The PartyPoker.com Premier League in London is underway, with 12 of the world'd best players battling it out over an exhaustive and innovative competition structure.

The groundbreaking format, developed by Matchroom Sport, features 12 of the world’s best players playing in a unique league for a million prize pool. The event takes runs until 16 February and will be first broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK in late March and then distributed internationally.

The field is formidable and includes Phil Hellmuth, Dave ‘The Devilfish’ Ulliott, Tony G, Andy Black, Ian Fraser, Roland De Wolfe, Vicky Coren, Juha Helppi, Eddy Scharf, Annie Duke, Marcel Luske and Alexander Kravchenko.

With a system developed especially to showcase the legendary poker prowess of each player, they will play six heats in the preliminary stages. The leading four players will then progress to the final table with the next four battling it out in heads-up matches for the final two seats.

Each player pays a buy-in of ,000, with PartyPoker.com adding 0,000 to make the pool million, up from 0,000 last year. Tony G was the 6/1 favourite to win with PartyBets.com at the off.

As the League approaches it's final stages, it's the formidable Tony G who tops the points table, with 28 points, with Andy Black and Roland de Wolfe also well positioned to make the final.

Points table after 4 heats:
Tony G 28
Andy Black 23
Roland de Wolfe 20
Eddy Scharf 16
Annie Duke 15
Alex Kravchenko 15
Vicky Coren 11
Dave Ulliott 9
Ian Frazer 7
Marcel Luske 7
Phil Hellmuth 5
Juha Helppi 4