Ladbrokes European Online Championship of Poker

Aug 20, 2008

Author: Rebecca Rosales

Many online poker players turning their attention to the Ladbrokes European Online Championship of Poker or LEOCOP IV. This poker series is one of the longest running and largest added money online poker tournaments ever and players are gearing up for the event.

The LEOCOP is all about poker and there will be 15 great days filled with online No Limit, Fixed and Pot Limit Hold'em, plus Pot Limit Omaha, Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo and Freezeouts. Since buy in's can be higher then players can afford to pay there are online satellites.

There is a weekly schedule of online satellites starting at $1 dollar that will award seats into the LEOCOP Championship events. For a complete list of satellites that are running you can visit the Ladbrokes Poker lobby and the times and buy ins will be listed there.

This year's Ladbrokes European Online Championship of Poker is going to be bigger and better then ever. Ladbrokes Poker has added Freezeouts to the schedule plus Re-Buy structures for some of the events. They are also adding more money into each online tournament to the tune of $2,500 up to $250,000 dollars.

There is going to be more the $500,000 dollars total added to the festival which starts on October 26th and runs til November 9th. The Main Event will start will be stating on November 9th with a $1,000 + $100 dollar buyin. Ladbrokes is going to be adding $250,000 dollars to this prize pool.

There is also going to be a leader board running throughout the event and the top ten overall players will get to split over $14,000 in prize money. The top 80 overall players on the leader board will also get to play in the $120,000 LEOCOP IV Masters Events freeroll.

Edward Ihre MD of Ladbrokes Poker said: "As you know, we put a lot of emphasis on the importance of community and the LEOCOP (Ladbrokes European Online Championship of Poker) is like our annual family gathering. It's the one time you can guarantee that everyone will make an appearance. Its a chance to catch up with friends and acquaintances, learn from the old school and as Grazza (Graeme Newman) demonstrated in 2006 when he won the main event, sometimes its a rare opportunity to teach an old dog a trick or two and perhaps pick up the massive cheque at the end of it all! Of course the kudos and the massive prize pools are also very good reasons that players Europe-wide play this fantastic event!"