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partypoker Ambassador Patrick Leonard is not just one of the most talented online poker players in the world, he is also one of the most respected. He regularly posts on Twitter illuminating threads about the state of the online poker industry, and the poker industry in general, whilst also maintaining several high profile results including a $1.61 million score earlier this year.
The 2016 World Poker Tour Prague Main Event champion proved to be one size too big for Leonard, as the Brit had to settle for a runner-up spot. Leonard took home $9,347, while Vasylchenko added. Patrick Leonard poker results, stats, photos, videos, news, magazine columns, blogs, Twitter, and more. Patrick Leonard: 'The partypoker MILLION – the best flighted tournament on the internet' For the last 3 years I've been with partypoker there have always been lots of changes to the schedule. Aug 22, 2020 partypoker Ambassador Patrick Leonard is not just one of the most talented online poker players in the world, he is also one of the most respected.
PokerNews sat down with Leonard to discuss the World Poker Tour World Online Championships that are currently taking place on partypoker, with Leonard sharing his thoughts on the various changes that have been made to the festival ready for the online felt.
WPT Structures are Key
Leonard says that the production and content around the World Poker Tour always drew him in as a spectator, but admits that he has never really played much of the WPT circuit. However, when he discovered that the World Online Championships were coming, he says he was excited.
'It's all about replicating that quality experience but on my favourite site,' said Leonard, who says that lots of effort has gone into the structure of every events in order to maintain the prestige associated with the WPT.
'You really get a lot of play for your money in these Championships events; we wanted them to feel really special and unique. They're very prestigious events that everyone wants to win.
'We've been qualifying larger numbers of players than I've seen any site do for this kind of buy in, so the games have been really good. Obviously the real names make it feel more like a live tournament too.'
partypoker have also reduced the number of re-entries allowed, with single re-entries meaning that pros are not firing too many bullets in events.
Big Names Players & Big Name Commentators
Leonard is also a huge proponent of the cards-up coverage available on the partypoker Twitch channel.
'It means you can follow the action from an interactive point of view and the pros that have been and will be commentating the final tables such as Kristen Bicknell and Jamie Kerstetter are really great to listen to.'
partypoker have seen some well-known players flock to the site in recent months for tournaments like the Poker Masters Online and the Super High Roller Bowl Online, so what does Leonard think the site does to set themselves apart and be able to attract these big names?
'partypoker set the standard for all sites in terms of bringing the live arena to the online felt with the Irish Open. It was a really quality festival and people realised from there they could get a similar feeling to their favourite live tournaments.'
READ MORE: Satellite-Winner Daniel Smyth Wins WPT World Online Championships Knockout Championship
Looking Ahead to the Mix-Max Tournaments
Leonard says his favourite tournament of the festival so far was the 6-Max Championship. He cashed, but says he didn't go 'super deep.'
'I prefer playing shorter handed so Mix Max, 7-max, 6-max are always more appealing to me than 8-max. So I'll be looking forward to playing the mix max tournaments coming up next week too. I'm very happy that partypoker basically never does nine-handed tournaments as I believe they should be retired!'
Event #4: $3,200 Mix-Max Championship comes with a $3,000,000 guarantee. Day 1 ends at the end of Level 18, with levels 25 minutes in length.
- Day 1a - Saturday, August 8th at 19:00 (BST)
- Day 1b - Sunday, August 9th at 19:00 (BST)
- Day 2 - Monday, August 10th at 19:00 (BST)
- Day 3 - Tuesday, August 11th at 19:00 (BST)
This event also has a Mini ($320 buy-in; $1,000,000 GTD) and Micro ($33, $300,000 GTD) edition making the WPT WOC accessible to players of any bankroll!
Pursuing WPT Success
Grand lotto live 4d. The prestige is not lost on Leonard in his pursuit of even more poker accolades.
'Winning a Championship Event would definitely feel prestigious,' he said. 'It's a field full of players from $1 satellite qualifiers to the best players in the world, so to win you have to adapt and adjust vs all different player types. You have to be able to play against fields like that, not just being able to play against top pros. To me that's what makes a great poker player.'
Play in the WPT World Online Championships on partypoker
In order to play in the WPT WOC you need to sign up for a partypoker account. Download partypoker via PokerNews and receive up to $30 worth of SPINS jackpot sit & go tickets when you make your first deposit.
