The LEOCOP IV, Europe's long running and big added money online poker tournament is back and qualification is open for the 15 day long festival upwards of $1 in a weekly schedule of satellites feeding into the LEOCOP championship events.

Games will include No Limit, Fixed, Pot Limit, Texas Hold Em, Pot Limit Omaha and Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo with a mixture of Freezeout and Re-buy structures with money added to each tournament from $2500 to $250,000. The festival which in total exceeds $500,000 added, will run from the 26 of October until the 9 November culminating in the $1000 + $100 LEOCOP main event (with $250,000 added) on Sun 9 November.

This year there is also be running a leaderboard with over $14,000 in prize money for the top ten players featured and an invitation to the top 80 in the table to play in the $120,000 LEOCOP IV Masters Events freeroll (22 November) where the first prize is a place in the semi final of Poker Million VII and a guaranteed payday of at least $20,000.

Edward Ihre MD of Ladbrokes Poker said: "As you know, we put a lot of emphasis on the importance of community and the LEOCOP (Ladbrokes European Online Championship of Poker) is like our annual family gathering. It's the one time you can guarantee that everyone will make an appearance."

"Its a chance to catch up with friends and acquaintances, learn from the old school and as Grazza (Graeme Newman) demonstrated in 2006 when he won the main event, sometimes its a rare opportunity to teach an old dog a trick or two and perhaps pick up the massive cheque at the end of it all! Of course the kudos and the massive prize pools are also very good reasons that players Europe-wide play this fantastic event!"

The schedule of events can be found on the Ladbrokes site: