18-year-old Mike McDonald from Canada landed the jackpot at the latest European Poker Tour event in Dortmund.

The Ontario teenager became the youngest player ever to win a European Poker Tour event and took the &euro933,600 winner's cheque back across the Atlantic with him.

The tournament attracted 411 players to the Casi Hohensyburg and a massive prize fund of &euro3.16 million with three local players Andreas Gülünay, Torsten Haase and Johannes Strassman also at the final table much to the surprise of some big names.

There was a very European feel to the finale with Gulunay taking second and &euro528,500 ahead of Haase (&euro307,000) with Diego Perez Marco of Spain fourth (&euro234,200) and the Swiss Claudio Rinaldi (&euro193,000) edging out Strassmann for fifth.

Triple World Series of Poker bracelet poker winner Daniel Negreanu and Bertrand Grospellier, who won the year opener on the EPT - the Caribbean Poker Adventure - were amongst those to miss out on the big bucks.

McDonald has been in a rich vein of form following a 14th place finish at the final European Poker Tour event of 2007 in Prague plus three final table appearance during Melbourne's recent Aussie Millions.

He took the title when a pair of Kings became a set on the flop and 26-year-old Gülünay, who had bluffed the pot up to $1.4 million only had a pair of sevens, was beaten.

"He was being too aggressive ... I was more or less waiting for him to make a mistake," McDonald said in an interview with the Waterloo Region Record newspaper.

"I'm pretty happy with the way it's all worked out. Obviously I start all tournaments thinking I could win them or I wouldn't play them! Today was good though - when I had big hands, they gave me their chips."

McDonald is the protege of ather Canadian player Steve Paul-Ambrose and he told the Canadian Press that he wasn't at all surprised by McDonald's win.

"Honestly, t really - he's played a few tournaments since turning 18 and it was just a matter of time before a big score. He's a very smart kid."

McDonald also earns a place in April's European Poker Tour Grand Final to be held in glamorous Monte Carlo.

Full Results:

1 Mike McDonald (Canada)

2 Andreas Gulunay (Germany)

3 Torsten Haase (Germany)

4 Diego Perez (Spain)

5 Claudio Rinaldi (Switzerland)

6 Johannes Strassmann (Germany)

7 Thibaut Durand (France)

8 Christian Harder (USA)

9 Alexander Milav (Bulgaria)

10 Daniel Ryan (USA)

11 Tyler Friederich (USA)

12 Dan Carter (UK)

13 Manfred Hammer (Germany)

14 Jioi Kulhanek (Czech Republic)

15 Aniol Alcaraz (Spain)

16 Marco Liesy (Germany)

17 Raul Paez (Spain)

18 Peyman Mohammadzadeh (Germany)

19 Jan Heitmann (Germany)

20 Christopher Rossiter (UK)

21 Marcel Cesarz (Germany)

22 Marcel Luske (Netherlands)

23 Hugo Felix (Portugal)

24 Syikrai Istafan (Hungary)

25 Andreas Sarling (Finland)

Angus MacKenzie / Eurosport