Season 3
The Grand Finale at Monte Carlo
Here's how the final table players stacked up as they headed into final table play.
- Seat 1: Ram Vaswani (UK) 432,000
- Seat 2: Steve Jelinek (UK--PokerStars qualifier) 758,000
- Seat 3: Marc Karam (Canada) 1,742,000
- Seat 4: Andy Black (Ireland) 683,000
- Seat 5: Soren Kongsgaard (Denmark--PokerStars qualifier) 1,612,000
- Seat 5: Josh Prager (USA--PokerStars qualifier) 1,593,000
- Seat 7: Gavin Griffin (USA--PokerStars qualifier) 2,597,000
- Seat 8: Kristian Kjondal (Norway) 1,203,000
Marc Karam and Gavin Griffin were heads-up in the last leg of the EPT Season 3 finale at Monte Carlo. Both had enough to last out and neither was giving the other much ground to move up. It took until the end of the 25,000/50,000/5,000 level for the final hand to play out. Gavin made it 150,000 to go pre-flop and Marc re-raised to 400,000. Gavin called. The flop came 3-2-4. Marc upped the bet to 500,000 and Gavin raised it to 2 million. You could hear a pin drop as Marc called out “All-in”. After a few more minutes of painful introspection Gavin called in.
Marc forcefully put his 4-7 on the table. Top pair, seven kicker. Gavin showed K-5. The turn was a three and the river seemed to come down slow.
The river was a king, and just like that, Gavin Griffin had won the EPT Grand Final. Marc Karam, who had played a fantastic game finished in second place with a prize pool of €1,061,820.
