The Ladbrokespoker.com Online European Championship of Poker III (LEOCOP) came to an electrifying close on Sunday. The main event winner, twenty four year old newcomer to Ladbrokespoker.com ‘pands’, beat 250 other players to scoop the first prize of $225,000 (£118,000).
The LEOCOP, Ladbrokes annual seven-day online poker festival took place from 15th to 21st October. The event saw Ladbrokes players going head-to-head with some of Europe’s top poker professionals all vying for a share of the $1,170,000(£585,620) guaranteed prize pool including defending champ Grazza, Roy 'The Boy' Brindley, Nebuchad, who played in Ladbrokes first ever King of cash games, midweek and "Jaffacake"Jeff Kimber Head up champ .
For the first time this year, the main event was held over two days, enabling players to take an overnight break in-between tough matches. The new two-day format was devised to be more in-keeping with offline events and enable final players to make important poker decisions without being affected by exhaustion.
After five days that saw some of poker’s finest card connoisseurs battling it out on the table in a mixture of games, the LEOCOP III main event final saw 19 players make the Sunday . With the other contestants gone, the ‘heads-up’ battle finally took place between ‘dilling 89’ and ‘pands’. Whilst dillin 89 finished in second place winning himself $146, 250 (£71,500), ‘pands’ took away the LEOCOP title taking away an impressive $225,000.
Cbass, aka Beverly Pace (left), wife of 80’s comic Norman Pace, one half of Hale and Pace, once again showed herself as being no poker pushover by coming in at 8th place in the LEOCOP III event. The mighty Cbass has an already impressive record this year, including coming fifth in this year’s European Ladies Championship, netting her prizes totalling over $70,000. Beverly Says, ‘I’d like to use my success as an example and encourage other women to take up playing poker as it’s a skilled card game that is extremely social and great fun’.
The LEOCOP, Ladbrokes annual seven-day online poker festival took place from 15th to 21st October. The event saw Ladbrokes players going head-to-head with some of Europe’s top poker professionals all vying for a share of the $1,170,000(£585,620) guaranteed prize pool including defending champ Grazza, Roy 'The Boy' Brindley, Nebuchad, who played in Ladbrokes first ever King of cash games, midweek and "Jaffacake"Jeff Kimber Head up champ .
For the first time this year, the main event was held over two days, enabling players to take an overnight break in-between tough matches. The new two-day format was devised to be more in-keeping with offline events and enable final players to make important poker decisions without being affected by exhaustion.
After five days that saw some of poker’s finest card connoisseurs battling it out on the table in a mixture of games, the LEOCOP III main event final saw 19 players make the Sunday . With the other contestants gone, the ‘heads-up’ battle finally took place between ‘dilling 89’ and ‘pands’. Whilst dillin 89 finished in second place winning himself $146, 250 (£71,500), ‘pands’ took away the LEOCOP title taking away an impressive $225,000.Cbass, aka Beverly Pace (left), wife of 80’s comic Norman Pace, one half of Hale and Pace, once again showed herself as being no poker pushover by coming in at 8th place in the LEOCOP III event. The mighty Cbass has an already impressive record this year, including coming fifth in this year’s European Ladies Championship, netting her prizes totalling over $70,000. Beverly Says, ‘I’d like to use my success as an example and encourage other women to take up playing poker as it’s a skilled card game that is extremely social and great fun’.