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Congratulations to Peter Eastgate, the 2008 WSOP Main Event Champion!



It took four months, 39 two-hour levels of play, and a 104-hand heads-up duel to crown our 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion. Peter Eastgate's name will be the next to be immortalized on one of those grand 20'x20' photos that will hang around the circumference of the Amazon Room at next year's WSOP, and carved into the history books alongside so many of poker's greats.

Brunson. Moss. Ungar. Chan. Ferguson. Hellmuth. And now Eastgate, a 22-year old accounting student-turned-poker pro from Denmark.

Speaking of Hellmuth, tonight Eastgate shattered a record that the Poker Brat has held for the last 19 years as the youngest WSOP Main Event winner in history. Eastgate is also the first Danish Main Event champion, as well as the fourth Dane to win a WSOP bracelet.

Soft-spoken and a man of few words, Eastgate offered praise for his final-table opponents and predicted that he'd be seeing many of them again on the tournament circuit in the months and years to come.

"I'm very proud and thank you all for coming," he said, smiling ever so slightly as he looked down at his new piece of jewelry.
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2008 WSOP Final Table to be Auctioned

The World Series of Poker is teaming up with XP Events to auction off the table used for the last of the action in the 2008 WSOP Main event, which concluded early Tuesday morning when Denmark's Peter Eastgate eliminated Russia's Ivan Demidov to secure the $9.1 million first prize.

The final table is the keystone of a series of auctions offering 2008 WSOP memorabilia from the final, the Main Event and throughout the WSOP, including decks of cards, dealer button, table felts, signage and other items. The auction began overnight at WSOPshop.com and will run until November 24, 2008.

According to WSOP Director of Marketing Ty Stewart, "This auction is the ultimate bragging rights for any home game player, to own a piece of the game's history. This is the first time that the public has had the opportunity to bid on authentic items from the World Series of Poker Main Event, and the centerpiece of the auction will be the Final Table itself. We have very passionate fans and we expect this auction to generate a lot of interest."

XP Events, which is conducting the auctions, was signed recently to a multi-year pact to be the WSOP's retail merchandising operations partner. XP Events operates the WSOPshop.com site. Said Alan Fey, XP Events' president, "The Final Table is one of the most highly-anticipated sports events of the year. Fans will be able to log onto the WSOP online store the evening of the ESPN broadcast and begin bidding on memorabilia as well as browse the wide range of other WSOP-branded items available."
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