Deposit $10 to receive $10 worth of free play, made up of:
Patrick Leonard - Team Partypoker
- Day 1 = 1 x $5 SPINS ticket + 5 x $0.25 SPINS tickets
- Day 2 = 5 x $0.25 SPINS tickets
- Day 4 = 5 x $0.25 SPINS tickets
- Day 6 = 5 x $0.25 SPINS tickets
Up your initial deposit to $20 and $30 worth of free play is yours, made up of:
- Day 1 = 1x $5 SPINS ticket + 5 x $1 SPINS tickets
- Day 2 = 1 x $5 SPINS tickes + 5x $1 SPINS tickets
- Day 4 = 4 x $1 SPINS tickets
- Day 5 = 2 x $3 SPINS tickets
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Online poker may be enjoying an unprecedented boost these days as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but partypoker ambassador Patrick Leonard thinks the industry could end up facing a massive financial crash.
Leonard made the comments on Twitter after carefully observing what's currently unfolding in the MTT scene, which he says is slowly destroying online poker.
The British poker pro pointed out that while the industry is running high at the moment, forcing some changes in the way things are being run, major operators should consider far-reaching repercussions as a result of their decisions.
Leonard is particularly hitting out at the present popularity of unlimited re-entries, which according to him is killing the game.
Tournaments that previously attracted huge fields are now overlaying, because players nowadays tend to get stuck on specific tournaments with 'artificially' formed prize-pools generated by unlimited re-entries. He cited PokerStars‘ $530 Stars Marathon as an example, a tournament that used to draw more than 200 players easily meeting the guarantee. But in the middle of the current lockdown online boom, the tournament has been coming short of the required numbers.
It used to get 200+ runners in February (I won it with 210 in its first week 🌞 and it rightfully grew) during covid you'd think it would get bigger? Well yesterday, 100k gte overlayed by 40+ players even with a last minute 30 player surge. Money is running out and quickly.
— Patrick Leonard (@padspoker) May 11, 2020
Leonard believes this is the root of the problem. The oversaturated tournament schedules these days reflect the current mindset of major operators – they're more focused on quantity rather than quality, and this needs to change for a more sustainable future. When players become unable to spread their investments, their finances are at risk.
Solutions On Offer
The partypoker ambassador said the big poker rooms have two options today – they can cut back on their MTT offerings, put more weight on quality and make this current boom beneficial to the industry in the long term, or go towards the unlimited re-entry route and ultimately deal with financial crisis.
The leading sites such as GGPoker are actually taking advantage of option number 2 and Leonard isn't happy about it. This is despite the fact that the staking stable he co-founded is actually benefiting from the current MTT scenario.
He is calling for a united approach between major brands and their ambassadors to turn things around and look for better ways to save the future of online poker. Instead of putting out unlimited re-entries, Leonard suggests single re-entry tournaments or freezeouts, something that partypoker boss Rob Yong also agrees to.
In fact, the Dusk Till Dawn owner also came up with his own recommendations on Twitter, tagging rivals PokerStars, GGPoker, 888poker and Americas Cardroom. Yong said the major sites can agree to offer single re-entry in any MTT with late registrations limited to 20 BBs, and no rake deducted on re-entries.
Just read @padsPokerSquad concern about re-entries & late reg to 5-10BBs.
Come on @PokerStars@GGPokerOfficial@888poker@ACR_POKER – let's do right thing
Gg Poker Results
1. Maximum 1 RE to any MTT (inc flighted)
2. LR not lower than 20BBs
3. No Rake on re-entries
Patrick Leonard Murder
Leonard says his favourite tournament of the festival so far was the 6-Max Championship. He cashed, but says he didn't go 'super deep.'
'I prefer playing shorter handed so Mix Max, 7-max, 6-max are always more appealing to me than 8-max. So I'll be looking forward to playing the mix max tournaments coming up next week too. I'm very happy that partypoker basically never does nine-handed tournaments as I believe they should be retired!'
Event #4: $3,200 Mix-Max Championship comes with a $3,000,000 guarantee. Day 1 ends at the end of Level 18, with levels 25 minutes in length.
- Day 1a - Saturday, August 8th at 19:00 (BST)
- Day 1b - Sunday, August 9th at 19:00 (BST)
- Day 2 - Monday, August 10th at 19:00 (BST)
- Day 3 - Tuesday, August 11th at 19:00 (BST)
This event also has a Mini ($320 buy-in; $1,000,000 GTD) and Micro ($33, $300,000 GTD) edition making the WPT WOC accessible to players of any bankroll!
