Germany has scored yet another major poker victory tonight with PokerStars qualifier Martin Finger taking down the €5,3000 EPT Prague Main Event for €720,000.

He joins a growing roster of German speakers who have walked away with EPT trophies this season – Ronny Kaiser (from Switzerland) won the season’s first event in Tallinn, Martin Schleich won EPT Barcelona and Benny Spindler won EPT London. As well as the title and cash prize, Finger, 21, from Frankenberg in East Germany, also received a stunning bracelet from EPT Season 8 Official Bracelet Sponsor Shamballa Jewels worth more than €10,000.

Business science student Finger, a Supernova Elite on PokerStars, won his seat to Prague via PokerStars’ step satellites. He took up poker three years ago, kicking off in home games with friends before finding his way into online poker. Although today’s victory was his first ever EPT Main Event cash, he has had considerable success on the tour already - runner-up in the EPT Barcelona €1k event for €42,000, third in the EPT Barcelona Heads-up tourney in Season 7 and ninth in a €1k EPT7 Berlin side event.

He said: “It feels really amazing to win. I feel great. It was a pretty tough final table but I just tried to be really aggressive and it worked.” Finger is having a knee operation in January so won’t make it to the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas but he says he plans to play a lot more EPTs in future.

His victory came after a grueling four-hour heads-up battle against Dutch banker David Boyacin. Boyaciyan, 32, is a recreational player who took the poker world by storm last month when he won the Amsterdam Master Classics for €382,200. His runner-up finish here in Prague has netted him another €535,000.