Bertrand Grospellier took the honours in the latest stop on the European Poker Tour - the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.

The 26-year-old Frenchman, who lives in South Korea, landed a record first prize of $2 million after beating a field of 1136 players.

The event at the Atlantis Casino, Paradise Island, Nassau in The Bahamas is the biggest televised poker tournament outside of the World Series of Poker.

It was Grospellier's biggest career victory - his previous best result was last January when he finished second in the Copenhagen event on the European Poker Tour and won 309,000 Euros.

He follows Gus Hansen, John Gale, Steve Paul-Ambrose and Ryan Daut in the list of Caribbean Adventure champions.

Grospellier, known as Elky, told All In magazine: "The entire trip has been one thrilling experience after another and now I'm returning home as the 2008 PCA Champion.

"This was definitely one of the hardest tournaments I've ever played. It was a very tough field with a lot of online American qualifiers who played really well. But I really wanted this title and I would have been very disappointed not to win."

Americans took the next three spots with Hafiz Khan from California followed by Ohio's Kris Kuykendall and David Pham who hails from Vietnam but now also lives in California.

They win $1 million, $800,000 and $600,000 respectively with all seven of Grospellier's final table opponents having come through the sponsors' online method - Chesterfield's Craig Hopkins and the American trio of Joseph Elpayaa, Christian Harder and Richard Fohrenbach being the others.

Grospellier began the final table in second position with just over 3 million chips and clamed victory over Khan with a pair of eights.

The European Poker Tour now moves on to Dortmund later this month.

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The first event of the 2008 World Poker Tour is underway at the Gold Strike Hotel and Casino in Tunica, Mississippi with the tournament running through until January 20th.

There have been a series of $300 and $500 no-limit hold'em events since the action got underway on January 4 but the action really hots up next week with the $10,000 championship event underway a week on Sunday and lasting four days.

This is the sixth year of the event with David Ulliott, Barry Greenstein, John Stolzmann, Scotty Nguyen and Bryan Sumner having won the previous editions.

In the inaugural $10,000 event in 1993, "Devilfish" Ulliott edged out Phil Ivey and 158 before him to win the $589,000 top prize.

Greenstein claimed $1.3 million 12 months later as he defeated a field of 367 and there were over 500 players when Stolzmann claimed $1.5 milliom following a final table that included Nguyen.

In 2006, the entrants dropped to 327 and Nguyen notched $969,000 for his maiden WPT title and last time out Sumner took home $914,000 for overcoming 293 opponents.

Full Schedule:

Friday January 04 - No-Limit Hold'em Event 1 $300 + $40

Saturday January 05 - No-Limit Hold'em Event 2 $500 + $50

Sunday January 06 - No-Limit Hold'em Event 3 $500 + $50

Monday January 07 - Limit Hold'em Event 4 $500 + $50

Tuesday January 08 - Omaha 8/OB Event 5 $500 + $50

Wednesday January 09 - No-Limit Hold'em Event 6 $300 + $40

Wednesday January 09 - Seven Card Stud 8/OB Event 7 $500 + $50

Thursday January 10 - No-Limit Hold'em Shootout Event 8 $500 + $50

Thursday January 10 - Seven Card Stud Event 9 $500 + $50

Friday January 11 - No-Limit Hold'em Event 10 $500 + $50

Saturday January 12 - No-Limit Hold'em Event 11 $500 + $50

Sunday January 13 - Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Event 12 $300 + $40

Sunday January 13 - Pot Limit Omaha Event 13 $500 + $50

Monday January 14 - No-Limit Hold'em Event 14 $500 + $50

Tuesday January 15 - No-Limit Hold'em Event 15 $1,000 + $70

Wednesday January 16 - No-Limit Hold'em Event 16 $1,000 + $70

Thursday January 17 - Pot-Limit Omaha Championship Event 17 $5,000 + $150

Thursday January 17 - Sunday January 20 - Mega Satellites $1,000 + $60

Sunday January 20 - Wednesday January 23 - No-Limit Hold'em Main Event Championship $9,700 + $300

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Closer to home, the APAT Welsh Amateur Championship will take place at the Grosvenor Cardiff in Cardiff this weekend.

This event has now sold out.

Angus MacKenzie / Eurosport