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ATLANTA (AP) A 19-year-old freshman from the University of Georgia has won the European Poker Tour's Grand Final Saturday.

Jeff Williams, of Dunwoody, had entered the day as the only American remaining in the tournament.

According to the PokerStars-dot-com website, the teenager took home a roughly one-million-dollar grand prize shortly before 5 p-m eastern time in the Monte Carlo, Monaco tournament.

The nearly 300-player tournament, which included 38 other Americans, began Wednesday.

Professional player Marcel ``The Flying Dutchman'' Luske was eliminated in seventh place. The tournament also included two World Series of Poker champions -- 2004 winner Greg Raymer and this year's champion, Joseph Hachem of Australia.

The teenager won entry to the ten-thousand-Euro ($11,914) tournament by winning a 40-dollar online poker tournament last month on the Web site PokerStars.com.

The smaller tournament granted him entry into a larger, 650-dollar online poker tournament that allowed its top nine players to play in the E-P-T Grand Final.

Williams, who said he has not played many large-player tournaments, said the only thing keeping him from playing other tournaments in the future is his age he must be 21 to play in U-S casinos. In Europe, the legal age is 18.

(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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