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Now WSOP 2008 is over and winner of the event was Peter Eastgate from Odense, Denmark. He is 22 years old and he is the youngest player ever to win World Series of Poker Main event. Phil Hellmuth was the previous record holder, he was 24 years old when he won WSOP. Peter Eastgate won the first prize of $9,1 million. The heads up was between Peter Eastgate and Ivan Demidov from Russia. Eastgate was the chipleader when the heads up begun, but Demidov was playing very well at first and doubled up and was up to 50/50 in chips. After 208 hands of the final table Demidov raised for 1,95 million in chips and a call from Eastgate. Flop came 9-7-6. After flop Demidov bets over 3,6 millions and after some time Eastgate called.Turn Was J. After turn it was check-check. River was Q and Demidov bet 7 millions. Call by Eastgate and Demidov had A-10, a bluff, and winner of the pot was Eastgate with his J-8, got a pair of Jacks.
Eastgate was the first Dane who won the WSOP main event and the second bracelet winner after Jesper Hougaard.

This is the results of the Final table of WSOP 2008:

1: Peter Eastgate $9,152,416
2: Ivan Demidov $5,809,595
3: Dennis Philipps $4,517,773
4: Ylon Schwartz $3,774,974
5: Scott Mongomery $3,096,768
6: Darus Suharto $2,418,562
7: David Rheem $1,772,650
8: Kelly Kim $1,288,217
9: Craig Marquis $900,670

Congratulations to Peter Eastgate for the first prize at the WSOP 2008.

On Thursday WPT annonuced that they had sign a sponsorship with Fulltiltpoker.net. This site is an ecducational site and this site is is being run by Full Tilt Poker.
Full Tilt will be a big sponsor when World Poker Tour is aired at Fox Sports for season 7. This will be 26 episodes.
Big Poker companys had sponsored a WPT event this season. Pokerstars had Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure. Party Poker had the event The Party Poker Million and Ultimate bet had an event called Ultimate bet Aruba Poker classic.

On Full Tilt you can play with the poker pros, including Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, Jennifer Harman and many more. You can also chat with them and ask them about what ever you want poker related.
There is still no times for when tro air the WPT season 7 but it will be annonced before 2008 is over.

Now the first EPT Budapest is finished and the last man standing was a pokerstars players Will Fry. Will is from Nottingham in UK and won $595,839 in first prize money. He also won a seat to the EPT grand final in Monte Carlo. This was Will Fry´s first big live event and he ended up winning it. He was up against Ciprian Hrisca from Romania heads up. The last hand of the tournament came after about 5 hours play and lookeed like this:
The put all the chips in before the flop and they showed the cards, Fry had J-J and Hrisca had A-6. The flop was 10-Q-6 and there was a little hope for Hrisca. But nohing came and J-J won the hand, means that Will Fry won the EPT Event. Pokerstars player Johnny Lodden who is from Norway by the way, was out at 8^th place winning $53,200. On place seven was the hungarian player Zoltan Toth with a winning of $78,736.
The swede at the final table, Martin Jacobson finished 3^rd. He ended up winning $197,904.
In EPT Budapest there were 532 poker players attending, and the Buy-in was $4000+$350. This event was held in Sofitel Hotel in Budapest. Next EPT event is in Warsaw and is from 15-19 November.