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Patrick “pads1161” Leonard on the Mental Game and Trapping Aggressive Players

Like much of the poker world, British poker pro Patrick Leonard is in Spain this week participating in the European Poker Tour Barcelona festival, the first stop of Season 12 of the EPT.

Leonard has an impressive record of live tournament success most recently highlighted by a trio of relatively deep runs in last summer’s World Series of Poker. Meanwhile his résumé online has been even more accomplished. Leonard has held the distinction before of topping PocketFives’ worldwide rankings with the site recording more than $2 million worth of cashes for Leonard, best known online as “pads1161.