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All the talk of Amsterdam in the GUKPT v UKIPT thread made me nostalgic about my favourite tournament and instead of playing the GUKPT main event I think I will give MCOP a bash for the first time in 3 years (it is on the same week)

It's €4000 + 250 this year and I'm looking to sell 30% at no mark up if you can give me cash in Euros or at 1.1 if you pay by bank transfer, cash in sterling or money on Pokerstars. (I'm in London for another couple of days if you are here for the EPT and want to give me cash in Euros)

As I'm offering this with no mark up, I think it's only fair that anyone who has paid a mark up for my action in the past gets the first chance to buy, so it's only open to them for a week (lets say until 20th October)

I have my best record of any venue at this event.

I think I've played the main event 9 times and I've final tabled 3 times and cashed another 3 times.

Always happy and extremely focused out there and the field is usually very soft. Will be even softer with most good UK players at the Vic.

Not playing so much nowadays, but cashed in 3 of the last 4 tournaments I played.

12th @ 25/25 at the Vic, 5th @ GPS Newcastle and 23rd @ UKIPT London.

My complete record is here: http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=112

Feel free to Sharkscope me: The Camel (pokerstars)

The tournament isn't til the end of November so no immediate hurry for the money, but must be received before the week before I leave (will get a flight around the 22th November)

Will lock in at this rate if you choose to pay in sterling:

10% = £370
5% = £185
1% = £37

etc etc

Flames, put downs, piss takes all extremely welcome.

Thanks for reading and GL me!

10 Ball Please

Booked, thanks Fraser.

5 please Keith - long miss those Masterdam days sigh.

Booked thanks Malc.

Are you still in Aberdeen?

Pretty sure KLM fly direct from there, pop over for a flying visit.

Can I have 2.5% please Keith?

Certainly can. Booked.

A long time since you ventured to the land of canals, Van Gogh and Anne Frank.

Why not pay a return visit?

There's a PLO tournament on the sked.

5 please... PM bank details as have completely different bank now so not saved.

Ty and gl

Nope been away for 18 months now met a lovely lady whilst on a poker trip to DTD and now spend my time between work in Inverness and Nottinghamshire.

As for a trip to Amsterdam - not at the moment not enough spare time - hope you get a result.

Cheers

Scrap that, just sent for 5% £185 as had ur details on email from the good old days .... 😉

Gl Keith and do wins pls! !

Cheeky 1% please, will send by bank have details from before I think.

Damn, forgot to put in the OP that the mark up is 1.5 for Euro Sceptics and UKIP supporters because if it wasn't for them I wouldn't be having to go through the rigmarole of changing money into Euros to go and play a tournament at the home of one of our European comrades.

But as it's my oversight, booked I guess :)

Booked, will confirm I received the money when I get on the computer at home.

Thanks Dreenie.

I suppose we could always invade Europe and change their currencies to Sterling.

2.5 please Keith.

Booked thanks Ryan

lol cheers will send now.

1% please. Can transfer on Stars once confirmed :0

Booked thanks Simon.

3% left if my maths doesn't let me down. Which it often does.

Might open up a little more nearer the time, depending on how those 4 legged things with miniature villains on top run in the month ahead.

2% please,via stars if ok?

Booked thanks. Stars is fine.

1% please

ah just read op again i have not staked you before

You've got a special dispensation horsey.

Sold out for now.

Thanks guys.

£37 shipped on 'Stars from redsimon. vbol

Now if you can give me something to go and take a few bob from mr ladbrokes Ill have another 5% if you do.

Sigh, you missed a horse I'd been waiting to step up in trip to 2 miles on soft ground which ran yesterday.

Keep an eye on the horse racing thread

Received from

Redsimon
dreenie
woodsey

Just found out I can't make it and wanted to come get a piece. Serves me right I guess, crush them and I hope to see a good review so I can go next year.

GL Keith. Post up what dates you're about and I will come have a beer with you. I'm moving back to the Netherlands (brag) this winter so will pop up to the Damn for sure.

Balderdash and piffle. How have i missed this?!

Free up a 1 ball or 2 ball for a long time fan and loyal punter?

might make the journey with you mate

Thanks Keith.

Yes, it's been a while since I last played MCOP. It used to be THE annual highlight, aside from the WSOP, but then the EPT arrived, & sort of changed the landscape. We used to stay, as did many of the Brits, just across the road, at the Owl Hotel. (The passenger lift @ The Owl was the smallest lift I've ever been in).

I can exactly date my last MCOP trip - November 2003 - as I had, almost accidentally, taken 19.5% of the action of a guy named Ian Oldershaw. Ian, Thewy & I travelled & roomed together in those days. Ian ended up 2nd for €121,000.

