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Later next month, the Holland Casino Amsterdam is staging the 15th Master Classics of Poker, one of the biggest and best-known international poker tournament in Europe.

From 3-11 November, the best poker players from all over the world (including the USA, France, Great Britain, Russia, Scandinavia, Austria and Germany) will be doing battle. Along with famous Dutch poker players like Marcel Lüske, Rob Hollink and Noah Boeken, international poker stars like David Colclough, Isabelle Mercier and The Hendon Mob.

Last year the total MCOP prize pot pushed €2.5 million. On top of that, extra prize money is also being put up this year by the Holland Casino: a contribution of no less than €63,900.

The main tournament in the MCOP is the Lido Poker Tournament. This tournament takes place from Wednesday the 8th to Saturday the 11th of November and has a buy-in of €5,000.

The Norwegian Thomas Aleksander Middleton, last year’s winner of the Lido Poker Tournament, received €528,000. And that’s not all: in honour of the anniversary the nine finalists in the Lido Poker Tournament will also go away with a $10,000 package for the 2007 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

The Master Classics of Poker is a great tournament with seven different events including Omaha and the ubiquitous Texas Hold’em buy-ins vary from €120 to €5,000 and tournaments start every day at 2pm.