Evolve your strategies | Patrick 'Pads1161' Leonard

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In episode 6 of the MOPP we chat with the number 1 ranked online tournament player in the world Patrick “Pads1161” Leonard. You will learn how his passion for the game, combined with his intense work ethic has allowed him to stay at the very top of the MTT world for the past 8 years.
00:00 - Introduction
03:31 - Patrick's passion and expectations for Newcastle United football club
05:20 - When football and sport first became apart of Patrick's life
07:11 - How Patrick built his endurance for high poker volume
11:06 - The early days of learning to beat his friends at poker, whilst not enjoying it
14:38 - Getting a job at PokerStrategy and becoming a winning player
20:50 - Building a bankroll and wanting to protect it
24:30 - The fear of going broke early in Patrick's career
28:50 - Moving to Hungry and going for SuperNova Elite
31:54 - Running good and doubling his bankroll in one weekend
33:45 - Having to decide between playing cash games or tournaments
38:20 - Transitioning to tournaments and becoming friends with Samuel "€urop€an" Vousden
40:50 - Creating the BitB dream team with €urop€an and Tomi “Elmerix” Brouk
42:40 - Becoming the No1 online tournament player in the world in 6 months
46:00 - The biggest difficulties Patrick had in his poker career
50:50 - A warning to taking strategy advice - even from other good players
53:26 - Putting your strategy into a solver to see if it’s “solver approved”
57:42 - Being the best version of yourself vs a bad version of someone else
1:03:00 - What drove Patrick to want to become the best MTT player in the world
1:06:26 - The fun of making a strategy and executing on it
1:10:20 - How it feels being back at the top of the PocketFives MTT rankings
1:14:08 - The quest to be accepted as a good live player
1:16:43 - Going on a heater in Vegas and winning $1.5 million in 10 days
1:19:10 - Feeling unhappy and empty after the big scores
1:27:10 - The tough decision to move on from BitB
1:33:08 - The unique approaches that allowed BitB to stay at the top for so long
1:43:50 - When Patrick tried to copy other great players and lost his own game
1:49:15 - Learning from players who put you in tough situations
1:52:50 - Why some players fail and others are successful in the same environment
1:55:30 - The two key metrics that will make you the most money in poker
1:58:15 - The key area of poker nobody works on improving
1:59:42 - Why Patrick thinks volume is so crucial to poker success
2:03:52 - What Patrick would do if he only had 3 hours per day to get better at poker
2:09:06 - The most important lesson poker has taught Patrick
2:13:02 - When Patrick and Adam used to race against each other
2:18:50 - Patrick's biggest goals going forward and what drives him
2:22:30 - Raw advice for those who are lacking motivation for poker
2:26:15 - What Patrick is currently working on to level up his strategy
2:32:30 - How Patrick prepares for peak performance during a series
2:37:12 - Rene and Adams key takeaways from the podcast
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[@SoyMuyFuerte247]

To be honest, one of the best podcast I've ever listened to and I will listen to it more than once for sure.

[@erkesurer4443]

"I'm gonna go to Hungray and start to play some small pots"😄😄 love it

[@Procastinatestoomuch]

I could listen to pads talk for a ridiculous amount of time. Man this podcast is so entertaining, interesting, and eye opening.

[@Lifter86]

One of the best poker podcast I’ve ever heard for a tournament player. Thank you pads

[@joomorrow]

Disagree with the talk about volume > winrate. It's only true in short term. But long terms, doubling the number of tables won't make you as much money as playing stakes 10 times higher, which you can only do with higher winrate, better understanding of the game. And I doubt you can think deeply about the game while auto piloting 20 tables. I guess it's different for Pads, because: - He's already playing the highest stakes online - He plays MTT, and it's much easier to play many tables of short stack full ring than many tables of deep stack short handed cash game against strong regs. - As he said, in MTT getting a lot of experience with how population plays, is probably more important than in cash game. Although for a novice, maybe it's gonna be hard to notice how population plays when he plays too many tables. But for up and coming players who want to think about long term, I think they should strive to play better poker, instead of trying to maximize their income through leader board rakeback grinding and stuffs. Other than that, great podcast, quite a lot of insightful thinking.

[@santiagoplante6447]

I wish more people were as nuanced as this response, great comment !!

[@ghostyff9183]

Well yeah it's quite obvious to play good poker. The point is when you have a strong foundational win rate, play as much volume as possible without affecting your play. Volume beats variance if you're a winning player.

