Poker
Van Patten learned to play poker from his father, actor Dick Van Patten, at age 14. Vincent has played in some of the biggest cash games in the world. He finished high in the money at the 2010 World Series of Poker main event. He finished 481st in a pool of 7,319 entrants and received winnings totalling $27,519. (This amount was awarded to finishers 460th thru 531st.) He was crowned "king of the Hollywood home games" as the host of World Poker Tour for which he has commentated for nine seasons. The first four seasons were on Travel Channel; seasons five and six were on Game Show Network, and its seventh season is on Fox Sports.
He also appears in commercials for Milwaukee's Potawatomi Bingo Casino and the WPT World Poker Room at Foxwoods Casino in Ledyard, Connecticut.
With Robert J Randisi, Van Patten has written The Picasso Flop (ISBN 0892960701), a novel about Vegas poker.
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“The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.”
—David Mamet (b. 1947)