Pursuing WPT Success
Grand lotto live 4d. The prestige is not lost on Leonard in his pursuit of even more poker accolades.
'Winning a Championship Event would definitely feel prestigious,' he said. 'It's a field full of players from $1 satellite qualifiers to the best players in the world, so to win you have to adapt and adjust vs all different player types. You have to be able to play against fields like that, not just being able to play against top pros. To me that's what makes a great poker player.'
Play in the WPT World Online Championships on partypoker
In order to play in the WPT WOC you need to sign up for a partypoker account. Download partypoker via PokerNews and receive up to $30 worth of SPINS jackpot sit & go tickets when you make your first deposit.
Deposit $10 to receive $10 worth of free play, made up of:
Patrick Leonard - Team Partypoker
- Day 1 = 1 x $5 SPINS ticket + 5 x $0.25 SPINS tickets
- Day 2 = 5 x $0.25 SPINS tickets
- Day 4 = 5 x $0.25 SPINS tickets
- Day 6 = 5 x $0.25 SPINS tickets
Up your initial deposit to $20 and $30 worth of free play is yours, made up of:
- Day 1 = 1x $5 SPINS ticket + 5 x $1 SPINS tickets
- Day 2 = 1 x $5 SPINS tickes + 5x $1 SPINS tickets
- Day 4 = 4 x $1 SPINS tickets
- Day 5 = 2 x $3 SPINS tickets
Tags
wptwocRelated Room
partypoker
Online poker may be enjoying an unprecedented boost these days as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but partypoker ambassador Patrick Leonard thinks the industry could end up facing a massive financial crash.
Leonard made the comments on Twitter after carefully observing what's currently unfolding in the MTT scene, which he says is slowly destroying online poker.
The British poker pro pointed out that while the industry is running high at the moment, forcing some changes in the way things are being run, major operators should consider far-reaching repercussions as a result of their decisions.
Leonard is particularly hitting out at the present popularity of unlimited re-entries, which according to him is killing the game.
Tournaments that previously attracted huge fields are now overlaying, because players nowadays tend to get stuck on specific tournaments with 'artificially' formed prize-pools generated by unlimited re-entries. He cited PokerStars‘ $530 Stars Marathon as an example, a tournament that used to draw more than 200 players easily meeting the guarantee. But in the middle of the current lockdown online boom, the tournament has been coming short of the required numbers.
It used to get 200+ runners in February (I won it with 210 in its first week 🌞 and it rightfully grew) during covid you'd think it would get bigger? Well yesterday, 100k gte overlayed by 40+ players even with a last minute 30 player surge. Money is running out and quickly.
— Patrick Leonard (@padspoker) May 11, 2020
Leonard believes this is the root of the problem. The oversaturated tournament schedules these days reflect the current mindset of major operators – they're more focused on quantity rather than quality, and this needs to change for a more sustainable future. When players become unable to spread their investments, their finances are at risk.
Solutions On Offer
The partypoker ambassador said the big poker rooms have two options today – they can cut back on their MTT offerings, put more weight on quality and make this current boom beneficial to the industry in the long term, or go towards the unlimited re-entry route and ultimately deal with financial crisis.
The leading sites such as GGPoker are actually taking advantage of option number 2 and Leonard isn't happy about it. This is despite the fact that the staking stable he co-founded is actually benefiting from the current MTT scenario.
He is calling for a united approach between major brands and their ambassadors to turn things around and look for better ways to save the future of online poker. Instead of putting out unlimited re-entries, Leonard suggests single re-entry tournaments or freezeouts, something that partypoker boss Rob Yong also agrees to.
In fact, the Dusk Till Dawn owner also came up with his own recommendations on Twitter, tagging rivals PokerStars, GGPoker, 888poker and Americas Cardroom. Yong said the major sites can agree to offer single re-entry in any MTT with late registrations limited to 20 BBs, and no rake deducted on re-entries.
Just read @padsPokerSquad concern about re-entries & late reg to 5-10BBs.
Come on @PokerStars@GGPokerOfficial@888poker@ACR_POKER – let's do right thing
Gg Poker Results
1. Maximum 1 RE to any MTT (inc flighted)
2. LR not lower than 20BBs
3. No Rake on re-entries
Patrick Leonard Murder
Where do @partypoker sign? pic.twitter.com/ygXoFt1bqb
Patrick Leonard Warns Unlimited Re .. - Top Ten Poker Sites
— Rob Yong (@rob_yong_) May 12, 2020
