Peter Eastgate Wins 2008 WSOP Main Event

November 12, 2008

After playing 104 hands heads up against Ivan Demidov, Peter Eastgate sealed the deal when his ace five made a bike against Demidov’s four deuce, which made two pair, after each player put all their chips in on the turn, the river fell a brick seven of spades, which made Eastgate the youngest poker player to ever win the World Series of Poker Main Event.

Not only does Peter Eastgate receive a shiny new gold bracelet he claims a first place prize of $9,152,416. Demidov can not be too upset as he to is walking out with an awesome prize of $5,809,595. Surprising enough, Kelly Kim was not the first player out of the tournament as he came into the final table with under three million in chips, which was a super extreme short stack. It was no surprise to see Dennis Phillips finish in third place, as he came in to the final table with the chip lead. Please refer to the information below for starting chip stacks before the first hand was dealt.

Dennis Phillips 26,295,000 chips
Craig Marquis 10,210,000 chips
Ylon Schwartz 12,525,000 chips
Scott Montgomery 19,690,000 chips
Darus Suharto 12,520,000 chips
David Rheem 10,230,000 chips
Ivan Demidov 24,400,000 chips
Kelly Kim 2,620,000 chips
Peter Eastgate 18,375,000 chips

Here is how the tournament unfolded with places and winnings:

1st $9,152,416 Peter Eastgate
2nd $5,809,595 Ivan Demidov
3rd $4,517,773 Dennis Phillips
4th $3,774,974 Ylon Schwartz
5th $3,096,768 Scott Montgomery
6th $2,418,562 Darus Suharto
7th $1,772,650 David “Chino” Rheem
8th $1,288,217 Kelly Kim
9th $900,670 Craig Marquis

Peter Eastgate is professional poker player out of Denmark and has been playing poker since high school. He is not shy to the live poker scene and has reached final tables of the Irish Poker Open 2007 and an European Poker Tour tournament. He is currently sponsored by PokerStars and will be in the poker spot light over the next few years. Congratulations Peter.

Written by Aidan · Filed Under Poker News