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The poker grapevine: Peter Eastgate heads to the sidelines
Posted by: Jo Martin - Tue, 2010-07-13 03:47
In a rather surprising turn of events, Peter Eastgate, PokerStars pro, has announced the other day that he was retiring from poker indefinitely. Such announcements are relatively common in the poker world: Saun Deeb was one of the players who had announced his retirement, only to return to the tables almost immediately. Gus Hansen, the Great Dane, plagued by huge losses has also said he was quitting a while ago. Mike McDonald is among the “quitters” too, but he doesn’t quite seem to be able to stay away from the green felt either.
While all these players are more than well known in poker circles, none of them is a
WSOP Main Event Champion like Eastgate, so in that respect, the Dane’s decision did indeed come as a surprise to most specialists.
Eastgate has declared that it had never been his plan to spend the rest of his life playing poker. He could sure have fooled us the way he was making deep runs and final tables all over the world in the last 20 months.
Upon making his announcement, Eastgate pointed it out that he lost all motivation to play the game and that he enjoyed the support of his family and of
PokerStars in the decision he’d made.
In other news:
Full Tilt Poker has announced its XVIIth FTOPS schedule. If you’re looking for some WSOP-like online poker action, the FTOPS is definitely the Series for you. The buy-ins are more reasonable and the fact that no travelling is involved, may save you a ton of money on the side. The 17th edition of the popular online poker series will kick off on August 4th and it will wrap up on August 15th. There will be no fewer than 34 bracelets awarded, and about $19 million will be featured in guaranteed prize-pools.
