Dr. Tricia Cardner is a peak performance strategist who provides coaching and consulting to some of today’s biggest names in poker, sport and business by teaching them how to use psychology to gain an edge over their competition. After becoming enamored with the game of poker, she conducted research on the psychological traits of elite tournament poker players for her doctoral dissertation called Peak Poker Performance: A Qualitative Case Study. She combined her research and her experience playing MTTs into an upper-division university course on the psychology of poker.  She is the author of Positive Poker which features commentary by Jonathan Little. Positive Poker, A Modern Psychological Approach to Mastering Your Mental Game, combines her years of psychological research, clinical experience and poker playing into one place. She is a co-author on Excelling at No-Limit Hold’em, and her chapter focuses on mental toughness for poker players. She is currently developing an online Psychology of Poker course to further help poker players improve their mental games. You can follow her on Twitter @DrTriciaCardner Website: www.DrTriciaCardner.com