Peter Eastgate won it. Age 22. New Great Dane. It\’s too late, of course for the newspapers (East Coast, at least) to get the results into the paper … so you\’ll have to watch it plausibly live on ESPN!
(Actually, I suspect a few midwestern papers, at least, will be able to get something in at the last moment — or they\’ll just use the internet … bummer that it didn\’t go a bit longer?)
A few notes from the coronation:
The Poker Royalty agents exchanged little smiley fist bumps upon Eastgate\’s victory. Not sure what that means — but I gotta think a young online Scandi pro has got to be relatively marketable.
Where\’s Norman Chad? Nick Geber is taking on the role as post-game interviewer.
Eastgate doesn\’t speak fantastic English, and though the Danes will likely be taking some hefty tax (an issue broached by Geber), he can still probably afford a lot of Rosetta Stone. The Danish early-career Dirk Nowitzki of Poker? OK, bad comparison … but it\’s late, people are tired, and, frankly, there\’s kinda an eerie calm in the Penn & Teller Theater, as the enormity of Eastgate\’s achievement still seems to be setting in.
