^[21] TexasHoldemRadio.com,^[22] PokerMindCoach.com with Elliot Roe,^[23] HighRollerRadio.net,^[24] and PokerNews.com.^[25]

References[edit]

1. ^CNBC: Are you a ‘results-oriented’ investor? If so, you’re making a big mistake, says top poker thinker^{[verification needed]}
2. ^'Rubber Band Story'. Retrieved August 18, 2017.^{[verification needed]}
3. ^'Tommy Angelo Presents His New Book 'Painless Poker''. Retrieved August 18, 2017.^{[verification needed]}
4. ^results, search (October 23, 2018). Waiting for Straighters: A Preflop Experiment for No-Limit Holdem and Pot-Limit Omaha. Tommy Angelo.^{[verification needed]}
5. ^'Bluff Archives: Tommy Angelo'. Archived from the original on July 30, 2012. Retrieved May 28, 2010.^{[verification needed]}
6. ^'Articles by Tommy Angelo PokerNews'. www.pokernews.com. Retrieved April 21, 2017.^{[verification needed]}
7. ^'Tommy Angelo Q&A'. Archived from the original on September 9, 2012. Retrieved May 28, 2010.
8. ^Q&A with Tommy Angelo
9. ^'Tommy Angelo - Run It Once'. Runitonce.com.
10. ^'Original Songs and Renderings from The Eightfold Path to Poker Enlightenment'. Retrieved May 31, 2010.
11. ^'TwoPlusTwo PokerCast with guest Tommy Angelo'. Retrieved May 28, 2010.
12. ^'DeucePlays Podcast with guest Tommy Angelo'. Retrieved May 28, 2010.
13. ^'PokerCast.com'. Retrieved July 18, 2011.
14. ^'House of Cards Radio'. Retrieved July 18, 2011.
15. ^'ruKusradio.com'. Retrieved July 18, 2011.
16. ^'Badugi All-Stars - Guest: Tommy Angelo (Part 1)'.
17. ^'Badugi All-Stars - Guest: Tommy Angelo (Part 2)'.
18. ^'Episode 192: More Tommy Angelo – Thinking Poker'. www.thinkingpoker.net. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
19. ^'Painless Poker with Tommy Angelo | Red Chip Poker'. Red Chip Poker. April 17, 2017. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
20. ^joeingram1 (May 25, 2016), Guest Tommy Angelo : Poker Life Podcast, retrieved April 21, 2017
21. ^'Drunk WTF Moment to Zen with Tommy Angelo – Kristy Arnett'. Kristy Arnett. October 5, 2016. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
22. ^'Wade Andrews | Texas Holdem Radio | March 2017'. Archived from the original on April 22, 2017.
23. ^'Episode 59 – Tommy Angelo on Playing Painless Poker | Poker Mind Coach'. www.pokermindcoach.com. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
24. ^HighRollerRadioTV (March 27, 2017), Are You Playing Painless Poker? 'The Pain is Unique!' Tommy Angelo Q&A, retrieved April 21, 2017
25. ^'PokerNews Podcast Episode 437: Painless Poker with Tommy Angelo'. Retrieved April 21, 2017.

External links[edit]

Tommy Angelo's 2007 Elements of Poker is already a classic. After decades of experience as a player and a coach, Angelo identified 144 of poker's 'elements' — stuff like A-Game, Tilt, Bankroll, Position, Running Good and Running Bad, Awareness, and much more. Witty and wise, stern and compassionate, Angelo's book is a reassuring guide for a challenging game.

Angelo recently revised and narrated an audiobook version of Elements. At seven hours and seventeen minutes, there's plenty of valuable material to (re)discover. Despite the absence of conceptual charts and illustrations — all available on his website — the audiobook is as accessible and relevant as ever.

As Angelo's readers already well know, Elements of Poker is less about playing poker than about how to be a poker player.

Mental Game and Performance

Larry Phillips's Zen and the Art of Poker, Jared Tendler's The Mental Game of Poker, Fedor Holz's Primed Mind app, Elliot Roe's The Mindset Advantage podcast — these are only a few resources within a vast area called 'the mental game.' In a way, Tommy Angelo is the mental game's kindly godfather. He's indispensable. And so is his concept of reciprocality.

'In the world of reciprocality,' Angelo says, 'it's not what you do that matters most, and it's not what they do. It's both. Reciprocality is any difference between you and your opponents that affects your bottom line. Reciprocality says that when you and your opponents would do the same thing in a given situation, no money moves, and when you do something different, it does.'