Looking at that payout list has prompted so many memories, I may have to start a thread......

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=1597

This year's Omaha? I was serioiusly tempted when you mentioned it, but having looked t it, I don't much fancy the structure. 2,000 starting chips @ 25-50, & unlimited rebuys + an add-on suggests this will be carnage, a rebuy-fest, & I'd need €1,000 minimum to even consider playing it. I don't think unlimited rebuys in Omaha is a good thing, personally.


https://poker.hollandcasino.nl/en/masterclassicsofpoker


Anyway......I'll send you the cash a little nearer the time. MCOP Main Event cash # 7 (& win # 1) beckons, I hope.

Ahhh the good old pay 8% of the field and give 33% to first days :D.

Come on Tikay, I'll be there to keep control of you in the Dam. People generally feel a little more liberated when over there...

Can't overlook my most loyal mug punter staker.

Plus someone has dropped out, so yes, you can take a piece.

Good man. Sent £74 for 2%
Good luck.

Keith

Ive been chucking some stuff out and came across this in a 2007 Masterclassics programme.

Can just make out a stack and very distinctive chip protector.

Guess who :-)

Just sent for this on stars.  thanks

Haha, you should have kept this and posted it the night before Day 1 for motivational purposes.

JJ Hazan should have got a 2 round penalty for wearing an offensive shirt and has anyone seen the Swiss geezer who won it since?

Just squirreled away the loot like a meanie.

Receieved thanks Ryan

Full team

10% Fraser
5% RedFox
2.5% tikay
2.5% Scotty77 - paid
2% Junior - paid
2% rockstar - paid
1% Woodsey - paid
1% redsimon - paid
1% horseplayer


3% left if anyone is interested, might open another 10% nearer the time.

1% pls Keith. Need bank details

2% keith.  Need bank deets as well.  If omm's golden dog winnings are being invested i need to invest my dog cash as well!

Both booked.

Re sold out.

PM me Bank Details Keith ... Will ship this week mate

Same for me Keith.

Shipped Stars  GL

Got it thanks Fraser.

Been away a few days was going to PM everyone bank deets tonight.

Will do it shortly.

Good luck Keith.

payment sent by bank today. good luck.

Received, thanks Omm

Gentle reminder for anyone who has booked but not sent yet, could you do it by the end of the week please.

Cheers

Gently paid £92.50 by Bank TX this morning Keith, should be with you immediately.

Run well, & enjoy.

Sent £37 as we speak

thanks Keith

£74 transferred to your bank Keith.  Good luck.

All received now.

Thanks guys, good luck me.

By the way, for total tranparency:

Someone made me an offer I could not refuse for 10%, so I let them have it.

Playing for 60% total.

Good Luck Keith! Is it this week?

Thanks Simon.

Flying Monday lunchtime, starts Tuesday afternoon.

Usually coverage on pokernews.nl and pokercity.nl but they concentrate on Noah Baoken, Marcel Luske and probably (this year anyway) Jorryt Van Hoof :)

Only been once, but what a comical 4 days :D

Best of luck, Keith!

Good luck Keith the Camel

Gizza 1% for funking porpoises Keith, not that I'll funk any less.

Give no quarter.

I'll take that as "no sale" unless I hear to the contrary then.

Best of luck.

Just saw it Ralph.

Yes, you've got 1% mate if you still want it.

Good Luck today Keith.......stay off the " space cake " until after please   :)

Cheers Keith.

Booked and shipped.

I remember one occasion, about 10 years ago, I was having dinner with Mr Thew the night before the main event started.

He happened to mention that he was surprised to learn the tournament had sold out so quickly.

I hadn't bought my seat yet!

I hastily put down my bread roll half eaten and raced to the casino to confirm the news.
Luckily a friend who had already bought his seat won another in the last chance satellite and sold me the ticket and I got in the event.

Just bought in today.

Only 130 registered and no half eaten bread rolls for me.

Sad really, this was the best tournament in Europe back then and now cannot attract more than 150 entries.

Still, with late entries and re entries should get 200 I hope.

Still pretty disappointing.

why do you think that is?

slap bang between WPT and EPTs? event overkill/too many events?

less promotion than normal?


is there no early sign of domestic pick up from jorryt van hooft in the november 9?

Good luck Keith.

maybe 30+ people told me they were definitely going too, i expected it to be pretty big.

imagine its going to be v tough though.

yeah nostalgia apart mate the ept deuville will be a much softer field

It used to be *the* event in Europe. Added money and tons of prestige.

Now with a big event virtually every fortnight and no unique selling points for MCOP it is just another big tournament.

