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Jared Tendler is a mental game and performance coach who works with poker players alongside traders, golfers, and other elite performers. He wrote the widely read The Mental Game of Poker 1 and 2 on tilt, confidence, and emotional control, and coaches players on focus, motivation, and repeatable performance under pressure. His work fits anyone whose results swing more on emotion than on strategy.

Katie Stone offers private poker lessons through Octopi Poker for women, amateurs, and beginners who want an approachable way into the game. A longtime pro, LearnWPT instructor, and World Poker Tour commentator, she focuses on fundamentals, live-poker confidence, and study habits rather than solver-heavy theory. She's an ideal first coach for newer players, and also offers separate poker-industry consulting.

Lex Ligtenberg is a poker mindset coach listed with Ultimate Poker Coaching, with a background in sports and performance psychology. He works with tournament and live players on confidence, tilt control, and building sustainable performance routines around the game. His coaching is a fit for players whose technical game is solid but whose results suffer under pressure.

Lexy Gavin-Mather runs The Poker Accelerator, a structured training program for no-limit hold'em cash games and tournaments. Her material covers fundamentals, preflop strategy, exploitative play, live reads, and the mental game, built for low- and mid-stakes players who want a clear study path instead of scattered content. The offer is course-led, so it fits players looking for structure more than one-off private sessions.

Maria Ho coaches tournament players on live judgment, table awareness, and the mental game, the read-and-adjust skills solvers can't teach. A four-time WSOP Main Event "Last Woman Standing," WPT champion, and Women in Poker Hall of Famer, she's also one of the game's most recognizable broadcasters. Her coaching is a strong fit for live MTT players who want to sharpen in-the-moment decision-making and composure.

Mateo Pedro is a bilingual English- and Spanish-speaking poker coach listed with Ultimate Poker Coaching, with a long no-limit hold'em background across live and online cash games. His coaching centers on fundamentals, game selection, and the move from GTO baselines to exploitative play. He's a natural fit for cash players, including Spanish-speaking students who want coaching in their first language.

Pete Clarke is a no-limit hold'em cash-game coach offering one-to-one work through Carrot Corner. His coaching blends theory, solver study, exploitative adjustments, mental-game work, and structured support for players moving through low and mid stakes.

Will Givens coaches tournament players on MTT decision-making, hand reading, live table dynamics, and turning real hand histories into study plans. A WSOP bracelet winner with more than $3 million in live tournament earnings, he draws on a career spanning more than a decade. He's a strong fit for players who want to convert study into sharper decisions at the table.