Gavin Griffin from the O.C. California has won the most prestigious poker tournament in Europe, the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo scooping more than $2.4 million (€1.8 million) in the process.

705 players convened for the EPT Grand Final, a €10,000 buy-in No Limit Texas Hold’Em poker tournament which took place at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel in Monaco.

The six-day event 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.