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| Peter Eastgate - 2008 WSOP Main Event Champ |
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 Eastgate reached the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) heads-up stage along with Ivan Demidov, and won the first place prize of $9,152,416. By winning the Main Event at age 22, he became the youngest WSOP Main Event champion, surpassing Phil Hellmuth, who was 24 when he won the 1989 World Series of Poker championship.With 18,375,000 in starting chips, Eastgate's odds of winning the Main Event were 4-1 according to Danny Sheridan of USA Today — the same odds Sheridan gave Scott Montgomery who had 19,690,000 in starting chips, but weaker odds than Ivan Demidov (at 3-1 with 24,400,000 in starting chips) and Dennis Phillips (at 3-1 with 26,295,000 in starting chips).[4] At the final hand, Eastgate had more than 120 million in chips, and Demidov went all in with about 16.45 million chips. Eastgate beat Demidov at 2:33 AM local time, after a two-day final table consisting of 274 hands that took 15 hours and 28 minutes to play. Eastgate qualified for the Main Event via the Ladbrokes Poker website, and travelled to Las Vegas as part of Team Ladbrokes. He subsequently changed his allegiances to Pokerstars Other poker events Prior to the WSOP, Eastgate's live tournament results included a money finish in the 2008 European Poker Tour event in Copenhagen and a final table finish at the 2007 Irish Poker Open. Eastgate's previous biggest win was $46,714 at the 2007 Paddy Power Irish Open. As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $9,200,000. Comments
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