Thursday 18th September 2008 WSOP 2008 : Peter Eastgate step forward
While there are few records in poker which have not been broken over the last couple of years, record jackpots, record player numbers and ever increasing sponsorship interest from the business arena to name but three there is one which has remained for some time. Phil Hellmuth will be hoping that neither Peter Eastgate nor Craig Marquis bag the WSOP crown this year as they will then become the youngest winners in the history of the game!<br />
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Phil Hellmuth was just 24 years old when he crashed onto the poker scene in 1989, bagging the ultimate accolade in the poker industry, the WSOP 1989 main event. Peter Eastgate is just 22 years of age and Craig Marquis 23 years old, both of whom would qualify as the youngest winners of all time.<br />
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While Eastgate is currently in fourth place on the stack count table, some 8 million chips behind Dennis Phillips, there is a growing surge of interest in the young Dane. He has had a couple of good finishes in the past having been in the money at the 2008 European Poker Tour tournament in his homeland and survived until the last round of the 2007 Irish Open.<br />
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Peter Eastgate is a man who seems to be going places, but can he become the youngest WSOP winner of all time?
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