Former World Champion Peter Eastgate Quits Poker

Obviously a complete human being on his way to a better life. His parents should be commended for raising him to value more than just money.

here here!

a poker player who is not a sick gambler. best of success with your new life

Nothing but well wishes and the best for you Peter, the life of a gambler is not for everyone and only a few ever make it big. Good Luck

Nice move.
Best wishes young man!

Hard to believe this isn't just a result of a stretch of bad variance bringing him down. That and perhaps the hectic travel shedule and living out of a suitcase that Stars had him on. Got to believe he'll be back with a clear head after a break of some time.

he will be back for next years main event

excellent idea, dont nwaste ur life sitting in a smelly old casino next to smelly old egomaniacs who r simply gambling until they can take advantage of someone less adapt. its not much of a life. good luck

Best of luck to him.

P.S. We all need a break from poker...

Enjoy your life Peter. Means to an end, that's all.

Does anybody see the "REAL" surprise here????............... bmpek didn't make a negative and rude comment about something, WTF? Are you turning a corner bmpek?

someone less adapt?

i'm also going to do something else with my life, maybe poker or just laughing loudly on public transit

In the movies the thief always looks for that one big score before he calls it quits. But the big score inevitably goes wrong, or the thief doesn't know how to hang it up because it's all he knows.

Peter Eastgate obviously knows more than poker and all I can say is.....rock and roll, man. Make the world a better place.

mr steve's description of poker sounds a lot like our middle class jobs. Financial independence is the key word to this whole story.

Finally! A real classy, poker champ whose priority in life does not revolve on the game alone. Instead, he used poker just as an instrument to search for his real goal,

To Peter: Your candidness is really admirable. I am sure you will find what you're looking for. Good luck.

"Smart lad to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay" "Shropshire Lad"

I was reeading this story and all the great comments and truly enjoying everything about...unitl....the very end, when the inevitable happened. Which is ...of course...TESASTURDGOBLER....had to inflict his pathetic attempt to convince us all of his mighty intellect, by throwing some obscure quote that no one gives a crap about....just to show us all how brainy he is. How utterly pathetic. I have a 4 letter word for you Turdgobler...it is spelled like this...

STFU

Utterly classless remark.

If you want to rant, rant against this bogus headline. Eastgate is taking a break from poker, by his and 'Stars' admissions, not quitting the game.

If Eastgate wants to take a break or quit alltogether ... thats his decision but I bet according to his contract he has to say "break " because he cant break the agreement he made with Pokerstars...

>> GOOD LUCK to you ! Poker is not the "Be ALL" to "make all"

I was actually pretty impressed/surprised to see the A.E. Housman quotation above. Very apt use of it indeed. The set of poems as a whole are actually very insightful with regards to youth. Oldeskool...well...there's really not much that needs be said.