Patrick Leonard 🫡

[Patrick Leonard 🫡 @padspoker]

2010-2020 was the best time of my life running bitB

2020-2023 I did a private project mentoring/coaching 10 midstakes guys to highstakes. We won EPTs, WCOOPs, SCOOPs basically everything and it was so rewarding

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[Patrick Leonard 🫡 @padspoker]

@AlexPwndidi There are all freezeouts/uniques and usually with really good structures too.

[Patrick Leonard 🫡 @padspoker]

Really interesting direction that the brand is going, a lot of big buy in, small high roller turbos. We’re going to see a big change in who has a lot of bracelets moving forward. 40 man PLO 25k turbo (with I assume reentry? so 20ish projected runners? 40 man 50k PLO, 40 man PLO/NLH mix 25ks.

Negreanu is going to be all time bracelet leader very quickly which I assume the brand wants and then a lot of the wizards like Mararthur & Eelis will overtake the guys who have grinded during the summers over the last decade or so.

The majority are priced out now, the buy ins are just so high that without backing or sponsorship you just can’t really play, the same 25 or so guys will play these events reentering and basically guaranteeing bracelets between eachother. I’m not sure how great that is for poker and for the brand though? But I’m sure they’ve considered all of the above.

Really interesting.

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[Patrick Leonard 🫡 @padspoker]

Depends if the field sizes are going to be similar to the guarantees or if they smash them and how aggressive the late reg stuff is.

If he’s 2 entries of every 40 runner field (and he’s really good and he tries to win rather than icm ladder) then I think he wins 8% of the time in these. Then all the other 10k mixes etc during wsop, I think he should project to quite a bit over 2/year.

Foxen/Lonis/Mararthur also will fly I think. All amazing, all try and win and all play both games.

[Patrick Leonard 🫡 @padspoker]

I think one of the most important skills in poker is the skill of simplifying.

When you're studying, you have unlimited time. You can look at outputs, compare sizings, study frequencies and understand exactly why a strategy looks the way it does.

Then Sunday comes.

You have 20 seconds, 12 tables and somebody has done something slightly different from what you studied.

In that moment, your job isn't to remember the strategy.

Your job is to create a strategy.

I think of poker strategy a little bit like painting.

You have different colours and textures available to you. Your value hands, your bluffs, your sizings, your frequencies, your blockers, your opponent's tendencies.

Your job is to take what's in front of you and paint a picture that makes sense.

Maybe I decide this spot wants a big bet.
Okay, what are my strongest value hands?

What worse hands am I actually trying to get called by?

If those are my value bets, which bluffs naturally go alongside them?

Which hands don't want to bet?

Suddenly I've created a strategy.

It might not be the perfect strategy. If I put the spot into a solver afterwards, maybe it uses 67% instead of 100%. Maybe one bluff I chose prefers checking. Maybe I've missed an entire category of hands.

That's okay.

Because the alternative is trying to recreate somebody else's painting from memory.
You vaguely remember what it looked like.

There was some red over here, some blue over there, this hand bet 70% of the time, that hand mixed, this combo checked...

But you'll never recreate the whole painting.

And when one part of the spot changes, stack size, position, sizing, opponent, suddenly the picture you're trying to remember doesn't even exist anymore.

This is where I think some players get lost studying poker.

They become incredibly good at remembering solutions and not necessarily good at building strategies.

I'd much rather somebody understand why we're betting and construct a simple, logical strategy themselves than perfectly remember 15 frequencies from a sim they studied three weeks ago.

The best simplification isn't making poker less sophisticated.

It's understanding something complicated well enough that you can rebuild it simply.

Don't try to remember the painting.

Learn what the colours do, then paint your own.

[Patrick Leonard 🫡 @padspoker]

I think one of the most important skills you can have in poker is being really good at changing your mind.

Poker players spend so much time trying to be right.

We debate hands, defend our lines, argue about strategies and sometimes attach way too much of our ego to whether our original opinion was correct.

But I think the best players I've been around are almost the opposite.

They can passionately believe something on Monday, see better evidence on Tuesday and by Wednesday they've completely abandoned the idea.

No ego. No trying to justify why they were kind of right. No moving the goalposts.
Just "yeah, I was wrong."

I think that's an incredibly powerful skill.
Poker changes so quickly and there's so much information that it's almost impossible for everything you believe today to still be correct in a few years.

I've had strategies that I was absolutely convinced were good, probably taught them to other people with huge conviction, and then six months later realised I was completely wrong.

I don't think that's embarrassing. I actually think being able to do that is one of the reasons I've managed to keep improving.

The dangerous player isn't the one who gets things wrong.

Everybody gets things wrong.

The dangerous player is the one who needs to keep being right after the evidence has changed.

Your job isn't to defend the player you were yesterday. Your job is to make the player you are tomorrow better.

So have conviction in what you believe. Argue your side. Try to prove it. Challenge other people's ideas.

But when somebody shows you something better, don't fight to protect your old opinion.

