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Peter Eastgate


Poker career
Peter Eastgate (born December 13, 1985) is a professional poker player from Denmark, best known as the winner of the Main Event at the 2008 World Series of Poker; he is the youngest player ever to win that event.
Eastgate qualified for the Main Event via the Ladbrokes Poker website, and travelled to Las Vegas as part of Team Ladbrokes. Eastgate reached the final table with 18,375,000 in starting chips, the fourth largest stack behind Scott Montgomery (19,690,000), Ivan Demidov (24,400,000) and Dennis Phillips (26,295,000). Eastgate and Demidov reached the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) heads-up stage. At the final hand, Eastgate had 120.4 million in chips, and Demidov went all in with 16.5 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 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 in 1989.
In the next year’s Main Event, Eastgate made a deep run and defended his title until day 6. He was eliminated in 78th place, defeated by a flush made on the river. He was the last remaining Main Event Champion at the time of his elimination.

Poker career

Peter Eastgate (born December 13, 1985) is a professional poker player from Denmark, best known as the winner of the Main Event at the 2008 World Series of Poker; he is the youngest player ever to win that event.

Eastgate qualified for the Main Event via the Ladbrokes Poker website, and travelled to Las Vegas as part of Team Ladbrokes. Eastgate reached the final table with 18,375,000 in starting chips, the fourth largest stack behind Scott Montgomery (19,690,000), Ivan Demidov (24,400,000) and Dennis Phillips (26,295,000). Eastgate and Demidov reached the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) heads-up stage. At the final hand, Eastgate had 120.4 million in chips, and Demidov went all in with 16.5 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 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 in 1989.

In the next year’s Main Event, Eastgate made a deep run and defended his title until day 6. He was eliminated in 78th place, defeated by a flush made on the river. He was the last remaining Main Event Champion at the time of his elimination.