The high roller event coverage continues here. This afternoon 86 players started, each paying a £20,000 buy-in. They’ll play until just eight remain tonight, returning for the final tomorrow afternoon. Blinds are now 800/1,600 with a running ante of 200. We’ll be bringing updates here alongside our EPT London coverage. Click refresh to see the latest details.

11.25pm: A pre-flop raise of 4,800 by Daniel Negreanu in middle position which both Dave Ulliott in the hi-jack and Alex Roumeliotis in the cut off called. The flop came 7c-6d-Ad which Negreanu checked and Ulliott bet at, 7,500 total. Roumeliotis called but Negreanu got out, leaving them both to play heads up at the turn, a 6c.

Ulliott tapped the table, indicating a check. Roumeliotis then made it 8,000. Ulliott peeked at his cards one last time but it was no good. He mucked, down now to 37,000. For Roumeliotis though he races ahead, among the leaders on 130,000.

11.10pm: Million Dollar Man Ylon Schwartz has kept a low profile, but played a hand to the river with Scotty Nguyen. With the board reading 7c-2s-Js-9h Nguyen made it 4,700 from the big blind which Schwartz called in the cut off. The river was a king, a vital king it seems because both players had one. Two checks and a showdown later and the pot was split, king-queen each cause Ylon to let out a good natured “argh!”

11.05pm: PokerStars qualifier Johan van Till is another player to bust out.

11pm: Play resumes with blinds now 800/1,600 with a running ante of 200. Only 29 of the original 86 players remain.

We’re now into level 31 where the blinds are 60,000-120,000. Two players remained at the start of the level. Updates will be posted here until we have a champion. Click refresh to update the page. Don’t forget you can also watch the action live on EPT Live and click here for prize winners so far

Michael Martin, USA, wins EPT London, earning £1,000,000
Michael Tureniec, PokerStars qualifier from Sweden, is eliminated in second place, earning £525,314

10.50pm: Michael Martin announces all in pre-flop. That, of course, means that Michael Tureniec is covered and he calls! It’s pocket fours for Martin, K-9 for Tureniec and the flop runs out 2d-3s-6h, then 4d! then 2s on the river, which means this is all over!

10.45pm: After some small pre-flop raising, the players check a flop of Jh-10s-6h. Then all hell breaks loose. The prompt is the seemingly-innocuous 3s on the turn but Tureniec likes it and bets 385,000 into a 500,000 pot. Michael Martin calls. On the river - Jd - Tureniec bets 680,000 and Martin calls. Tureniec shows Q-4 for queen high, but Martin’s K-10 - a pair of 10s - rewards the hero call. Martin is now back up to 4.6m in chips against the 1.375m of Tureniec.

10.40pm: The blinds are sky high, but so are the stacks in front of both of these men. And yet this has gone quiet again, with Michael Tureniec dumbfounding EPT Live commentator John Duthie by folding his button heads up. “I have never seen a Swedish player fold his button,” says Duthie.

10.30pm: The players return with their even stacks and this really could go either way. More peerless insights such as that will follow right here.

10.10pm: We’ll start this level in 15 minutes where Michael Tureniec will be the chip leader in what is an exceptionally well-balanced contest. The Swede has 3,140,000; Michael Martin has 2,865,000.

We’re now into level 30 where the blinds are 40,000-80,000 with a running 10,000 running ante. Two players remained at the start of the level. Updates will be posted here until we have a champion. Click refresh to update the page. Don’t forget you can also watch the action live on EPT Live and click here for prize winners so far

10.10pm: On the last hand of the level they get to see flop of 8h-Kd-3h and Tureniec bets 120,000. Martin lets it go and the blinds go up.

10pm: The momentum has gently shifted towards Michael Tureniec, even though Michael Martin just has the chip lead. Martin raises pre-flop, another 120,000. Tureniec reraises to 700,000, leaving Martin needing to find another 480,000. He can’t find it and instead opts to fold.

9.55pm: Turneniec takes down another decent pot, about 760,000, when he bets out on a board of J-J-6. Michael Martin folds.

9.50pm: In an unraised pot, they see it all the way to the river and a board showing Kh-10c-2c-9h-8c. Tureniec checks on the end, Martic bets 120,000, and that’s good enough.

9.45pm: Michael Martin raises on the button and Tureniec calls. They see a flop of 10h-Jd-Qs, which they both check and then Tureniec bets 220,000 on the dangerous Kd turn. Martin calls and this is looking very suspicious. The river is the 6s and Tureniec checks. Martin also checks and shows K-9 but Tureniec has trap-checked the ace. Martin does very well not to bet his wrong end of the straight and Tureniec’s cunning plan is foiled. Still, he takes the pot of 800,000 and on we go.

