Over the last few days, 75 high stakes poker players from around the globe have been competing in England for a top prize worth over $850,000, at the PokerStars European Poker Tour's London High Rollers Event.

Since its auspicious start, those 75 players have been whittled down to a lean eight that includes an internet wizard, past World Poker Tour champion and a member of last year's November Nine.

The final eight players of the 2009 PokerStars EPT London, ?20,000 buy-in, High Rollers event are as follows:

Erik Cajelais- 893,000

Matt Glantz- 647,500

Eugene Katchalov- 530,000

Adolfo Vaeza- 468,000

Leo Fernandez- 460,000

Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies- 311,000

Dennis Phillips- 218,500

Shane Reihill- 236,000

The final table of the EPT High Rollers event is set to play down to conclusion at noon local London time, for more information or for updates from the event, visit the PokerStars blog (www.pokerstarsblog.com).


Story by Mark Anderson