GAVIN GRIFFIN WINS RECORD EPT GRAND FINAL

Gavin Griffin of the United States won the 2007 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final, beating out 705 of the world’s top players to scoop the first prize of €1.825m ($2.5m).

Griffin, who became the youngest player to win a World Series bracelet in 2004 at the age of 22, qualified for the EPT Grand Final via a $240 Double Shoot out satellite on PokerStars.

 

The EPT Grand Final took place at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel in Monaco. The six-day, €10,000 buy-in event generated a prize pool of more than €6.6 million (over $8.8 million) – by far the biggest for a tournament in Europe, and a record outside of Las Vegas.

A total of 24 PokerStars online qualifiers, including 3rd place finisher Soren Kongsgaard of Denmark (€610,550), made the money in Monte Carlo, taking home €3.77m ($5m) -  more than half of the total prize pool.

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	First Name	Last Name	Country	PokerStars status	Prize
1	Gavin	Griffin	USA	PokerStars qualifier	€1,825,010
2	Marc	Karam	Canada		€1,061,820
3	Soren	Kongsgaard	Denmark	PokerStars qualifier	€610,550
4	Kristian	Kjondal	Norway		€471,180
5	Josh	Prager	USA	PokerStars qualifier	€391,550
6	Steve	Jelinek	UK	PokerStars qualifier	€305,270
7	Andy	Black	Ireland		€238,910
8	Ram	Vaswani	UK		€159,270

EPT Season 4

The EPT season 4 kicks off in late August in Barcelona. Duthie said: “We are hoping to add more events next year and are talking with several casinos. This year we added the German Open in Dortmund, and the Polish Open in Warsaw, and both events sold out.”