Here's an example of a reciprocal analysis. Someone raises under the gun, and you reraise from the big blind with two aces. Your opponent reraises. You shove. Your opponent calls with two queens, and you win a big pot. Now that this hypothetical hand is over, trade places with your opponent. Imagine how you'd play two queens in his position. Imagine how he'd play two aces in your position. Then compare the imagined result to what actually happened, and you'll a sense of who really won the hand, in theory.

Reciprocality is less a strategy than a mindset, an attempt to cultivate your best self. There's Quitting Reciprocality (Element #8), Tilt Reciprocality (#23), Betting Reciprocality (#27), Position Reciprocality (#30), and Information Reciprocality (#53). Reciprocality extends beyond the felt, as well, to wellness and routine.

The ultimate goal is to slay tilt, play painless poker, and achieve a condition that Angelo calls 'bliscipline' — namely, 'when you are at the table and you are so totally in control of yourself and so totally at peace in the situation that no matter what happens next, you'll still have plenty of resolve in reserve.

Ethics and Etiquette

You're at the showdown. Action is on the big blind to either show or muck his hand. But he does neither. What should you do?

'When a player hesitates during his turn at the showdown,' Angelo says, 'it creates a space that exists outside the natural order of things, and therefore outside the rules. This is where the fastroll lives, in the land of ethics and etiquette, where the floorman has no jurisdiction.'

The fastroll — when a player shows his hand out of turn on purpose — is a courtesy. It's never wrong to fastroll. In certain situations, though, it can be deemed to be very wrong not to fastroll. But when? It depends.

Much of poker lives, like the fastroll, in the land of ethics and etiquette. Slowfolding, fastgrabbing, and fastrolling — all 'Tommyisms' Angelo coined — are only the beginning. When should you seat change? When should you show a bluff? When should you speak (or stay silent) during a hand? When should you correct a dealer's mistake? When should you call the floor?

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Instead of giving firm 'answers,' Angelo offers tentative advice. He accepts that poker, like life, is filled with unknowing. 'The main thing to realize,' Angelo says, 'is that no matter how good you get, you will always have a gray area. The gray is not part of you. It is part of the game.'

Metagame Strategy

You're about to enter a limit hold 'em game in which you must post a big blind to get a hand. This rule gives you two choices: (1) play your first hand from the natural big blind position, or (2) play your first hand from behind the button, after posting a big blind from there. Which way is better?

At first, Angelo posted from behind the button. He often found himself aggressively raising or reraising in order pressure out-of-position players or to make the blinds fold. 'Here I am reraising before the flop,' Angelo says, 'with some hand that I would have mucked without a memory had I not posted behind the button. When instead, I could have been sitting there in the blinds, comfortably cultivating a snug image that I would exploit later.'

The problem was that aggression caused instability and tilt. Angelo realized that the difference between starting in the big blind and posting behind was too huge for him to see. 'It's the difference between passive and aggressive,' he explains. 'It's the difference between tight and loose. It's the difference between jumping in and settling in. It's the difference between being afraid and being feared.' Now he patiently waits for the natural big blind.

Always thoughtful and attentive, Angelo considers other at-the-table topics as well such as when to chop, when to quit, when to seat change, how to check, how to shuffle chips, and even how to move chips from one seat to another. He also considers where to play, when to move up in stakes, how much cash to bring to the casino (your 'pocket bankroll'), and when to go pro. Nothing, it seems, escapes Angelo's consideration.

In-game Strategy

Action folds to you in the hijack, and — wait a minute. Why is the hijack called 'the hijack'? (It's another Tommyism, by the way.)

Okay, so you have eight-six suited in the hijack. What should you do?

With Element #111, Angelo presents the Universal Starting-Hand Chart, with which 'you can work on your A-game and your C-game at the same time,' Angelo says. 'By asking yourself where you should draw your starting-hand lines, you refine your A-game. And by deciding to fold certain hands in certain situations no matter what, you raise your C-level.'

Certain fundamentals, like a structured thought process or the value of position, never change. 'Acting last is like taking a drink of water,' Angelo says elsewhere. 'We don't have to understand why it's good for us to know that it is. And the benefits are unaffected by our understanding of them.'

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Position is so important that, for Angelo, it becomes one of two major characters in the book. With each appearance, readers come to appreciate position's charms and its value.

The other major character in Elements of Poker? 'It's you,' Angelo says. 'It's your individualism, and your path of poker from weak to strong, from fearful to fearless. This book is about trusting yourself and becoming your own player.'

Elements of Poker is newly available in audiobook form for Amazon, iTunes, or Audible. Learn more about EOP at Tommy Angelo’s website.

Ben Saxton is a teacher and a writer from upstate New York who has played small stakes poker, both live and online, since the early 2000s. Ben lives in New Orleans and covers poker on the Gulf Coast.

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