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6.50pm: Team PokerStars Pro Nacho Barbero wins the High Roller and £556,000 It had been coming for some time. Jani Sointula had dropped to 600,000 when he shoved over Barbero's 80,000 button raise. The Argentine snap-called. Barbero: A♦J♣ Sointula: K♥4♣ The board gave instant service to Barbero with an...more

6.20pm: Three-bet Barbero Barbero has definitely had the higher three-bet rate and that's becoming very punishing for Sointula now. The blinds are going up shortly. -- RD 6.15pm: Back to small pot poker There's been a lot of walks and raise and takes in the last half an hour....more

3.05pm: End of the level No break though, the players will play one more level before they get a 15 minute recess. -- NW 3pm: Sointula takes a slice from Barbero Team PokerStars Pro Nacho Barbero was already the shortest stack before losing the following pot to Jani Sointula. The...more

Three-handed, the result of the EPT London looked a hard one to predict. The remaining players were each sizably stacked, each had fire in their eyes, and with a dinner break on the horizon no one felt any need to be hasty. Then the earth suddenly moved, two hands collided,...more

10.55pm: David Vamplew wins EPT London for £900,000 After a marathon three hours and 14 minutes of heads-up play, in which the lead swung repeatedly from one to the other, David Vamplew finished off John Juanda to take the EPT London title and £900,000 first prize. In the end, it...more

Student Arnoud van der Werf won the £120 EPT London Charity Event in aid of Cancer Research UK. The 22-year-old from Amsterdam won when his pocket queens hit made a set on the flop against Malaysian player Tim Hong Wong's pocket kings. There were a 646 entries including re-buys. Van...more

After more than eight hours of play it was neck and neck at EPT London. With eight players remaining, John Juanda and Kyle Bowker were almost level on chips - two very good players, two very big stacks, each amassed in very different ways. At the bell though, it...more

8.35pm: How it ended for Hull As had become customary in this rather tense nine-handed battle, Kyle Bowker came in for an opening raise. If it wasn't Bowker, it was normally John Juanda. John Hull, who like many of the shorter stacks had been folding a lot in recent levels,...more

4.50pm: Juanda to the break A quiet spell on table three, with John Juanda initiating most of the action. Three hands pass, each raised by Juanda who showed ace-king in one, ace-queen in the next ("It's getting worse," he'd said). Then as the break approached Per Ummer opened for...more

As a city London is a signatory to that old western decree known as "Saturday night," the Springsteenian theory, imported from the United States that now spans the civilised world - that a town's worth is determined by its late night weekend hospitality. Sure, some may prefer an early night...more

11.50pm: Play done for the day It's been a long day but the 128 who started have been whittled down to 24. Those 24 will return and noon tomorrow and will play down to the final table of eight. A full wrap and chip counts of the days play is...more

6.14pm: Break time Another level passes us by. Players are on a 15 minute break. -- SB 6.13pm: Gift of the Gavin Irishman Fintin Gavin is usually pretty talkative at the table and when I passed by his table it was no different. He'd raised it up to 27,000 from...more

It's been a typical British autumn day outside; grey and very wet. It hasn't been dry inside either, if it's poker action we're talking about. A total of 379 out of the record-starting 848 shook and packed away their umbrellas on their way into the ballroom at the Hilton Metrepole...more

9pm: Vamplew takes the lead That's day two at an end. Englishman David Vamplew looks to be tonight's chips leader, with 1,130,400 chips. Stand by for a full report on the day's action. -- SB 8.55pm: O'Dear for O'Dea, EPT London bubble boy Eughan O'Dea, son of Donnacha, is...more

5.58pm: Raymer on a rush Greg Raymer has sprinted up to 180,000 after a nice little run of cards which included busting short-stacked Michael Binger on his first hand at the table. That's ift for the level. Join us in 15 minutes in the new post. -- SY I...more

Stereotypes are both offensive and annoying. They are offensive because they categorise huge swathes of people as acting and thinking the same way, casting the same aspersions on hundreds of thousands of people that happen to share the same birthplace, heritage or set of beliefs. They're annoying because they tend...more

11.50pm: End of Day 1B That's play done with for today. At the close it's Claudio Cecchi, from Italy, with the chip lead with 237,500. That tops Soheb Pobandarwala, the Day 1A leader, who bagged up 218,600 this time yesterday. A full wrap of the days events will be...more

7.02pm: Ding, ding, ding That's a 90-minute break for all concerned. Except for the poor dealers, of course, who have to sit and guard the chips. See you back here in an hour and a half. -- RD 6.58pm: Strassmann makes an early dash for dinner Johannes Strassmann should get...more

London has for years been a hub for world travellers. No trip to Europe is complete without a walk along Piccadilly, a photograph outside Buckingham Palace, or coming to realise that one end of Oxford Street is much better than the other. They're the kind of memories you keep...more

12.05am: Play concludes Play for Day 1a has come to an end. A full wrap of the day's play will be up for you shortly and full official chips counts will follow soon after that. -- MC 11.55pm: Last four hands Tournament director Thomas Kremser has paused the clock and...more

7.19pm: Grub's up! That's a 90-minute break for the players and three more levels when they come back. Then there's Day 1B which should be, by all accounts, a monster. -- RD 7.17pm: Wigg gets his revenge Anton Wigg has just doubled through Celina Lin with pocket tens against A♦Q♣....more