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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.

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