Gavin Griffin has just won the 2007 EPT Monte Carlo, taking down a first prize of over 1.8 million euros after besting Canadian Marc Karam (aka "Myst") in heads-up competition. The American born Griffin bested a table with an international flavor, overcoming top names such as Andy Black and Ram Vaswani.

The EPT Monte Carlo was a huge success this year, drawing over 600 players and offering a total prize pool of over 6 million Euros. This is the EPT's big event, similar to the $25,000 buyin event at the Bellagio for the World Poker Tour.

After some heads-up play, the final hand went down like this. After seeing a flop of 3-2-4, Marc Karam and Gavin Griffin got all in. Their holdings were:

Marc Karam - 4/7

Gavin Griffin - K / 5

Karam had top pair, and Griffin had the open-ended straight draw with two overs.

The turn was another three, and Karam was still in the lead. The river was a King, and Griffin took down the tournament. This was Karam's second EPT Monte Carlo final table in as many years, and while I am sure he is more than pleased with the 1 million Euro payout, he must be at least a bit disappointed that he didn't take down the event.

The final eight looked like this:

1. Gavin Griffin

2. Marc Karam

3. Soren Kongsgaard

4. Kristian Kjondal

5. Josh Prager

6. Steve Jelinek

7. Andy Black

8. Ram Vaswani

Overall, a great event, with most of the top players in the world playing. Tons of great side action as well, including Phil Hellmuth dropping over $500k to Phil Ivey in one night in Chinese Poker!