Pieter de Korver Wins the 2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final (€2,300,000)

After six grueling days of poker and a record-breaking field of 935, we are down to just one -- deliriously happy and dazed Dutch freeroll champion and newly-sponsored Team PokerStars player Pieter de Korver.

Not only did de Korver battle through almost 1,000 runners, he came to the final table in not particularly great shape and was at one point down to just two big blinds. A triple-up, a double-up, another double-up and suddenly he had knocked out the former chip monster Dag Mikkelsen and was in possession of most of the chips in play with three players left -- a truly extraordinary comeback, and a truly extraordinary win.

Thus ends this PokerStars.com EPT season, and it has proved that the European Poker Tour is going from strength to strength. With the total number of runners reaching nearly 8,000 and the total prize pool over the season topping €52,000,000, this has been the tour to be on. Congratulations to all the winners, and until next season, from PokerNews.com in Monte Carlo, it's over and out.