With just 17 players left and £11,000 up top in the £115 entry £50,000 Guartanteed Side Event, two big names have suffered bad beats in their efforts to build a stack to take to the final table.
Chaz Chattha (pictured) lost a 1.3 million-chip pot when his aces all-in pre-flop were cracked by pocket sevens.
Nim Rattan then lost when her all-in shove with a covering stack with sevens lost to deuces by the at-risk player.
The final eight assemble in the Grand Prix UK Main Event
Here are the final eight players who will do battle in an attempt to win that magical £150,000 top prize and golden trophy in the Grand Prix UK Main Event!
It's Tomas Fara's birthday! Yes, our Seat 1 player is 35 today and what better way to celebrate than in the electric atmosphere of Dusk Till Dawn?
Fara's finest result to date in live tournaments was when he was runner-up in Amsterdam to win $163,273...today's win would eclipse that if he take it down!
Fara told us "I love the format and Dusk Till Dawn delivers." before he sat down and is passionate about poker offering the kind of side events that we've seen today and a return to more freezeouts entering the poker tournament circuit. He won his seat in this event from a $55 satellite on partypoker online and dreams of one day playing poker on the Pacific Island of Vanuatu. Don't tell Rob Yong...he'll set up another dream destination poker tournament offering ridiculous top prizes on the beach before you can say 'value'.
Peter 'Slots' Craw is already looking forward to winning this title and he's certain to improve on his best ever live cash of $12,000, which he took home for coming 4th in the Grand Prix Poker Tour Stadium Tour Main Event at Newcastle's St. James Park via partypoker.
He's always idolised Daniel Negreanu and would take on his hero in Las Vegas in his dream heads-up. But Peter told us that he's always satellited into these events on partypoker and would buy in directly if he hadn't purely down to the value.
Can he cash out the biggest result of his career by winning? Stay tuned for an exclusive chat with Peter Craw and his poker league friends later on tonight.
Adam Maxwell comes into play a little short-stacked, but he's loved the "friendly atmosphere" of Dusk Till Dawn all week and he's an absolute hero to his mates in the casino this evening, well supported as he shoots for glory.
Maxwell has previously won £25,000 in the Dusk Till Dawn Deepstack tournament, so any finish above 6th Place will represent his best-ever tournament result. His poker hero was the late Chinese Frankie, who played here at Dusk Till Dawn and was loved by all until his sad passing almost exactly a year ago.
Maxwell would love to play in more shot clock tournaments and loves an alternative poker format for side events, with mixed games just the springboard for his passion. He bought in for £220 on a Day 1 and one day hopes to take on Tom Dwan in the Bahamas. Maybe he can get a roll big enough to take him on in the nosebleed stakes and challenge him to fly there!
Andrei Frujina hails from Romania and has enjoyed Day 3 more than any other day in the tournament...it could end with him being £150,000 richer!
Frujina played mostly cash games until three months ago when he switched to tournaments as a focus. His reward could be a major title within 13 weeks! He too looks up to Tom Dwan and credits Dwan's bluffing ability and general grinding personality as two of the poker traits he admires.
Frujina dreams of playing at the World Series of Poker within two years. If he wins tonight he could fast-track that dream into Main Event glory!
Lithuanian player Roberto Gordonas is truly living the dream at the Grand Prix Main Event. He has the chip lead and a massive one at that, and he's looking to close out what is guaranteed to be his biggest cash ever even if he somehow finishes 8th.
He has enjoyed the "very good" Grand Prix structure and with his best live result just $2,000, Gordinas is following in the footsteps of his countryman and poker legend Tony G - Roberto's poker hero.
Richard King has already won a $10,000 package to the Caribbean Poker Party later this year and can't wait to take his wife over to the lush beaches and fun in the sun that only a partypoker experience provides. He's heard all about the fun in Punta Cana last November and will be flying out courtesy of having a golden chip in this event and making the final table.
Second in chips, King has a massive chance of taking down what would be his first major title tonight in Nottingham. He won £7,500 as part of the winning Team Challenge here in 2016, so knows this final table territory at Europe's most popular cardroom.
If Richard King could change one thing about live poker, it would be other players ever being miserable at the poker table. King always plays with a smile on his face and his happy-go-lucky mentality has manifested some great poker already this week. He qualified online for a fraction of the buy-in via partypoker online.
Antonis Poulengeris, otherwise known as "The Enigma," already has an impressive tournament resume, with cashes in UKIPT Edinburgh, PokerStars MegaStack London, and WPT National right here at Dusk Till Dawn. No matter where Poulengeris places from this point on, though, this will already be his largest tournament score to date (no mean feat, given that he qualified online via a $55 satellite on partypoker!)
Poulengeris says he has almost admired Sammy Farha as a poker legend and, if he could fulfil his poker dream, it would be to play Farha heads up in the Caribbean.
Jamie Whyte already has some impressive scores under his belt, with five-figure scores in both the WPT500 here at Dusk Till Dawn in 2015 and the WSOP Main Event last summer. He's looking to follow that up with another five-figure, maybe six-figure cash on this final table.
Whyte tells us his poker hero is Phil Ivey, and describes him as "the goat." He says he'd love to play him heads up one day, "in the Caribbean somewhere."
He says he really likes the new aesthetic of the cardroom here, and appreciates what partypoker and Dusk Till Dawn are doing for the players and poker in general. He qualified for the Grand Prix UK through a $2 satellite ticket via the Click & Collect promotion on partypoker - let's see how much he can run that up to!
