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The World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris has finally wrapped up at the Aviation Club de France, and American poker professional Matthew Waxman emerged victorious following six total days of action, two of which represented Day 1 starting flights. He bested a final table that included Martin Jacobson, Mikko Sundell, Byron Kaverman, Fred Magen and Hugo Lemaire to win a grand prize of 518,750 Euro along with a massive WPT trophy.

The first elimination of the day went to Martin Jacobson, whose A-J suited received no help on the board and lost to the J-J of Mikko Sundell in the 27th hand. Jacobson earned a respectable 89k Euro for his sixth-place finish.

Waxman built his chip stack significantly just five hands later when heavy action from Sundell created a pot worth 3.7 million chips. Waxman completed a flush on the flop, winning the hand and leaving Sundell highly vulnerable. Byron Kaverman, who started the day with the chip lead, took advantage and knocked out Sundell on the very next hand.

Kaverman himself was the next player to hit the rail, though it took several hands and finally a massive initial bet from Fred Magen to draw his chips onto the table. Magen scored a Broadway straight, easily besting Kaverman’s pair of queens. Kaverman received just over 155k Euro for his efforts.

The 100th hand saw Waxman eliminating Magen on the strength of his A-K suited over K-Q suited, given a garbage board. Magen headed to the cage to collect 211k Euro and heads-up play started between Hugo Lemaire and Waxman. Thanks to Waxman’s huge chip lead (7.8 million over 1.5 million), heads-up pay was over in just three hands. After losing to Waxman’s flush, Lemaire scored a cool 311k Euro for a runner-up finish.