At the end of a four-day tournament, the former marketing manager triumphed heads-up against American superstar Phil Ivey to take the top prize in the €5,000 buy-in No Limit Texas Hold'em event.

She gained fame as a regular on Channel 4's Late Night Poker show and recently presented the popular BBC series Balderdash & Piffle.

Thang Duc Nguyen, a 42 -year-old chef from Hamburg, Germany, won €487,397 at the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour in Baden, Austria.

At the end of the four-day tournament, Nguyen triumphed heads-up against New Yorker Ben Johnson to take the top prize in the €5,000 buy-in No Limit Texas Hold'em event.

Nguyen - originally from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam - has had some impressive wins in recent months, including two final tables in September's PokerStars.com World Championship of Online Poker picking up a total of €35,000.

Prior to this win, Nguyen said he wasn't ready to give up his day job as a chef, but admitted he is now considering "taking a nice family holiday".

De Wolfe, 27, a former poker writer, beat a tough field of 389 players in the four-day No Limit Texas Hold'em event, which generated a total prize pool of €1,847,750.

PokerStars qualifier David Tavernier, 50, - a Parisian anaesthetist who plays poker as a hobby - came second for €314,120, with 23-year-old Swedish pro William Thorson taking third place for €184,780.

Andreas Hoivold has lifted the EPT German Open trophy here in Dortmund, Germany, collecting a massive €672,000 - but, boy, did he have to work for it.

The Norwegian, 35, clawed his way through a gruelling seven-hour final table using his undoubted talent and cheeky sense of humour to win many new friends, as well as the cash.

This victory makes him the second Norwegian to lift an EPT title this season, after Erik-Bjorn Glenne's stunning success in Barcelona.

This Danish player always stacked his chips with military precision, and had a cool methodical style of play, this made his assault on this EPT title look almost effortless.

He showed remarkable poker skills during the €10,000 buy-in event and became a tournament favourite after it was revealed that his pink-dyed hair was to mark his involvement in the Avon Walk for Breast cancer charity.