Poker Million Final Takes Place Tonight

The largest television poker tournament of the year is set to finish up tonight live on Sky Sports 2 starting at 7:30pm. The Full Tilt Poker Million VIII will finish up tonight and viewers can tune in to catch all the action at the card table.

An unknown Full Tilt free roll qualifier will be competing alongside major poker pros such as Luke Schwartz and James Akenhead. It will definitely be interesting to see how well the pros will do against each other as well as how the online qualifier will fare.

Chips stacks are as follows: Luke Schwartz at 397K, James Akenhead at 338k, Taylor Caby at202k, Dag Martin Mikkelsen at 160k, Peter Vasiliou at 154k, Juha Helppi at 149k and the online qualifier at 100k. The winner of the event will take home $500,000 for their efforts.

"The Poker Million final is always one of the most exciting dates for the poker diary," said Eddie Hearn, managing director of Matchroom Sport. "We staged poker's first ever live televised final back in 2000 and since then it's been an event that all the top players want to take down. With the likes of Tom Dwan, Nam Le, Luke Schwartz, Annette Obrestad, Juha Helppi and James Akenhead in the semi finals, Friday night is set to be an electric night of poker.”