Peter Eastgate wins 2008 WSOP

It was a long wait for the final table known as the November Nine, but the 2008 WSOP winner has now been crowned and it's 22 year old Peter Eastgate . The young man from Denmark defeated Russian Ivan Demidov to become the youngest winner of the WSOP Main Event championship ever !

According to USA Today, As friends from Denmark jumped around and shouted in the seating area, Eastgate displayed hardly a hint of a smile while posing for photos in front of cash piled on the green felt table.

"I guess I haven't really realized how big this is," said Eastgate, who erased the youngest-winner record set by Phil Hellmuth at 24 in 1989. "It will come in the next weeks or the next days. I will become very emotional at some point."

The two-day final table play took 274 hands and 15 hours and 28 minutes play and the total WSOP Main Event winnings for the young pro comes to staggering $9,152,416 in prize money !

The next question I would have is was postponing the final table really worth the wait. I had not heard much at all in the news leading up to the game...and that was supposed to be the reason for the big wait. But then again , with the Presidential Election this year it could have been just a bad year to get the publicity they were expecting . I guess we'll just have to wait and see if it paid off ....

In the mean time I'll be looking forward to see who can maybe win a seat to the Aussie Millions and become the next big time poker winner at the felt !

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