There were lots of Dutch players though, and I think it is better value than the average EPT.

Finished Day 1 on 48,700.

A little bit disappointing, as I hit more than my fair share of flops in the day.

It was the first time I've played a main event which is a re entry and I must admit I was very surprised to see people gamble decent stacks in the last level or so, with the knowledge they will fork out another 4 grand if they lose.

Fair enough if they've got 10-15 bbs.

But I was seeing some play I'd expect in a tenner rebuy at Luton with 30-40bb stacks. People must have more money than sense.

I should have shut up shop for the last hour when I got to 60k+

The "majors" scene was MCOP, E-WSOP & WSOP then.

Times have changed, eh?

One quirk of the MCOP (back then) was that they divided the cardroom into "Smoking" & "Non-Smoking" areas, & you were allowed to choose which you preferred.

I always remember Bushy, who was a non-smoker, saying "I've chosen the SMOKING section, as I think the field there is bound to be softer".

The mysteries of poker, & how we think, eh?

Good luck today Keith.   

It wasn't the World Series of Poker Europe, it was the WSOP trial in Vienna.

It was played over the exact same format as the real WSOP and was a really big deal.

I remember playing it for the first time and being nearly as excited as playing the WSOP.

Correct, E-WSOP @ Concorde, it was a HUGE deal.

Think Trumper won it one year? Chubby Nowab won it, or nearly so, a year or two later, too.

Off to google, I feel a ramble coming on.

BOOM, found it.

Trumper won it in 2001.


http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=734

Christer Johansson was a fearsome player.

Check out his HM

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=459

Must have the biggest % of wins to cashes ratio of virtually anyone on the database.

If he got hold a big stack it was game over for the rest of us.

Was also a big 7 card stud in Baden?

Good luck Day 2 Keith!

Did he retire from poker in 2010?

Seems like it. Haven't seen him in ages, although I'm hardly a reg these days.

'Wassberg' on Ladbrokes


Used to crush the highstakes cashgames, too.



Good luck today, Keith!

http://www.pokercity.nl/Poker_LiveReporting_Tournaments.aspx

live streaming and update site

Not exactly like for like in terms if tournament size, but this unlikely sort gives him a run for his money on wins:cashes ratio!!

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=117520

Should bring a smile! Good luck Keith.

That was a huge tourney the 7-stud one.

I think Shirley Lewis chopped it one year for six figures, what happened to her?

Stuart Rutter on live stream currently

http://www.pokercity.nl/Poker_LiveReporting_Tournaments.aspx

rutter crushing it got triple average with 150 left.

Keith in Hot pursuit..........up to 150K....first report down the page

The Lesser-Spotted Five-Bet Back Raise All-in

http://uk.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2014-MCOP/main-event/

Would love to see those cards.

 7d 2c

I typed in "did you collect the 72 prop bets after the hand" on twitter after Keith tweeted but couldn't pull the trigger.

Great minds eh?

Ha!

Is our hero crushing?

On dinner break so imagine chewing>>crushing currently :)

KK v 66 72k shove Keith Calls in BB with Kings guy hits his 6

And lost the final 10bbs with a legitimate chance to quadruple up.

Shoved MP with A9s.

Next player calls.

Sb shoves.

BB shoves!

Flat caller passes, I am up against KK and JJ for a 200k pot.

No ace and I'm out 6 short of the money.

Pretty devastated, thanks for the stake/support, really hoped I was going to go deep here.

vul keith.  Great effort.

Bugger, top effort.

That KK hand was cruel.

Are Milky Way and Paradiso still going if one's at a loose end?

Rookies.

Off there now :)

Unlucky Keith.

Hope you never found that canal. I had nightmares all night about your threatened bellyflop.

Anyway, that aside, would you play the MCOP again in the future, knowing what you now know?

Unlucky sir. Res me 5 for the next debacle :-)

That's a difficult one.

On one hand I handsdown play my best poker here. I love the city and feel confident and happy here.

Also must have something to do with the standard of opposition I guess. I feel like the majority of locals just aren't very good at poker.

But on the other hand..

I absolutely loath re entries. Especially for a main event.

It gives the top players a huge edge and definitely discourages amateurs having a shot at a big event.

Re entries for side events? Meh, fine I guess.

For main events? No thanks.

Great effort Keith.

Sort out a flight to Prague!

Been following your adventures on Twitter Keith, very unlucky and well played, should put more up for staking, great fun.

Great run,followed it online

In for future ventures

And to finalise what has been a most enjoyable thread......


http://www.pokernews.com/news/2014/11/2014-mcop-main-event-4-19946.htm

Read some of your twitterings - tough with the kk. Get over to deauville and ill have a piece.