Peter Eastgate has become the youngest WSOP Main Event Champion ever.   Eastgate from Odense in Denmark, broke Phil Hellmuth’s age record which has stood for the last 19 years. 

Eastgate dropped out of college to embark on a poker career.  A move reportedly supported by his parents.  This would probably be considered quite unusual to get such backing, but it sure has paid off.  We look forward to watching Eastgate’s progress over years to come.

1 $ 9,152,416 Peter Eastgate
2 $ 5,809,595 Ivan Demidov 
3 $ 4,517,773 Dennis Phillips 
4 $ 3,774,974 Ylon Schwartz 
5 $ 3,096,768 Scott Montgomery  
6 $ 2,418,562 Darus Suharto 
7 $ 1,772,650 David “Chino” Rheem 
8 $ 1,288,217 Kelly Kim  
9 $ 900,670 Craig Marquis

PokerStars has annouced that they aim on providing enough qualifiers so that they can send a whopping 1000 players to the 2008 WSOP Main Event.  There will be satellites available at all buy-in levels from $2 upwards.

 Players will win a $12,500 package, including the entrance money for the main event, and money for expenses

Additionally if any Pokerstars qualifying player makes the final table of the main event there will be a bonus reward of between $100,000 and $1,000,000.   If you are lucky enough to win the event, that means they will pay that person $1million extra!   No easy task to final table it, but the extra bonuses sure are a nice extra incentive.