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.

12.55am: Players pause for a short break.

12.40am: More players are busting as the blinds begin to nip at ankles. Joel Nordkvist found that to be the case also. He bet on a flop of 4h-3c-7c only to be re-raised by Jason Mercier, the EPT San Remo winner making it 55,000 to go. This effectively made it an all-in or fold decision for Nordkvist who took his time over it but finally placed his chips in the middle. Mercier called showing pocket eights to Nordkvist’s Jh-7h for a pair. Nothing on the turn or river changed that and we’d lost one more.

12.25am: Ylon Schwartz is out, now enjoying a beer from the sidelines after what might be his last high-octane trial run before his World Series appearance next month.

12am: For a full run down of approximate chip counts at this stage visit the chip count page HERE.

11.40pm: Three tables remain in the high roller event. Organisers are hoping to get to the low teens before calling it a night.

Recent eliminations include Dave Ulliott, Juha Helppi and Team PokerStars Pro Andre Akkari. Meanwhile John Juanda now sits alongside David Benyamine, and Praz Bansi arrives on Scotty Nguyen and Ylon Schwartz’s table.

11.25pm: A pre-flop raise of 4,800 by Team PokerStars Pro 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.

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.

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.

8pm: Play pauses for a 45 minute dinner break.

7.55pm: Michael Watson bet 1,750 pre-flop from under-the-gun-plus-one and the action folded to John Juanda in the cut off. Juanda put his mirrored shades on and made it 5,020 to go. The flop came Kd-4s-3h. Watson checked, leaving it to Juanda to work the momentum, 7,200 this time. Watson called. An 8c on the turn and again Watson checked. Juanda reviewed his hand again and took his shades off, tapping his hand indicating a check. To the river card, Jc. This time Watson bet out, 14,500, which swung the momentum his way. Juanda thought about it, or at least appeared to, waiting three or four minutes before passing. Watson up to roughly 40,000.

7.45pm: Here's a little known fact, little known to anyone but readers of the PokerStars blog. Daniel Negreanu sits today in the high roller event alongside some of the established stars of poker, as well as a man from Canada named Darus Suharto, with whom he has shared a table before. Suharto, if you have been in a cave for the past two months, is one of the Million Dollar Men, the PokerStars Six or the November Nine, who will go to Las Vegas next month to play the World Series final table. But Suharto's journey to there also began on the same table as Daniel Negreanu at the World Series main event. He was just a mere PokerStars qualifier then hoping to make good. His dreams duly came true, while Negreanu perished early on that first day.

7.30pm: Sorel Mizzi has been eliminated, his assassin coming in the form of Johan von Till who held A-J to Mizzi’s all-in with A-7.

7.20pm: Per Ummer is hanging on despite coming out battered and bruised from a blinds war with Scotty Nguyen. With an ace on the flop the money went in, A-7 for Ummer to Nguyen’s A-5. Another cruel river card crushed all hope for Ummer. He was soon all in again with pocket sevens, called by Greg Raymer’s K-Q; a mercy double up for Ummer but he still floats around the danger zone.

7.10pm: There have been fireworks elsewhere. Team PokerStars Pro ElkY Grospellier moved all-in pre-flop with pocket queens and was called by Daniel Negreanu holding A-K. The ace on the river busted the PCA winner.

Chris Moneymaker will join him on the rail. He got his chips in with the best possible hand pre-flop, showing aces, called by pocket kings that found a third on the river card.

7pm: The payouts for the high roller event have been made official...

1st – £516,000
2nd – £327,000
3rd – £241,000
4th – £189,000
5th – £137,500
6th – £103,000
7th – £86,000
8th – £59,000
9th – £51,000

6.50pm: On what is one of the most fiersome looking tables ever concocted, seating as it does Juha Helppi, Philippe Rouas, Greg Raymer, Per Ummer, Scotty Nguyen, Jani Sointula and Chris Ferguson; Raymer takes down a pot against Rouas, taking his stack to close to 30,000. A pre-flop re-raise and a bet on the flop of 4c-8d-2d and Rouas had a decision to make. He took a while over it but folded.

6.30pm: The latest chip counts

Daniel Negreanu, 75,000
Sami Kelopuro, 55,000
Dennis Philips, 54,000
David Benyamine, 44,000
John Juanda, 42,000
Scotty Nguyen, 37,000
Max Pescatori, 36,000
Isabelle Mercier, 35,500
Tom "Durrrr" Dwan, 34,000
Jani "Hellraiser" Sointula, 33,500
Jason Mercier, 30,000
Andre Akkari, 25,000
Illari Sahamies, 25,000
Alex Roumelotis, 24,500
Dave "Devilfish" Ulliot, 23,000
Juha Helppi, 21,500
Greg Ramer, 21,000
Soren Kongsgaard, 20,000
William Thorson, 19,000
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, 19,000
Chris Moneymaker, 18,000
Barry Greenstein, 15,000
Per Ummer, 13,000
Peter Eastgate, 12,000
Steve Zolotow, 12,000
Sorel Mizzi, 7,500
Chris Ferguson, 5,000

6.20pm: Jason Mercier tangled in a pot with Masaaki Kagawa, raising pre-flop from middle position and getting called for a flop of Td-8s-Jh. Mercier checked but was forced out of the hand by Kagawa’s raise of 4,500. The EPT San Remo winner is still above average though with 29,000.

Meanwhile a tense pot developed between recent WSOP Europe winner John Juanda and Liya Gerasimov. Things slowed down after the 3d-3h-2s flop. Gerasimov checked in the cut off leaving it to Juanda on the button to make it 5,200 to go. Eventually Gerasimov called for a turn card Qh. Gerasimov checked again but Juanda was still intent on big bets, making it 8,500 this time. There followed a five minute spell where Gerasimov re-arranged her chips but she opted not to go on.

6.00pm: Play resumes with blinds at 200/400 with a running ante of 50.