11 Nov 08 Eastgate Wins World Series of Poker
Peter Eastgate won the World Series of Poker main event early this morning, pulling down a cool $9.1 million. Eastgate, a 22 year-old professional poker player from Denmark, became the youngest player ever to win the WSOP, beating Phil Hellmuth’s record by two years. Hellmuth, poker’s bad boy, called to wish him luck yesterday afternoon.
It became clear that second-place finisher Ivan Demidov had no read on Eastgate last night, he was much too aggressive when Eastgate held very strong hands. Demidov, who took home $5.8 million, ended the tournament by going all-in when Eastgate was sitting with a wheel straight. None of the final table players had been able to read Eastgate over the past two days. The night before Dennis Phillips wound up in third place by attempting a bluff when Eastgate was holding a set of threes.
The final table action will be shown tonight on ESPN.
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