2008 WSOP Main Event champion Peter Eastgate
Things haven't gone well for the world champions in Sydney. Peter Eastgate is the latest one to reel from a hit to his stack. It was a five-way pot that had been raised to 900 preflop by an early-position player. Eastgate was in the cutoff. On a flop of , the preflop raiser made it 5,000 to go. Only Eastgate called.
On the turn , the early-position player went all in. Eastgate called with an overpair of jacks, but he was up against a bigger overpair of kings. There was no help for Eastgate when the river fell . He's down to about 9,000 in chips.