Steal theirs.

Being wrong for one day costs you nothing.
Being too stubborn to change your mind can cost you years.

[Patrick Leonard 🫡 @padspoker]

@dklappin Great news! Excited for WCOOP and hopefully bigger guarantees, lower late reg periods and less reentires.

Will be there in September for my 15th in a row 🫡

Congrats!

[Patrick Leonard 🫡 @padspoker]

@Salle7De Is this real? Why are you playing Doug on coin?

Fascinating if real. Will Bobby be breaking it all down.

Good luck to both!

[Patrick Leonard 🫡 @padspoker]

@IGTreal Nooooooooo

[Patrick Leonard 🫡 @padspoker]

Kinda nuts, we never expected to be so big so quickly. We’re going to hit our unique player cap. If you were waiting to max then jump in now. We’re so thankful for the support and we’re going to continue building better and bigger than you can imagine.

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For the first time ever, CoinMillion is approaching its unique player cap💯

- Once reached, new players will no longer be able to enter the event.
- Existing players can continue to play and re-enter as normal.

Honestly, we didn’t expect to see this happen, and it’s a pretty special moment for CoinPoker.
A massive thank you to everyone who has jumped in, played, shared, and supported CoinMillion.
You’re the reason we’re here.
If you haven’t entered yet, now might be a good time. 📷

[Patrick Leonard 🫡 @padspoker]

#1

[MattBlagg @MattBlagg]

CoinPoker is starting to give everyone else a run for their money in the MTT department. Tomorrow is going to be a long day. I'll be playing this plus other stuff on Coin then I'll be playing the American sites later in the day. Never miss a Sunday! :)

[Patrick Leonard 🫡 @padspoker]

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[Hayden Hetland @bigredpokerr]

Patrick,

I just wanted to say thank you for everything you did for Lucas during this Main Event run. I know everyone is going to remember the win, but most people will never see how much work went on behind the scenes to help make it happen.

The time you put in, the strategy, the conversations, and just always being there for him made a huge difference. Having someone like you in his corner gave him the best chance to succeed, and I know he couldn’t have asked for a better coach.

Watching one of my best friends accomplish something we’ve all dreamed about was one of the coolest moments of my life, and I’m really grateful you were such a big part of it. I honestly can’t thank you enough for everything you did for him.

I really appreciate you, @padspoker . Thank you.
—Hayden

[Patrick Leonard 🫡 @padspoker]

His family and friends were there for every second even when they couldn't see the action or not even understand what's going on. Lucas won today because his parents made him the kid that he is and his friends picked him up when things didn't go so well for him early in his career. I'd never take their space on this photo.

Every time I look up to the banner in horseshoe I'm going to smile though. The best of people. The best of times.

[Patrick Leonard 🫡 @padspoker]

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[Patrick Leonard 🫡 @padspoker]

SB 3b/4bjam day 1 like a savage every spot and deservedly had the title of playing incredibly tough and fierce pre flop and we had also rejammed a2o in bb day before in same set up. feel like anything that wants to flat most likely wants to jam/3bf pre flop so its tough to think what call/folds? KJo? KTo? QJo? Maybe, but also dangerous flats when we are in BB with piles.

we also get to play in position vs him post and he never folds a better hand than 77, we can even end up bluffing AA/KK/QQ (i didnt think hed trap as wide as TT) on some occasional runouts if think hes super condensed to those hands.

i liked tt calling flop+turn, we dont have so much Ax really in perceived land and ATs is one of those that probably decide to go post so double blocking them is nice and unblocking 7x (T7o probably folds pre flop) river once we're counterfitted donk jamming vs 7x could be nice idea, but theres only really j7/q7 to target (but might be prime ones he uses. if you know BB has 77 pre flop then donk jamming becomes even more attractive imo.

[Patrick Leonard 🫡 @padspoker]

@themouthmatusow We haven't been dealt a good hand yet! I think in tournaments that's sometimes a good thing though?

Feel like there's been so few coolers this year? Last years FT took 78 hands!

We're upto hand 160 and they're 75bbs deep HU!

[Patrick Leonard 🫡 @padspoker]

Also I've been around a lot of people in poker from all ages, backgrounds etc and this kids family and his friends are the nicest I've seen.

His Dad is humble and wouldn't steal the spotlight, but he has a 5 star Dad & family that has helped make him into the most mature, soft, loving yet fun natured 22 year old you will find. It's almost unfair how good he naturally is at poker in combination with how much money he's going to make with combination of what good choices he's going to make.

He is THE TRUTH.

[Patrick Leonard 🫡 @padspoker]

Soembody spoke about you at a table this year and I remember thinking “wow that’s my new goal, to be spoken about like that”

Something in poker and I guess in life that demonstrates respect is how you’re spoken about when you’re not in the room and trust me you’re well beyond “being in the conversation” you are the conversation. You’re HOF in any form of criteria.

[Patrick Leonard 🫡 @padspoker]

@JoshuaArieh @WSOP Give them 3 months!