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Peter Eastgate becomes youngest player to win WSOP

November 11, 2008

Peter Eastgate22 year old Peter Eastgate has won the 2009 World Series of Poker, and written his name into the history books at the same time.

The Danish professional becomes the youngest player to ever win the WSOP, beating the previous record held by Phil Helmuth by two years and he heads back to Odense with the first prize of $9,152,416 - the second largest payout in poker history.

Not bad at all, when you think that he only turned professional three years ago.

It was by no means a straight forward victory though. Eastgate originally started the final table in fourth position and was gracious enough to admit that luck had played a large part in his victory:

“I was lucky on the last hand. Ivan (Demidov) had two pair and I had a wheel. Just because I won the heads-up does not mean that I’m a better player than him. it goes to show that it is sometimes good to be lucky.”

His victory marks the end of a huge journey for the student who became “fascinated” by the  “psychological aspects” of poker while at school. It’s a journey that the PokerStars professional admits hasn’t quite sunk in yet.

“I do not think I have realized yet what a big moment this is,” he told reporters after his picking up his bracelet.

“It will come the next days and weeks. I expect I will get emotional about it later. But not as much now.”

Eastwood’s previous biggest win had occurred at the in the 2007 Irish Open when he had walked away with £30,000

Written by ShortStack · Filed Under Poker News 

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