Last Chance Saloon
It's the penultimate day here at the main event in London's Hilton hotel on the Edgeware Road. Where there was once 848 players, now remains just 24 players who are each guaranteed £21,000 for surviving this far. The pay jumps are starting to get steeper though with £900,000 (over $1.4 million) for the winner and the PokerStars.com EPT London 2010 title.
Chance Kornuth, who won the $5,000 PLO event at the WSOP this summer, is the chip leader going into today's proceedings, with 2,302,000, over half a million more in chips than his nearest rival Per Ummer. The field remains heavily stacked though, WSOPE and four-time bracelet winner John Juanda is still in the mix, as is the former Main Event champion Joe Hachem. With his bracelet and WPT win, Hachem has his eyes on becoming only the third player to complete the "Triple Crown" by adding an EPT victory to his belt.
Other players still in the tournament include WPT Cyprus title-holder Thomas Bichon, IPT champion Matt Perrins and UKIPT Brighton winner Jamie Burland.
We'll be playing down to our final table of eight players (though the unofficial final table will be nine-handed first) and Pokernews will be here with all the action from the first riffle to the last river!
Play begins in roughly 15 minutes.