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Peter Eastgate became the youngest winner of WSOP Main Event
Image After 117 days the 2008 WSOP Main Event resumed and final table started in the Penn & Teller Theater at the Rio. 

The theater was filled with many supporters, family members and poker fans and among them the loudest was a support team of Dennis Phillips. 

Final table chip counts:
 Dennis Phillips (26,295,000)
Craig Marquis (10,210,000)
 Ylon Schwartz (12,525,000)
Scott Montgomery (19,690,000)
Darus Suharto (12,520,000)
 David Rheem (10,230,000)
 Ivan Demidov (24,400,000)
 Kelly Kim (2,620,000)
Peter Eastgate (18,375,000)

When the action started, Dennis Phillips was sitting on the top of the leaderboard, followed by Russian Ivan Demidov. The bottom position was destined to Kelly Kim, who was expected to be the first player to fall. However it was Craig Marquis, who went out first with $900,670, when his pocket sevens were cracked by Montgomery's A-Q on a 10-A-7-J-K board.

The very next hand became the last one for short-stacked Kim, who was almost allin before even seeing his hole cards, as he had to pay 400,000 as a big blind. He finished the eighth and went home with $1,288,217.

David "Chino" Rheem lost couple of big pots, then doubled up and in his last hand he pushed all in with A-K, but he was sent to the rail (7th place, $1,772,650 ) by Eastgate with A-Q after an additional queen hit the flop. 

The other player eliminated was Darus Suharto by hand of Scott Montgomery. Suharto moved all in with A-8, Scott Montgomery tabled A-Q and when Montgomery made the nut flush, Suharto was done (6th place, $2,418,562).

Montgomery wasn´t enjoying the game for much longer, as he was the next one to fall. His A-3 was dominated by Eastgate´s pocket sixes, but than A-Q-4 came on flop. Turn brought another A and, as Phillips mentioned that he folded a six, Montgomery was in the good position to double-up. But unfortunately for Montgomery, the card which appered on turn was the six, Eastgate made full house and Montgomery reached to the rail with $3,096,768 for his 5th place.

Four-handed play lasted almost two hours until Eastgate made full of kings and eliminated Ylon Schwartz with unimproved A-10, so 4th place and $3,774,974 was maximum he could make. 

Former chip leader Dennis Phillips finished the 3rd ($4,517,773) when his unlucky bluff was called by Eastgate with flopped set. After his elimination the action was stopped and Dan Peter Eastgate with Russian Ivan Demidov returned the next day.  

The heads-up chip counts:

Peter Eastgate - 79,500,000
Ivan Demidov - 57,725,000


There was 104 hands of heads-up until the winner was known. Just once early in the day Demidov became the chip leader, but since that Eastgate was winning one big game after another. In the last game Demidov pushed all in on the river with two pairs, but Eastgate called with the wheel, what means that 27-years old Russian as the runner-up got $5,809,595 and young former accountant took the title, the coveted bracelet and the first prize worth of $9,152,416.

 
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