LEOCOP IV Event #9 results

james666, aged 22 from Canterbury, is a very happy young man today after beating 645 players in the Sunday Deep Stack freezeout to win an amazing $18,650 first prize in the Ladbrokes online poker festival, LEOCOP IV. James, who has been playing online poker at Ladbrokespoker.com for four years has now guaranteed himself a place in the invitation only online Masters Event on the 22nd November where a place in the semi finals of Poker Million VII, a televised tournament on Sky Sports 2, with a million dollar first prize, is at stake.

Edward Ihre, MD of Ladbrokes Poker said: “This has been one of the most hotly contested tournaments so far. james666 has played in three other events although he didn’t cash in any of those, so this is obviously a great result for him. I think his perseverance has paid off! It’s worth playing in as many tournaments in the festival as possible. Apart from the massive added money we’re giving away a ‘top ten’ position on our LEOCOP Leaderboard which guarantees you a share of $14,000 in bonus cash and a top 80 placing will give you an exclusive invitation to play for a seat in a million dollar tournament.”

The points awarded on the LEOCOP Leaderboard are weighted and take into account the number of runners, the place the player finishes in and the level of buy-in of each tournament. At present james666 is second in the LEOCOP Leaderboard and in line to win an extra $3000 in cash, although with six days and six events to go anything could happen. Second place went to Swede MadeInSweden who wins $10,630 and secures fifth on the Leaderboard and the third place finisher, Im_all_in1, from Kent, wins $6,900 and is 10th on the LEOCOP leaderboard after securing 9th in the Ladies Championship last Wednesday and 49th in Omaha Hi/Lo.

The Deep Stack proved to be an endurance test. Nine hours of play was undertaken before players reached the final table and blinds of nosebleed proportions $10,000 and $20,000 with a $2000 ante. PapaBurgundi left in 10th after just two hands. He raised pre-flop in first position with pocket jacks, acebenny re-raised and action folded round to PapaBurgundi who went all-in. This was quickly called by acebenny who showed A-K. A flop of K-K-2 left PapaBurgundi looking for one of two remaining jacks which failed to come on the turn or river. slim_boy, who came second in the $150 + $15 LEOCOP opening tournament, found himself short-stacked and shoved with A-9. james666 insta-called and turned over A-K. With neither hand hitting slim_boy was duly sent to the rails.

The heads-up between MadeInSweden and james666 commenced after eleven hours of intense play. Hand after hand saw the blinds yo-yo between each player until MadeInSweden pushed all-in with pocket nines. After a long deliberation james666, who had him covered, called with A-6. The nines held up giving the Swede a healthy advantage. Yet some amazing play and a hand from the poker gods saw james666 regain the majority of his chips within half a dozen hands. james666 then made a stand with A-4 only to be called by MadeInSweden’s K-8. Trip sixes hit the board but james666’s higher kicker meant he was crowned the winner of the $100 + $10 Deepstack and as well as the cash guaranteed himself a place in the Masters Event later this month.