Tommy Angelo


Tommy Angelo 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. Since then has since written 100 magazine articles, written and produced 18 poker training videos, and written and published three books on poker.

Writer

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.
On May 1, 2011, Tommy released his second book, A Rubber Band Story and Other Poker Tales.
On March 14, 2017, Tommy released his third book, Painless Poker.
On October 23, 2018, Tommy released his fourth book, Waiting for Straighters
On February 11, 2019, Tommy released his fifth book, Dailyness: How to Sustain a Meditation Practicehttps://www.amazon.com/Dailyness-How-Sustain-Meditation-Practice-ebook-dp-B07N5CGLMT/dp/B07N5CGLMT/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=8&me=&qid=

Movies

Angelo was featured in the 2019 [documentary film by Michael Bailey called.
In 2019, Angelo partnered with Lee Jones to make YouTube videos for poker players. The series is called .

Poker coach

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.
With Wayne Lively and Rob Cole, Angelo produced an eight-episode poker-coaching video series titled The Eightfold Path to Poker Enlightenment 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.
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.
In 2018, Angelo began coaching low-stakes players on .

Musician

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". 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

Angelo has appeared as a guest on these podcasts: TwoPlusTwo Pokercast, DeucePlays podcast with Bart Hanson of DeucesCracked, Pokercast.com, HouseofCardsRadio.com, ruKusradio.com, and Badugi All-Stars, ThinkingPoker.net, RedChipPoker.com, Poker Live Podcast with Joey Ingram, KristyArnett.com, TexasHoldemRadio.com, PokerMindCoach.com with Elliot Roe, HighRollerRadio.net, and PokerNews.com.