Among the 573 hopefuls who entered the fight for this year’s Partouche Poker Tour main prize, the victor was German poker player Ole Schemion, who took home the lion&s share of the Euro 5 million prize pool.

The final table was a fierce one, including the German ace, Karen Sarkisyan (Russia); Aaron Lim (Australia); Dan O’Brien (USA); Marcello Marigliano (Italy) and Fabrice Touil (France), of whom it was Russian player Karen Sarkisyan who secured his seat in the heads-up with Schemion.

The German had a strong chip lead and even though the two briefly discussed a chop, they failed to agree, which enabled Schemion to secure the win shortly afterwards along with the Euro 1,172,850 first prize.

As for Sarkisyan, he took home a second placing pay check worth Euro 693,494.