Peter Eastgate Poker Fan

Peter Eastgate was featured as the former world champion for the WSOP 2011, which will begin shortly. There's just one problem: He might not play.

”The way it looks now," Eastgate told PokerListings, "I am probably not playing the WSOP Main Event.”

Luckily there are plenty of other excellent Danish players to pick up after Eastgate.

In 2010 two Danish players went very deep in the Main Event.

Most of the focus was on Theo ”The Silverfox” Jørgensen, who had the chiplead for a long stretch only to bust before it got really exciting.

Peter Eastgate was featured as the former world

champion for the WSOP 2011, which will begin

shortly. There's just one problem: He might not

play.

”The way it looks now," Eastgate told

PokerListings, "I am probably not playing the

WSOP Main Event.”

Luckily there are plenty of other excellent Danish

players to pick up after Eastgate.

In 2010 two Danish players went very deep in the

Main Event.

Most of the focus was on Theo ”The Silverfox”

Jørgensen, who had the chiplead for a long stretch

only to bust before it got really exciting.

Peter Eastgate has returned to poker after a brief absence from the game. Taking the World Series of Poker Main Event back in 2008, the Danish 25 year old star became the youngest player to land the title before being succeeded by John Cada in 2009. This year will see the legendary Eastgate step back into the limelight with new plans of a return to competitive poker on the cards. Eastgate has confirmed that he will be making an appearance at the European Poker Tour Event scheduled to take place in Copenhagen later this year.

Peter Eastgate was one of the late comers at the EPT Deauville: Day 1B, but put in a master performance. Peter Eastgate arrived about 90 minutes after the start of play and burrowed his way to a seat right at the most unreachable area of the tournament room. That's not a far-flung corner, rather slap bang in the middle of a densely packed jam of tables.

It was another big year for the game of poker in 2010 and the biggest of them all has to be Peter Eastgates's retirement. It appeared as though a star was born in the early morning hours of Tuesday Nov. 11, 2008.

22-year-old Peter Eastgate turned a wheel and it held against Ivan Demidov's two pair making him the youngest World Series of Poker Main Event champion in history.

Eastgate collected the massive $9,152,416 first-place prize and with it all the spoils bestowed upon the winner of poker's most prestigious title.

Peter Eastgate's bracelet has auctioned for $147,500. By Thursday morning, after 116 bids, the auction was closed. The winning bid of $147,500 went to “7***l,” whose identity is protected by eBay privacy rules. That bid came in at 5:38 a.m. PT, just 22 minutes before the auction closed.

Eastgate, the winner of more than $9 million at the 2008 WSOP, put the bracelet on sale early last week to help children via the charity UNICEF. Earlier this year, Eastgate abruptly retired from poker and did not appear at this summer’s WSOP.

Poker legend Peter Eastgate has announced his retirement from online Poker. Playing online poker means being able to play UK casino games like blackjack, roulette and pub fruities at the same time.

Former World Series of Poker main-event champion Peter Eastgate has dramatically quit poker on the eve of the tournament which thrust him into fame and fortune.

Scott Seiver stormed through the competition on Day 1 of the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) $25,000 High-Roller Bounty Shootout at the Venetian. Seiver ousted all six opponents at his starting table to move on to Day 2.

Seiver collected a $5,000 bounty for each player knocked out, or $30,000 total. In addition, his appearance at Thursday’s final table in the $25,000 buy-in event is worth another $75,000. All told, he’s a very happy camper heading into the finale, which will air as part of ESPN2’s coverage of the NAPT beginning in April.

NBC aired the elite eight of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship on Sunday. Four of the eight poker pros were World Series of Poker bracelet winners. The tournament wraps up this Sunday, May 23rd, on NBC.

Eight-time WSOP bracelet holder Erik Seidel took Peter Eastgate to school in their matchup. Eastgate lost pots of $30,000 and $40,000 to be down 10-1 in chips. On the final hand Eastgate committed his stack with Q-7; Seidel held K-6 of diamonds. The board came 7-10-5-K-5, giving Seidel a pair of kings and a trip to the final four.