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News Source: Uinta County News
| 11 months ago
World Series of Poker say television ratings for the event's final table this week were up about 50 percent from its broadcast last year, in part, because the show aired the same day play finished instead of months later. The World Series of Poker...
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News Source: The San Antonio Express-News
| 12 months ago
The 2008 Main Event of the World Series of Poker is finally over and 22-year-old Danish poker pro Peter Eastgate sits as the event's youngest champion and has a check for $9.15 million in his pocket. Russia's Ivan Demidov was the runner-up and won $5.
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News Source: NewKerala
| 12 months ago
Peter Eastgate won the title after beating 27-year-old Russian Ivan Demidov in the final in Las Vegas, Nevada. "I guess I haven't really realized how big this is...I will become very emotional at some point," The Telegraph quoted him as telling...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 12 months ago
Yesterday, Peter Eastgate left Las Vegas with nearly $10 million after winning the 2008 World Series of Poker. There were more than 6,000 entrants to poker's premier event but the 22-year-old Dane outlasted the game's greatest exponents to become its...
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News Source: Honolulu Advertiser
| 12 months ago
A 22-year-old college dropout from Denmark won the World Series of Poker and its $9.15 million prize, then spent the night partying with friends at a suite reserved for this city's biggest gamblers. And why not?...Peter Eastgate became the...
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News Source: Herald Tribune
| 12 months ago
Confused and jittery after failing to win a game in the second set, Novak Djokovic rallied past Nikolay Davydenko 7-6 (3), 0-6, 7-5 Tuesday to reach the semifinals of the season-ending Masters Cup. In the day's other round-robin match, Juan Martin...
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News Source: Russia Today
| 12 months ago
Ivan Demidov finished runner-up in the most prestigious competition held in the mecca of gambling, Las Vegas. Demidov lost to Peter Eastgate from Denmark but even though he missed out on the title, his payday was more than satisfactory with $US 5.8...
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News Source: The Mercury News
| 12 months ago
Peter Eastgate, the new World Series of Poker Main Event champion, will never have to work another day in his life...A 22-year-old college dropout from Denmark, Eastgate won $9.16 million Tuesday morning in poker's most prestigious and richest...
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News Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal / Sun
| 12 months ago
Eastgate, who earned $9.15 million after surviving a nearly four-hour heads-up final table with Russian Ivan Demidov in the $10,000 buy-in no-limit World Championship of hold’em at the Rio, is quiet, unassuming and seemingly said anything that was...
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News Source: Turkish Press
| 12 months ago
Nevada (AFP) A 22-year-old Dane became the youngest ever champion in the World Series of Poker here Tuesday, defeating a Russian opponent to land the 9.15 million-dollar first prize. Peter Eastgate, from Odense in Denmark, defeated Ivan Demidov of...