WSOP Finalists Sit Down with Card Player TVPlayers Share Their Thoughts After Watching it All Play Out on ESPNby Stephen A. Murphy | Published: Nov 12, 2008 | |
 
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Of breaking Phil Hellmuth’s record to become the youngest player to ever win the main event, 2008 champion Peter Eastgate told Card Player TV, “It was like the sugar on the top.”
Now, we know the Dane is trying to improve his English, so we’ll cut him a little slack. He probably meant “cherry,” but we get the picture — it was pretty freaking sweet.
Along with the new world champion, Ryan Lucchesi of Card Player TV interviews final table participants Craig Marquis, Ylon Schwartz, Darus Suharto, and Ivan Demidov at Tuesday’s viewing party at the Lucky Strike Lanes in the Rio All-Suite Resort and Hotel. Watch the video now.
Marquis describes his “really emotional hand,” where he saw running cards cripple his flopped set to bust him in ninth place. Schwartz shares how happy he was that his big laydown was the right call, and also how incredulous he was that Planters didn’t recognize it as their “good instinct moment.” Don’t expect him to buy those nuts anytime soon.
Suharto goes through what he was thinking when he bluffed into Ivan Demidov’s flopped set, and Demidov shares his thought process when he four-bet his A-Q against Dennis Phillips’ A-K before the flop and then pushed all in after the flop in the biggest and most successful bluff of the final table.
Watch each player's interview on Card Player TV.
3 Comments
SevenKidsPoppy
1 year ago
Thank you very much, Card Player and other outlets, for your WSOP main event final table and November Nine coverage. ESPN also did a fine job until heads up play, which showed next to nothing! They must have filmed it! What are they going to do with the remaining 103 of the 105 total hands of footage that they chose not to use? Idea: Produce a final table heads up program with Eastgate and Demidov taking us through the ebb and flow of Monday's action. Why not? We had a final table episode with Fossilman in 2004, Hachem and Dannenmann in '05, and Jamie Gold in '06. Use the remaining 97% of the footage to give the viewers, for the FIRST time, a sense of how the championship was finally won. Have the people who've defended ESPN considered that ESPN and Harrah's had FOUR MONTHS to think through and adjust their 9-down-to-2-players-on-Sunday, heads-up-on-Monday, and broadcasting-on-Tuesday battle plan? They could have changed it to Saturday-Sunday-Tuesday or Friday-Saturday-Tuesday, or even KEPT it at Sun.-Mon.-Tues. if they had started Tuesday's action 7, 9, or 11 hours earlier instead of at 11 pm PST. If they're not going to do that, at least put out a DVD...
SevenKidsPoppy
1 year ago
Please change that one sentence to read "...if they had started Monday's [not Tuesday's] action 7, 9, or 11 hours earlier..."
PokerJoeK
1 year ago
2 hands of the heads-up match? ESPN is a freaking joke!!!