Peter Eastgate from Denmark has become the 2008 World Champion of poker, taking down the World Series of Poker Main Even in Las Vegas.He won $9,152,416 after besting 6,843 players to become this years best player.
And at the age of 22, he also set a new record by being the youngest ever WSOP Main Event champion, a record that had previously been set by Phil Helmuth Jr. in 1989 (when he was 24 year old).
In previous years they simply kept playing until one player had all the chips. For the first time ever this year, they played down to the final nine, and then handed them all about $900,000 about four months ago. They then invited them back to finish off a couple of days ago. By doing it this way, it was more of a surprise who had won, since the TV coverage beat the magazines to the stands. So unless you really wanted to look up online who had won, you could enjoy the surprise of the TV coverage.
Now personally, I was a little skeptical about this concept, but I think it went really well. And I applaud Harrah's for taking the WSOP franchise and continuing to expand upon it.
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