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...surprisingly, for a man so caught up in the moment, the future remains uncertain. After graduation, Patitucci plans on living in California and taking his poker game to the next level. Playing 20 to 30 hours a week of online poker, and having competed in over 25 tournaments in two years, he views this dream seriously. “I know that on any given day, I could compete with very good players in a tournament setting. It’s just a question of whether or not on that day I’ll get lucky...
...Patitucci is more interested in poker and having a good time than grades and traditional success. He came as an academic all-star, first in a class of 800 at a competitive Chicago high school. But at Harvard Patitucci became, according to Bressman, “the most undedicated genius in the world...
...Patitucci puts it in perspective: “Other people see Harvard as an opportunity to enhance their lives in the future. I see it as an opportunity to enhance my life...
Over the years, Patitucci has become the archetypical party animal at an all-too-serious Harvard. But nearly everyone who has come into contact with Patitucci says that it his genuine friendliness, more than his drunken antics, that makes him so memorable. “There are a lot of cool people here and I might as well get to know as many of them as I can,” he says. “That’s what I think college is about...
Most of Patitucci’s friends laugh when asked where they see him in 15 years. It’s hard for them to imagine Patitucci outside the life of a college student. As Patitucci’s friend Ryan W. Pakter ’04 puts it, “If you told me Patitucci was going to be a college professor, or playing in the World Series of Poker, I’d be like, ‘Yeah, that all sounds right...