Danish 22 year old Peter Eastgate has won the WSOP title for 2008 as well as the youngest winner of the main event since Phil Hellmuth. Eastgate managed to beat Ivan Demidov heads up at the final table winning over $9 million.

Eastgate played 104 hands against Russian Demidov. In the final hand Eastgate limped in and Demidov checked and the flop revealed K-3-2

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World Series of Poker* is full steam ahead and you can witness the action from the Final Table on 9th – 10th November 2008. The Final Table begins 9th November and continues right up until the top two players are left. The next day 10th November a massive heads-up battle will take place and the winner will receive the honorable title of 2008 WSOP* Main Event Champion.

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The second annual European Series 2008 took place last September with the final two players remaining battling it out for 8 hrs. John Juanda’s victory was well earned as he spent a record breaking 22 hours with 484 hands played up until the final table. Stanislav Alekhin was finally placed 2nd in one one the longest WSOPE heads up matches. Daniel Negreanu managed to secure 5th place.

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Scotty Nguyen won the 2008 HORSE WSOP event in a drunken state, Doyle Brunson states that Nguyen is a “good friend” and there was no excuse for his behaviour except to say that the event winner had way too much to drink.

Although Scotty Nguyen was drunk, his victory in the 2008 HORSE WSOP won him $1,989,120 which was also his first win since 2001 when he received two bracelets. Doyle Brunson stated that the tournament director should have dealt with the situation with Scotty Nguyen’s behaviour much earlier.

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One of the most popular variations of poker is Texas Hold’em and a great game to learn which is currently in full bloom due to all the television exposure received by No-Limit Tournaments like the WSOP, luckily it is rather the easy to learn the basics yet difficult to truly master the finer intricacies of the game.

The basics of Texas Hold’em are as follows, a minimum of 2 up to a maximum of 10 players can play on one table at a time in Texas Hold’em Poker, each player seated at the table is dealt two cards face down, these two cards are what is known as the players ‘hole cards’ and only the player can see and use these cards throughout the entirety of the poker hand.

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