MentalForge - #1 Poker Mental Performance Tracker

Hey everyone,

My friend and I are building Mentalforge because we felt that poker players had plenty of tools for strategy, but almost nothing to help them work on the mental side of their game in a structured way. Now we’re lookin for other players helping to improve it.

Our claim: The improvement infrastructure around poker is well developed on the technical side — solvers, hand history review, coaching, training sites. The mental side has basically nothing equivalent. You might consume content, maybe see a coach, but there's no consistent practice structure the way there is for technical work.

The gap we kept coming back to: most players know roughly when they're playing their best and worst, but almost nobody has data on *why*.
What their sleep was like.
Whether they were carrying stress into the session.
How strong the loss-recovery urge was before they sat down.
Which tilt patterns show up consistently across weeks of play.

That's exactly why we built MentalForge — it’s a short check-in before you play, a short review after, and over time a database of your own mental game you can actually visualize metrics and learn from.

A few things that drove the design: the questionnaire isn't just data collection — answering honestly before a session is itself a form of preparation. There's solid research behind this and we've built around it rather than just slapping a slider on "how tilted are you 1-10." Things we track:
cognitive clarity
emotional stability
pressure to recover losses
variance resilience
A/B/C game split
And more

The pre-session check-in takes 2 minutes. The post-session review takes 3-5. The value compounds as you log more sessions.

We're opening beta this week to a small group. We want players who will actually use it and tell us what's wrong — not people looking for a finished product.

If you're interested: Mentalforge.io

Happy to answer questions here — what the tool looks like, how the data is structured, the psychology behind the questions.