Peter Eastgate

He Joins Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth and Others

Peter Eastgate, the 22-year-old World Series of Poker main event champion, has become a client of the poker player representation agency Poker Royalty.The Denmark native is now the newest “name” poker player thanks to his WSOP championship win, and Poker Royalty, the poker player representation firm with a who’s-who list of clients, plans on helping him earn much more than the $9.1 million he won Tuesday morning.Poker Royalty, which just opened a European office in London last month, represents what it call the kings and queens of poker, and they include Daniel Negreanu, fellow Dane Gus Hansen, Patrik Antonius, Scotty Nguyen, Greg Raymer, Phil Hellmuth, and others.The next question is which online poker room Eastgate will sign on with as a professional. He was one of PokerStars’ “PokerStars Six,” which the site built an online promotion around. (The other five final table players on the “six” team were runner-up Ivan Demidov, third-place finisher Dennis Phillips, fourth-place finisher Ylon Schwartz, sixth-place finisher Darus Suharto, and seventh-place finisher David Rheem.)Eastgate should prove to be a marketable player in Europe for whichever site signs him. The Dane is still mastering the English language, but for the poker-mad continent that is Europe, it seems the sky’s the limit for him.Poker Royalty has been successful is landing non-poker advertising gigs for some of their clients. Hellmuth appeared on WSOP-sponsor Milwaukee Best’s beer cans this summer, Negreanu, Hellmuth, and Nguyen all have starred in a Diet Pepsi commercial, and Gavin Smith served as the national spokesman for Black Velvet Canadian Whiskey

BY: BOB PAJICH bob.pajich@cardplayer.com
PUBLISHED: Wednesday Nov 12, 2008 02:35 PM