We got into a huge, unnecessary flip, and we both stood up. “I was playing my first ever $25k, and there was a guy who was like a gangster, from a country I won’t name. So then, I had two very contrasting styles and I think both were dangerous.” What’s the dumbest thing you’ve seen or done at the poker table? I was folding queens and he was three-betting T-3 offsuit! That opened my eyes to a new crazy style. I thought he was just posturing, and then he three-bet. I saw him peel back his cards, and he had T-3 offsuit.

I was playing $20 tournaments at the time, and there was a GUKPT in town. So I’d just look at one card because I didn’t want to get tempted by AQ-suited or pocket queens. I used to play in the Grosvenor Casino in Newcastle, and if I looked at one queen under the gun, I wouldn’t even look at my second card-my range UTG was kings plus. Maybe I should.” What piece of strategy advice did you get when you first started playing that you wish you had ignored? A few years ago, I used to message people and tell them something I was grateful for that they’d done. I also try to do something positive, as well. Even playing live, I won’t eat until I’ve busted out. One thing I always do is never eat until I’ve finished playing. I’m playing a lot earlier, so I try to get outside, literally just to get 10 minutes of fresh air and get a coffee. Now I play from 9am in Vancouver until 5pm. I used to play at 6pm in England until 2am. What’s one bit of essential prep you do before a big tournament or cash game session?

You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who loves the online grind as much as he does. He’s the co-founder of bitB, an “elite coaching for profit community,” along with Samuel Vousden and Tomi Brouk, and is part of the Run It Once crew with an MTT course titled Pads on Pads. This year, Leonard pipped Benny Glaser to the overall WCOOP Player of the Series, winning four titles along the way, taking his total to 16 COOPs overall. His Instagram account records his total career winnings as $28 million. He’s won close to $3 million in live tournaments, but many multiples of that online. Patrick Leonard is one of the most respected poker players in the game.

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