2015 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

€25,500 High Roller
Day: 2
Event Info

2015 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k6
Prize
€1,114,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€25,000
Prize Pool
€5,267,500
Entries
215
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

The €25K Existential Crisis of Patrick Leonard

Level 11 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Patrick Leonard
Patrick Leonard

Patrick Leonard, who busted once and reentered yesterday, begins Day 2 with 45,300. It's a number he's not too happy with; in fact, the last hand of Day 1 seems to have thrown Leonard into a bit of an existential crisis.

Late last night, after play had concluded, Leonard bared his poker soul in the popular TwoPlusTwo forum:

"I'm going to say this and I know its not going to sound good to investors, but I really dont feel like I should be playing 25k tournaments.

"I just took a bad beat which 99.9% of the time I take perfectly fine but here it hit me really badly. It was the last hand of the day, I've been happy all day, even when times were going really bad I was very optimistic and played as close to A game as possible, but when this river card happened, I can't really explain it but it hurt me mentally way more than it should have done.

"Walking back to my hotel I felt genuinely very, very sad and thats a pretty bad thing. Bad beats are part of everything, I should just accept it and move on to the next hand, but this time it just made me genuinely sad/upset and thats a terrible mindset to have."

There's a lot more to the post — which you can view in full here — but it's clear yesterday took it's toll on Leonard. The silver lining is that today is a new day, and in poker, truly anything can happen.

We'll keep an eye on Leonard throughout Day 2 to see if his luck changes.

Tags: Patrick Leonard