April 23rd, 2009 by admin

November of last year saw two very talented young poker players facing off at Rio’s Amazon Room in Las Vegas fighting for prestige, respect and US$9 million jackpot that went with the World Series of Poker main event. Both Ivan Demidov and Peter Eastgate won over thousands of entries for the biggest event in professional poker and their championship clash certainly fulfilled expectations at the event.
Eastgate eventually emerged the winner in the closely-fought final round but both players can claim victory with their greatly enhanced reputations as poker sharps. These two gentlemen will add to the fascination of the world’s biggest on-line poker site when they join Team Poker Star Pro. They will be expected to play in a series of events around the globe under the aegis of the Poker Stars banner
According to Demidov, the poker tour will let him travel by playing in several off-line live events and he looks forward to playing other great poker players belonging to the team.
On the other hand, Eastgate continues his winning streak and announced he will not squander away his winnings by investing wisely in businesses that will provide good and consistent returns. Like his rival Demidov, he had started playing via the Internet and graduated to live events as his expertise grew.
Both of them will see action at the Poker Stars’ EPT San Remo and EPT Grand Final to be held at Monte Carlo. However, only Demidov will take part in the upcoming Russian Poker Tour in Moscow in May. Not surprisingly, both players expect to compete again in the 2009 WSOP.
For the week, an interesting bit of news is that banned Justin Bonomo can compete again in the Spring Championship of On-line Poker. Poker Stars hopes he has matured and will not repeat his transgressions anymore. Bonomo has incredible talent and determination and plays as a pro sponsored by Bodog.