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Peter Eastgate Among Chip Leaders on Day 2 of EPT Berlin

by Wicked Chops Entity on 4.7.2011 in Poker Tournaments | no comments

The girl holding the snake is doing well at the EPT Berlin.

The 2011 EPT Berlin Main Event posted a field of 773 (down a lot from last year’s 945, but hey, at least there hasn’t been a robbery yet). At about halfway through Day 2, around 200 remain. First place will bank $825,000 (EUR).

As of post-time, Thorsten Schafer is chip leader. Other notables among the bigger stacks include Thomas Bichon, Sebastian Ruthenberg, Cristian Dragomir*, a retirement-has-done-him-well Peter Eastgate, Fabrice Soulier, and Dutch field hockey hottie Fatima Moreira de Melo, a woman.

Follow the action here.

More pics of Fatima Moreira de Melo here.

* Not a real dragomir.

Tagged as: EPT Berlin, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Peter Eastgate, Poker News

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Peter Eastgate, Xuan Liu Out At EPT Copenhagen, Michael Tureniec Leads

by Wicked Chops Entity on 2.23.2011 in Poker Tournaments | 1 comment

Much like the above, a good day went bad for Peter Eastgate on Day 2 of the EPT Copenhagen.

Let’s keep this short. Day 2 at the EPT Copenhagen is done, and at the top of the chip count are three Swedes, Michael Tureniec (640k), Per Linde (514k) and Joel Nordkvist (419k).

Notable pros still among the 73 remaining include JP Kelly (416k), Johnny Lodden (194k) [our WSOP podcast w/ him here] and Juha Helppi (159k). Chipleader at the start of the day, the unknown/unpronounceable Domantas Klimciauskas, is still around with 212,200 in chips.

Not still around at the EPT Copenhagen, and ensuring our lack of interest here on out, are the unretiring Peter Eastgate and our new favorite poker playing hottie, Xuan Liu.

For a recap of the day, go here.

Photo of the aforemention Xuan Liu here.

To follow Xuan Liu on Twitter, go here.

Tagged as: EPT Copenhagen, Peter Eastgate, Xuan Liu

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Wicked Chops Podcast: Eastgate Returns, Griffin Prop Bet, and American Idol

by Wicked Chops Entity on 2.12.2011 in Poker News | 5 comments

Watch Peter Eastgate Has Had Better Days on RawVegas.tv

In the latest Wicked Chops Podcast, we’re joined by special guests Jeff “Slim” Holsey and Kristin “Change100″ Bihr to discuss the Ashton Griffin 70-miles in 24 hours prop bet (is it top 10 worthy?) and Peter Eastgate‘s unretirement (hopefully less bad days for him now, unlike the above vide).

Then we spend 30 minutes on American Idol.

Who are Hollywood Week early favorites? Does James Durbin have something more diabolical planned? Is that really Giovanni Ribisi? Who is White Ruben Studdard? And more…

Listen below or download on iTunes.

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Tagged as: American Idol, Ashton Griffin, Peter Eastgate, Podcast, Wicked Chops Podcast

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Genevieve Morton Brings You Today’s Poker News Link Dump

by Wicked Chops Entity on 2.11.2011 in Poker News | 1 comment

South Africa is to Africa what the U.K. is to Europe when it comes to models.

The poker world has more or less taken the past few days off in honor of the start of Hollywood Week on American Idol, but there’s still things worth covering…in link dump format.

:: Peter Eastgate talks why he unretired. [link]

:: Sara Jean Underwood is a cool chick. [link]

:: Ashton Griffin‘s 70 miles in 24 hours prop bet was definitely impressive. [link]

:: Although maybe not as impressive as Erick Lindgren‘s four rounds under 100 during the WSOP of 2007. [link]

:: Regardless, more on Ashton’s bet from Dr. Pauly. [link]

:: As well as Shamus‘ take. [link]

:: Nolan Dolla gets passionate and makes some good points about what went wrong with online poker regulation legislation. [link]

:: And we’ll take this as a good sign for online poker regulation being on the docket in 2011. [link]

:: There was a World Poker Tour event in Venice? [link]

:: Really? No seriously, really? [link]

:: David Williams and others sign a new clothing deal with RISE. [link]

:: And finally, a fond farewell to the Poker Beat. [link]

Get more poker news from around the Internet on PoRo Report here.

Click the thumbs for more of South African model Genevieve Morton.

Tagged as: Ashton Griffin, Genevieve Morton, Peter Eastgate, Poker News

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Peter Eastgate Retires From Poker, Won’t Play Main Event

by Wicked Chops Entity on 7.7.2010 in Poker News | 6 comments

Watch Peter Eastgate Has Had Better Days on RawVegas.tv

Smart kid, that Peter Eastgate.

The 2008 WSOP champ announced on Tuesday that he is walking away from poker and will not play this year’s Main Event. So he won’t endure any more days like in the above vid.

Copy+paste from the PokerStars blog:

“When I started playing poker for a living, it was never my goal to spend the rest of my life as a professional poker player. My goal was to become financially independent. I achieved that by winning the WSOP Main Event in 2008. The period following has taken me on a worldwide tour, where I have seen some amazing places and met many new people; it has been a great experience. In the 20 months following my WSOP win, I feel that I have lost my motivation for playing high level poker along the way and I have decided that now is the time to find out what I want to do with the rest of my life. What this will be, I do not yet know. I have decided to take a break from live tournament poker, and try to focus on Peter Eastgate, the person. I want to thank PokerStars, my friends and family for their support over the last 20 months and for their support in my decision to take a break from poker.”

Eastgate joins Paul Phillips as the only major pro to basically get out of poker as a winning player.

Tagged as: Peter Eastgate

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