[@bigDduble1]

I think his comment is true if and only if you're beating the games you're playing & have a solid foundation

[@shaakenbake]

Patrick is a beast, the professionalism he applies is nuts.

[@acehole7147]

Is there a reason this episode through until like ep15 aren't working on Spotify? Been trying to smash through these recently and suddenly this one onwards won't load 😭

[@TheRoyalAgent10]

Excellent content. Thanks for bringing Pads and letting him talk so openly about stuff

[@davidivichalvarado6656]

Thank you guys for this

[@sirbetsalot]

BIG POT PADS ! I hadn’t heard his origin story - incredible stuff

[@richardwest4507]

Interesting with Volume. I used to 32 table on Stars (low stakes SNGs/MTTS) using Table Ninja when it was available in US awhile back... A little later randomly ran into 3 of the top 10 players in the world on pocketfives at the time at a bar in Costa Rica and they said I need to really cut down my volume. Okay, actually Pads is talking about Understanding what other people do now... Observing. That's basically what they were getting at... I was on auto-shove/fold mode, and making profit, but not understanding the game at a deeper level. So --- I think once you have that theoretical background and deeper understanding, it's much easier to increase your volume; that whole Unconscious Competence Inch-Worm theory. Still as you go up in stakes, I'd drop a little volume in favor of focus and while learning/applying new concepts. Awesome Podcast Guys!

[@LastOfMe87]

Amazing guys ! Thanks a lot . CBTB ❤

[@Lilianattij]

Pads, didn’t know much about you before this. Big fan now

[@susymay7831]

I really like that you guys interview different winners 🏆!

[@savanahhh]

Very nice episode!!

[@vanja8870]

Great one I would love to see a podcast with Linus

[@MechanicsOfPoker]

haha, me 2

[@bennychua9932]

pads is the best smooth speaking poker english guy

[@martinmax7557]

Very nice podcast

[@Mikee_97]

Pretty top! 🔝

[@TobeHesse]

All the love all the power! Padsssyyyyy!!!...still no intro ? ^^^^

[@peanutboy0921]

Pads is the greatest mind in the game.

[@AT-in9ld]

can you put these on spotify and or apple podcasts please

[@marcovanes5089]

Hey man, just so you know all the podcast episodes can be found on Spotify and Apple. They get uploaded on the podcast platforms at the same time they go live on KZbin. I hope that helps.

[@bas4196]

From the 1st second I could here you are Dutch @Rene

[@MechanicsOfPoker]

Not trying to hide it either ;)

[@divided_and_conquered1854]

This was very interesting to me. I'd like to share my thoughts, but let it be known I mean no ill will. After listening to this entire podcast, my read is that this very talented young man suffers from insecurity intensely and that he is most certainly neurotic. He spoke about the inability to focus on one thing for a long time in school, but then talks about doing tens of thousands of hand histories. That right there shows he doesn't have a focus problem. It just means that school is so insufferable that a person could think that the problem is with himself. Most people _these days,_ *especially* young boys who don't adapt to the drudgery and meaninglessness of school get put on pharmaceutical drugs such as Adorol. To me, it's a CRIME to do that to a young man, or anyone, for that matter. Boys have a particularly difficult time when they are young being able to focus. It's something that needs to be honed incrementally. Boys are hands-on and need recreation time. Instead of realizing that the curricula out there are flawed, they blame the young boys. This is criminal. Also, when you add to that today's modern society with its cell phones, social media, and instant gratification, boys never get to learn PATIENCE as much as they once did. They develop short attention spans and have a hard time in social situations. Whether or not this young man was drugged as a boy I haven't the foggiest; but it still stands to reason that you don't blame the boy and then DRUG HIM, you put him in different situations for which he is better suited. This one-size-fits-all setup in modern schools (indoctrination and propaganda centers) is a complete disaster and it leads to young men feeling as if he is some kind of flawed reject, when the truth is that the damned schools are shit.

[@ghostyff9183]

My guy goes in depth and is admirably vulnerable about he poker journey. You turn the into kids in drugs. Chill mate

[@divided_and_conquered1854]

@@ghostyff9183 #1 - You OBVIOUSLY didn't read what I wrote since proper English is anathema to the illiterate masses of which you are a part. #2 - Even if you DID read what I wrote, you don't possess the basic mental acuity to process the information properly. #3 - When you learn and start speaking English, then maybe we can talk. Cheers.

[@Nick-bu2hr]

Lmao 🤣