Peter Eastgate Bio

At age 22, Peter Eastgate of Odense, Denmark, plopped down the $10,000 in cash to buy into the 2008 World Series of Poker main event. He waded his way through the 6,844-player field and secured his spot in the November Nine. Eastgate headed in to the final table fourth in chips with a shot to break Phil Hellmuth's record for youngest main-event winner. After the longest main event final table in WSOP history, Eastgate defeated Ivan Demidov heads up to receive the more than $9.1 million first-place prize.

His previous major-tournament cashes include a final-table appearance at the 2007 Irish Poker Open, as well as a cash at the 2008 European Poker Tour Scandinavian Open main event.

Eastgate went on to quickly post results after his 2008 main event victory. He won a $5,000 preliminary no-limit hold'em event at the 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, and then cashed in 84th place out of 1,347 players in the EPT main event.