You Can't Win Them All...

As I wrote in an earlier post, the former world champion, Peter Eastgate, played a good tournament. However, he experienced a bit of a cooler when he flopped a set (3 of a kind) and his opponent made a straight on the turn to knock Eastgate out of the tournament in 23rd place. He won 80.000DKR (about $15,000). The first prize of 3.6M DKR was won by a Swedish guy called Anton Wigg.

I have to say that Peter Eastgate keeps on impressing me. A lot of world champions we never hear from again but Eastgate's results speaks for themselves! In January 2010 he came in 9th at the EPT Deauville ($100k), France. In October 09 he came in second at the EPT London ($843k) and in January 09 he won the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure worth $343k. But of course the WSOP Main Event victory where he won $9.1M remains his biggest win!

You can check out his impressive record here

Eastgate Doing Good At The EPT Copenhagen

The 2008 World Champion, Peter Eastgate, is trying to make another deep run in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The tournament is part of the European Poker Tour and is by many considered to have the toughest field on the circuit except from the season finale in Monaco. This is because there are a lot of Scandinavian players and they are usually known to be very aggressive in their style of play.

Last years winner, however, came out of the US but this year it seems that the financial situation has made most people stay on the other side of the Atlantic.

The tournament is still only at day 2, so the money has not been reached yet. The prize pool is about $3M and with a first place prize of about $700k, I sure would not mind if we had a little Danish success! :D