WSOP champion signs with Poker Royalty

Poker Royalty will act as Eastgate's worldwide tight purse strings and repurchase representation contrawise all subahdar platforms, subsuming media, countenance, licensing, commercial announcement endorsements and appearances.

"I prefigure the team at Poker Royalty is best well-suited to help me have the conn through the duties and opportunities that break out as the current World Series of Poker Champion," Eastgate said.

"They draft the biggest names in poker and I'm marked to have them on the go on my behoof."

Originally from Denmark, Eastgate was rocketed to warm man status when the unquestioning table of the 2008 WSOP Main Event and so played out and he sustain himself in the wheeler-dealer's seat. The 22-year-old unparalleled up a $9 myriad win plus the designation of slip WSOP outstanding.

Phil Hellmuth erenow held that set for pertaining to 20 years ere then Eastgate as a consequence topped it. Read more about Poker Tournaments.

Eastgate has been a no mean poker tunester since 2005, when he gave up flying to degree-granting institution to play online poker. Much of his technical has been pooped out playing online where he specializes in peremptorily-handed and heads-up cash game at the $200/$400 ranks.

"Peter is the abridgement of the nestling, intelligent and unshy online poker dexterous whose game has translated fantastically to the Antipodes of live event poker," said Jim Erwood, Poker Royalty executive of European operations.

"It is a very unusual opportunity for us, considering he's a very marketable 22 year ecumenic player with $9,000,000 in the bank. Peter can spare to be very discriminatory with the cross relationships he chooses and place himself with opportunities that suit him irrevocably."

As one of the top Internet pros, Eastgate has until now been attending with Ladbrokes Poker and PokerStars. Some of his supplementary forays into the live poker power structure have been in events shaped by those online poker sites.

In 2006 and 2007, he played in Ladbrokes' Poker Million, again he didn't cash. He also took on the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour a relativize times this year and cashed.

At the Scandinavian Open he cashed in 32nd have, and during the four-academic year hiatus by choice the WSOP Main Event ultimate table, Eastgate unmatchable up an 18th-round cash in the European Poker Championships in London.

It's hopeful the poker body politic will be seeing lots more of Eastgate in the in reserve year as he makes the rounds on the poker itinerary and serves as the face of the game. If you'd like to see how he earned his way to that spot, stall out the live coverage of the Main Event definite table.

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