Barcelona is one of the most popular holiday destinations inside Europe. And it is no wonder as the city is mixture of exciting history, modern architecture, laid back attitude and great shopping opportunities. However when it comes to poker players they know Barcelona mainly of the nice casinos and loose cash poker games. In the last few years if you wished to participate in an nice international poker tournament in Barcelona the buy in has been too high for the average players wallet as the EPT Barcelona buyin is around 8,000€. But now with the new European Masters of Poker tournament series even the regular poker players have the chance to play in a cool tournament in Barcelona.

Between 29th July of and 1st of August 2009 EMOP Barcelona event takes place. The buy in to this tournament is only 1,000€ but with expected 500 players you will get to compete for 500,000€ worth prize money. At the same time with the EMOP Main Event there is also two EMOP side events, 500+50€ pot limit omaha tournament on 31st of July and 300+30€ no limit holdem event on 1st of August. You can find more information about the events and the venue from here.

If instead of doing a direct buy in you wish to try to qualify to this tournament through an online poker site you can do it at NoiQ poker, it is one of the biggest online poker sites inside Europe. They already have satellites and super satellites running to this tournament. The cheapest you can qualify for to EMOP Barcelona for is merely 2€. Each of the packages that is up for grabs in the online satellites is worth 1,800€. The packages include the 1000€+150€ tournament seats and 650€ for travel and hotel expenses.