LEOCOP IV Event 1 Played

LEOCOP IV (Ladbrokes European Online Championship of Poker) has recently has started last Sunday. Already, first event has been played. Event 1, with a $150 buy-in attracted 440 players from all over the Europe, with Swedish player Hefaistos taking the first victory and winning first event.

The LEOCOP IV kicked off at 7 PM on Sunday with the rebuy tournament. Ladbrokes decided to throw in an additional cash prize of $10,000 and at the time when all rebuys were counted, players were competing for $139,750 prize pool.

Edward Ihre, Ladbrokes Poker managing director:

“This was a brilliant start to the festival. We had players from a myriad of countries play in the event, which I think illustrates that Ladbrokes is still the spiritual home of European Poker and just how important an event the LEOCOP is. We expect around the same number of runners if not more for the opening tournament in our LEOCOP $50 Re-Buy tonight, the extra juice of $10,000 added and a chance to play in the PMVII semi finals definitely makes it one of, if not the best value tournaments around.”

It took nine hours to to bring the game to top three players, and those were: Hefaistos, 26; Akolas, 21; and slim_boy, 30.

The oldest one, slim_boy, got knocked out the first, and won a $14,673 prize. Second was eliminated Akolas, with two pairs, but Heifastos just got higher kicker. Akolas won $22,360 prize.

And the winner, Heifastos, won $34,937 and a chance to play at Ladbrokes Poker online Masters Event on Nov. 22, that will bring all the winners from all events during this poker festival.

Tonight, players will have a chance to compete at LEOCOP for the $50 No-Limit Hold’em Rebuy event.. For more information about Ladbrokes and their future promotions, visit their official site.