A harmless 4 of clubs hits the board exploding the pot with raises that led to eventually Denmark's, Peter Eastgate and Russian Ivan Demidov to push all the chips in the middle. The 4 gave Ivan Demidov 2 pair with 4's and 2's while it gave Peter Eastgate The straight A-5, also known as "the wheel". The straight help up making 22 year old, Eastgate the youngest player to ever win the WSOP Main Event. Eastgate broke Phil Hellmuth's age record with the win, and also netting himself over $9 million for 1st place.
Eastgate claims he never gave it much thought about breaking the record, He was just trying to focus on the game at hand.
“I wasn’t thinking about the records or anything like that.
I just was thinking about playing my game,” said Eastgate. “I spoke to (Hellmuth) yesterday.
He wished me luck and gave me a handshake.”
Guess we'll have to wait a year and see if Peter Eastgate is the next rising star,
or if he will drop into the deep pool of everyday poker players that doesn't do much
after winning such a big event. With $9 million in his wallet, I think we'll be seeing him for
a while at the tables.
Eastgate claims he never gave it much thought about breaking the record, He was just trying to focus on the game at hand.
“I wasn’t thinking about the records or anything like that.
I just was thinking about playing my game,” said Eastgate. “I spoke to (Hellmuth) yesterday.
He wished me luck and gave me a handshake.”
Guess we'll have to wait a year and see if Peter Eastgate is the next rising star,
or if he will drop into the deep pool of everyday poker players that doesn't do much
after winning such a big event. With $9 million in his wallet, I think we'll be seeing him for
a while at the tables.
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