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Peter Eastgate (born December 13, 1985)[1] 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.[1]
[edit] Early life
Eastgate was raised in Dalum, a suburb of Odense, Denmark and went to Sct. Knuds Gymnasium, where he was introduced to poker by his classmates.[citation needed] He attended Aarhus University to study finance, but dropped out to play poker full-time.
[edit] Poker career
[edit] World Series of Poker
Eastgate qualified for the Main Event via the Ladbrokes Poker website, and travelled to Las Vegas as part of Team Ladbrokes.[2] 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).[3] 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.[3] Eastgate won the first place prize of $9,152,416.[1][4][5] 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.[1]
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, he was the last remaining Main Event Champion at the time of his elimination.
[edit] Other 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.[5] Eastgate's previous biggest win was $46,714 at the 2007 Paddy Power Irish Open. After his WSOP Main Event victory Eastgate took to the tournament trail and quickly found success. He cashed in the European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event and then won the $5,000 side event for $343,000[6] As of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed $9,700,000.[7]
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