Beyond the Grind with JNandez

Jared Tendler, MS, LMHC, Mental Game Expert

Jared Tendler, MS, LMHC, is a leading expert in how your mental game impacts performance. His clients include world champion poker players, several PGA Tour players, entrepreneurs and  institutional and independent financial traders. Jared holds a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and attained a license as a mental health counselor. With over 16 years of experience coaching people from around the world and in multiple arenas, his straightforward and logical approach has been proven to...

Karlen 'Karlencho' Aladzjan, Twitch Streamer

Jonas 'Liqqa' Gjelstad, High Stakes PLO and Sports Bettor

In this episode of Beyond The Grind I speak with long time high stakes PLO player and Sports Bettor Jonas 'Liqqa' Gjelstad.  We discuss a variety of different topics such as moving abroad and playing poker, transitioning from Heads Up to 6 max, the differences of understanding between poker players and sports bettors when it comes to areas such as variance, EV and bankroll management. As well as discussing moving into new opportunities away from poker, advice to poker players looking for ne...

Karlen 'Karlencho' Aladzjan

Jonathan 'Apestyles' Van Fleet, High Stakes MTT Legend

In this episode of Beyond The Grind we're joined by long time high stakes MTT legend Apestyles who's amassed over $4,000,000 in profit.  We discussed a variety of different topics from recent huge poker scores, getting started in poker and turning it into a profession, the aftermath of Black Friday in 2011 to then playing in $25k tournaments online. As well as several other topics such as how to help poker sites improve their games as well as the security, how you can improve as a poker pla...

Michiel 'Easterdamnz' Van Elsacker, Twitch streamer and GG Squad

In this episode of Beyond The Grind i'm joined by Twitch Streamer and fellow GG Squad member Easterdamnz. We discuss a variety of different topics from first telling friends and family about playing poker, how he went from twitch troll to successful twitch streamer. As well as dealing with being in the spotlight after putting yourself out there when it comes to areas such as negativity and hate, before moving on to looking at life beyond the grind such as building relationships and goals fo...

Runchucks, Twitch streamer and mid-high stakes PLO player

In our third episode of the Beyond The Grind podcast we are joined by @Runchuks Poker. We discuss a variety of different topics such as creating a social media presence after avoiding it for so long, figuring out exactly the path you want to take in life and when you can start to figure this out. As well as discussing, the thought of becoming lost in life if you were to lose poker as a job/hobby,  the process he took in becoming a professional poker player as well as how informed his famil...

Michael Acevedo, author of "Modern Poker Theory"

In today's episode of Beyond The Grind i'm joined by Michael Acevedo the author of 'Modern Poker Theory: Building an unbeatable strategy based on GTO principles'. In this episode we discuss a variety of topics such as how he got started in poker, putting in the effort and motivating yourself to study, as well as what made him decide to write his book. We also dive deeper in to some strategical based topics such as using solvers and what people are doing wrong when using them.  We then disc...

Jordan 'bigbluffzinc' Drummond, BBZ Poker founder and CEO

In our first episode of the brand new Beyond The Grind Podcast we are joined by Jordan 'BigBluffZinc' Drummond. In this podcast we discuss a variety of topics, both poker and non poker related, such as, how he found poker, what was he doing prior to poker, his upbringing and life as a father. We also discussed  topics such as focusing on GTO, turning your poker into a business, poker coaching, what to do in 2020 to be a successful poker player and much more! I hope you all enjoy this pod...