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WSOP Champ Peter Eastgate signs with Poker RoyaltyWed, Nov 19th, 2008 @ 12:00am Peter Eastgate, who just won the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event, recently selected Poker Royalty for worldwide management and marketing representation across all major platforms, including media, sponsorship, licensing, commercial endorsements and appearances, to help him leverage his win. The 22 year old, from Odense Denmark, displaced the longstanding record held by Phil Hellmuth for being the youngest poker player to ever win the WSOP main event in Las Vegas. Eastgate earned just over $9 million in the 2008 WSOP ($9,119,517 to be exact), outlasting 6,844 opponents from 72 different countries in the longest World Series of Poker in history. The agency will help Eastgate make moves designed to help him profit from the exposure of his win. "Peter is the epitome of the young, intelligent and fearless online poker professional whose game has translated fantastically to the world of live tournament poker," said Jim Erwood, Poker Royalty Director of European Operations, who will lead Eastgate's management team in Poker Royalty's London office. "It is a very unique opportunity for us, because he's a very marketable twenty-two year international player with $9,000,000 in the bank. Peter can afford to be very selective with the endorsement relationships he chooses and align himself with opportunities that suit him perfectly."
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