9.35pm: These two have both been relentlessly aggressive on this final table, but it’s all become might cagey in recent minutes. We even see a turn card - it’s the 2h to add to a flop of 4s-Qc-7c - and Martin bets 300,000. Tureniec slides in the call. The river is the 9h and Tureniec checks again (he’s check-called both previous streets) allowing Martin to bet 650,000. He calls and Martin shows Q-2. Tureniec doesn’t show. That’s a million-plus pot going to Martin.

9.20pm: It’s heads-up in London after the elimination of the Team PokerStars Pro Marcin Horecki. Horecki talked to our video bloggers earlier today about the final table experience:

Watch EPT London 08 Final Table: Marcin Horecki on PokerStars.tv

9.15pm: The chip counts have definitely leveled out here with Tureniec sitting with 2,330,000 and Martin with 3,675,000. There’s still some poker to be played here. Martin raises pre-flop and Tureniec makes it another 450,000. Martin folds.

9.10pm: About two hands into the new level, they race for the title. Tureniec is all in with A-J and Michael Martin calls from the big blind with pocket sevens. One ace, two aces on the flop and no seven level this one up and we play on.

The high roller event coverage continues here. This who’s who of poker started with 86, each paying a £20,000 buy-in and they’ll play through to a last eight tonight, returning for the final tomorrow afternoon. Starting stacks of 20,000, blinds now 200/400 with a running ante of 50. We’ll be bringing updates here alongside our EPT London coverage. Click refresh to see the latest details.

10.50pm: Players pause for ten minutes.

10.45pm: Daniel Negreanu’s once mighty position as chip leader has taken a dent, a hand against Alexander Roumeliotis where a set of jacks brought Negreanu back down to earth. In terms of a dose of first aid he didn’t do too badly a few hands later. On a flop of 4d-5s-5h Jason Mercier bet 5,100 which Negreanu called. By now the break had started and only the two players, and Barry Greenstein, were still around to see.

A 7c turn card and Mercier checked. Negreanu made it 7,000 to go on which Mercier wanted no part of. Negreanu flashed tow face cards before heading off on the break.

On the other table it was Max Pescatori putting his tournament life at risk a few hands before the break. With the board already showing Kh-2s-9c-As Pescatori made it 6,000, called by Jani Sointula. The river card, a 6c, and Pescatori moved all-in, 11,000 in total which Sointula called. 9d-4h for the Italian but Sointula had him beat with 9h-Ts.

10.30pm: No harm was done to Dan Heimiller’s stack when he bet all the way on a board of 6h-6d-5d-Qd-Kh that eventually saw his opponent bail out, leaving Heimiller 20,000 better off than he started with.

Meanwhile Michael Watson and Max Pescatori arrive at the table, their table breaking and sending John Juanda to join Team PokerStars Pro Andre Akkari’s table.

David Benyamine gets a few more chips to add to his growing stack on the next hand, betting on a 3s-5s-2d flop that ended anyone else’s plans in the hand.

10.20pm: It’s the high roller event and they don’t roll any higher than Barry Greenstein. Here’s what the Team PokerStars Pro had to say:

Watch EPT London 08 Final Table: Barry Greenstein on PokerStars.tv

9.55pm: A run down of notable chip counts in the high roller event can be found HERE.

9.45pm: Million Dollar Man Ylon Schwartz and Kagawa Masaaki just faced off in a pot. On a flop of 2s-6c-6s Schwartz fired out 5,100 from the cut off. It was folded back to Masaaki in the hi-jack who called for a 6d on the turn. Both checked for a 8d on fifth street. A check-check and Masaaki turned over pocket twos. More than enough.

9.15pm: Recent eliminations include Neil Channing and Chris Ferguson as half of the field remain. One of the leaders is Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu.

Both he and Million Dollar Man Darus Suharto checked the flop of Jd-4s-7c. On the turn card 6s Negreanu, in the cut off, made it 5,800. Suharto thought about it for a while, an expression that suggested he was adding up numbers, and then re-raised, another 11,200 on top of Negreanu’s bet.

Negreanu now asked how much Suharto had then began talking quietly to himself and then at Suharto “I think I know what you’ve got.” Suharto smiles, what else can you do, as Negreanu called. The 9s on the river. Suharto checked a second before Negreanu slammed a stack of brown chips into the pot. Suharto called all-in, showing 8d-6d, but Negreanu had made his flush holding Js-Ts.

Darus Suharto out, Negreanu up to more than 145,000.

8.45pm: Play resumes in level seven, with blinds now400/800 with a running ante of 100.

