They called them the Million Dollar Men, the November Nine and the PokerStars Six. But everyone knew that when the smoke cleared there could only be one of them left standing. And now we know his name. The 2008 World Series Main Event champion is 22-year-old Peter Eastgate, from Odense, Denmark. It took four hours of tense heads up competition against … [Read more...]
2008 World Series: Demidov defeated, Eastgate makes history
November 11, 2008 By
Peter Eastgate wins 2008 World Series of Poker Peter Eastgate has just become the youngest ever winner of the World Series of Poker Main Event at age 22. The players saw a flop of 2d-Ks-3h. Ivan Demidov checked and then called a bet of 1,250,000 from Eastgate. The 4c fell on the turn. Demidov checked, Eastgate made it 2 million, and Demidov raised … [Read more...]
World Series 2008: Heads up for rolz
November 11, 2008 By
Eastgate opens biggest lead yet In one hour, we saw one big hand, and that's all it took to put Peter Eastgate in dangerous lead. It was a min-raise to 2 million from Demidov and a call from Eastgate that dropped the Td-Kd-7c flop. Both players checked and saw the Jd on the turn. Eastgate bet out 2.5 million and Demidov bumped it up to 5.5 more. Eastgate, … [Read more...]
2008 World Series: The sound of the moment
November 11, 2008 By
This has been Peter Eastgate's hour. Though the past 60 minutes was cut by one-third due to a break, Eastgate has used this time to pull out to a better than 3-1 chip lead over Ivan Demidov. Though humble, Eastgate was confident coming into the match tonight. Just before he sat down, he spoke to our video blog team. Check out the interview below. Watch … [Read more...]
2008 World Series: The sound of the moment
November 11, 2008 By
This has been Peter Eastgate's hour. Though the past 60 minutes was cut by one-third due to a break, Eastgate has used this time to pull out to a better than 3-1 chip lead over Ivan Demidov. Though humble, Eastgate was confident coming into the match tonight. Just before he sat down, he spoke to our video blog team. Check out the interview below. Watch … [Read more...]
World Series 2008: The professionals
November 11, 2008 By
Earlier today a media release came around to all World Series reporters describing the tournament in numbers: 124 countries represented at the Main Event, 39 years the World Series has existed, 7,000 hours of footage taped by the television crews, that kind of thing. The final statistic read "6 - The number of years in a row an amateur has won the … [Read more...]
World Series 2008: The professionals
November 11, 2008 By
Earlier today a media release came around to all World Series reporters describing the tournament in numbers: 124 countries represented at the Main Event, 39 years the World Series has existed, 7,000 hours of footage taped by the television crews, that kind of thing. The final statistic read "6 - The number of years in a row an amateur has won the … [Read more...]
2008 World Series: Capacity crowd for history
November 11, 2008 By
And so it begins. It took nearly 120 days for this very moment.Two men from distant lands face-to-face in a battle for poker immortality. Thirty minutes ago, Michael Buffer (yes, the Michael Buffer) introduced Ivan Demidov and Peter Easgate and belted, "Lets get rrrrrready to shuflllllllle and deal!" The crowd, as you might expect, went wild. There … [Read more...]
2008 World Series: Capacity crowd for history
November 11, 2008 By
And so it begins. It took nearly 120 days for this very moment.Two men from distant lands face-to-face in a battle for poker immortality. Thirty minutes ago, Michael Buffer (yes, the Michael Buffer) introduced Ivan Demidov and Peter Easgate and belted, "Lets get rrrrrready to shuflllllllle and deal!" The crowd, as you might expect, went wild. There … [Read more...]
2008 World Series: Which way will the mountain topple?
November 11, 2008 By
It looked for weeks as though it might never end, but now it almost has. The longest Main Event in World Series history--four months in the making--has finally come down to its last two players. Peter Eastgate of Denmark and Ivan Demidov of Russia are less than an hour away from taking the gloves off and going bare-knuckle for this momentous first prize, … [Read more...]