Mats Iremark, a little-known Swede, has won the French Open stage of the European Poker Tour (EPT).

The town of Deauville in France hosted the 434 poker players that took part in the event this weekend with each contestant paying a €4,000 buy-in fee.

First prize in the competition was a sizeable €480,000, while Iremark also bagged himself a spot at the EPT Grand Final to be held in Monte Carlo – worth an estimated €10,000.

Some of the bigger poker players that played in the event included the Hendon Mobster Ram Vaswani, Marcel “The Flying Dutchamn” Luske and Isabelle “No Mercy” Mercier.

The 2004 WSOP champion, Greg “Fossilman” Raymer, took part but was unfortunately the first player to be knocked out of proceedings.

Both Mercier and Vaswani made it to the final table after some strong play but were eventually eliminated in seventh and fifth place respectively.

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