We’re now into level 29 where the blinds are 40,000-80,000 with a running 5,000 running ante. We play uninterrupted from here all the way through to a new EPT London champion. Updates will be posted here level by level with the latest information at the top. Click refresh to update the page. Don’t forget you can also watch the action live on EPT Live and click here for prize winners so far

9.10pm: With a three-to-one chip lead, the portents look good for Michael Martin. Considering he was down to one big blind earlier this level, it’s an amazing turn-aroud for the American and few would bet against him now.

9.10pm: The approximate heads up chip counts are as follows:
Michael Martin - 4,800,000
Michael Tureniec - 1,205,000

9.05pm: As they reset the final table to accommodate the final two players, why not take a look at the thoughts of Alan Smurfit, the final table player who went out earlier today:

Watch EPT London 08 Final Day: Alan Smurfit on PokerStars.tv

8.57pm: Marcin Horecki, Team PokerStars Pro, Poland, eliminated in third place earning £303,439
Michael Martin is unbeatable here and will now go heads up with Martin Tureniec. He accounts for the final Team PokerStars Pro Marcin Horecki, who pushes all in from the button with Kh-8d. Martin re-raises all in from the small blind and has Horecki dominated with Ks-Jh. The flop is blank, but Horecki thinks he’s pulled off a massive outdraw when the 8h turns. However it’s not all over and the Js pops out on the river to give Martin all of Horecki’s chips and a sizeable chip lead as they go head-to-head.

8.51pm: Michael Martin and Martin Tureniec play out a pot that Tureniec ends up taking with a hefty bet on the turn.

8.50pm: There has been a ludicrous switch in fortunes in this level, with the chip counts now looking like this:

Michael Martin - 3,670,000
Marcin Horecki - 1,390,000
Michael Tureniec - 945,000

8.40pm: The rush continues for Michael Martin who now takes down a pot of 955,000 on a board of 3h-Ac-10h-8c-10h and shows 10-2 for trips. Marcin Horecki, his opponent, mucks and shakes his head.

8.30pm: Three-handed chip counts are as follows:
Michael Martin - 2,665,000
Marcin Horecki - 1,995,000
Michael Tureniec - 1,345,000

8.22pm: Eric Liu, USA, is eliminated in fourth place, earning £234,920
Liu can’t pull off the same miracles as Michael Martin and when he gets his chips in, with J-10, he gets a call from the newly-chipped up Martin with A-9. Liu picks up an inside straight draw but doesn’t hit it and Martin ends up with trip aces. Liu, who has dominated this table from the start, is now finished.

8.19pm: Michael Martin double up again!
That’s one hell of a rush. Martin is down to his last 100,000 but is back to 1.4million in three hands. He finds aces this time and gets a call from his pre-flop push from Tureniec with his Q-J. No miracles and Martin is back in second place.

8.16pm: Michael Martin doubles up through Michael Tureniec
A crazy hand of fluctuating fortunes as Martin gets them all in with pocket nines and Tureniec has king seven. The flop brings a king and a seven and the turn what looks like a pretty convincing second seven giving Tureniec a full house. But the miracle nine comes on the river and he doubles up again.

8.15pm: Michael Martin triples up
Michael Martin is pretty much all in from the big blind of 80,000. He raises it the only 20,000 he has behind. Marcin Horecki and Michael Martin check it all the way down and see 6d-Kd-2s-Ks- 4h. But it’s the all in player with the best hole cards, that he hasn’t even looked at. He has pocket eights and they hold.

8.11pm: Eric Liu doubles up through Michael Martin. The two short stacks go to war with A-10 v 2-2 and Liu flops a broadway straight when it comes J-Q-K. No redraw and Martin is own to about 100,000.

8.10pm: Eric Liu pushes his short stack in from the small blind. It totals 490,000 and Michael Martin thinks about it from the big blind, but folds.

8.05pm: Massive double up for Erik Tureniec who raises from under the gun and must have been delighted to see Eric Liu reraise all in from the big blind. Delighted because Tureniec has aces and Liu only A-6c. The board is dry for Liu and he slips down to less than half a million, while the Swedish PokerStars qualifier is leader with more than two million.

8pm: And we’re back. These four players are looking at some monstrous blinds of 40,000-80,000 and Marcin Horecki moves all in from the small blind to pick up Michael Martin’s big blind.

7.50pm: Here’s some entertainment while we wait for the players to return from the break. Chris Moneymaker gives hi impressions on this final table.

Watch EPT London 08 Final Day: Chris Moneymaker on PokerStars.tv

7.45pm: Players are a little late back from the dinner break, but coverage will continue here the minute they return. The chip counts at the break were as follows:

Marcin Horecki, Poland, Team PokerStars Pro, 2,152,000
Eric Liu, USA, 1,666,000
Michael Tureniec, Sweden, PokerStars qualifier, 1,357,000
Michael Martin, USA, 860,000