Poker Million Finishing up this week

Full Tilt’s Poker Million VIII is finishing up this week as the second chance turbo heat begins today and the live final will take place this Friday. The live final will be up for viewing at Sky Sports and one player will win $500,000.

The final three heats will take place this week before the final table. The second chance turbo heat will begin tonight at 10:15 pm and will feature several poker pros. Gus Hansen, Antonio Esfandiari, Bradley Craig, Christian Harder, Yevgeniy Timoshenko and Michael Tureniec will be competing for a spot at the final table.

Wednesday night at 9pm other poker pros will be fighting for their spot at the final table. Paul Zimbler, Tony Bloom, Nam Le, Luke Schwartz and Annette Obrestad will all be competing. Thursday will see the final semi-final with James Akenhead, Tom Dwan, Taylor Caby, David Chu, Dag Martin Mikkelsen and Daniel Bowden all competing.

Eddie Hearn the managing director for Matchroom Sport commented:  "The Poker Million final is always one of the most exciting dates for the poker diary. 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.”