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Watch the Eastgate vs. Demidov rematch replay
Monday, June 29th, 2009
You might have heard about a little game PokerStars threw for charity this past weekend. It featured the top two finishers in last year's World Series of Poker Main Event, Peter Eastgate and Ivan Demidov.
PokerStars set up the game to replicate the exact circumstances of last year's heads up match, right down to the stack sizes, blinds, and antes. The only thing not in play was the big prize money.
We won't tell you how it turned out (you can go back and find our report if you want to read along), but you can watch the highlight show below, courtesy of our good friends over at PokerStars.tv.
Watch Online Poker Show: Eastgate Vs Demidov: The Rematch on PokerStars.tv
Eastgate vs. Demidov: The rematch
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009Ali vs. Frazier.
Holyfield vs. Tyson.
Eastgate vs. Demidov.
The latter may not be the most famous rematch of all time, but it stands to be exceptionally entertaining.
We all know how it ended the first time. In November 2008, Peter Eastgate defeated Ivan Demidov at the World Series Main Event final table. Though Demidov had, too, played like a champion, only one of them could take home the bracelet. Now, PokerStars is giving Demidov a chance to face Eastgate again, and Eastgate a chance to prove he is the rightful champion.
This Friday at 18:00 ET, the two Team PokerStars Pros will face off on PokerStars under the exact same circumstances as they did back in November. Eastgate will start with 80,300,000 in chips to Demidov's 56,600,000. With the blinds at 120,000 / 240,000 / 30,000 running ante, there is a lot of chance for this match to be pretty interesting.
While this is about a neat a idea as they come, the money won't be necessarily as significant. That said, in addition to the bragging rights, the winner will have $10,000 donated to charity in his name.
Good luck to both players.
WSOP Event #4: Ivan, the terrible hair
Saturday, May 30th, 2009
As bad hair days go, this one is a bit of a shocker. Now I'm no expert on the male hairstyle, but I'm told Ivan Demidov has quite a nice head of hair - long and flowing, the ladies call it. But today he has pitched up for the $1,000 No Limit sporting something that can only be described as, well, odd.
Gone are the free-flowing locks, replaced by a curious bead effect that makes the Russian Team PokerStars Pro, who final tabled last year's main event, look like a cross between a tyre tread and a corn dolly. The reason for this monstrous makeover? A prop bet gone bad. That's his excuse anyway.
Ivan Demidov
Someone with a bit more style, and well known to PokerStars, is rap star Nelly. Having gotten the bug for playing poker when he joined us at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo earlier this month - initially for the Ante Up for Africa tournament, but then he stayed on to play the main event - he's back for more in Vegas.
I think it would be fair to say Mr Nelly is normally quite "full-on", but as he takes his place among the heaving masses of players in the $1,000 jamboree he's gone for the covered-up look, complete with shades and hoody. Having met him a few weeks back, I recognised the tell-tale mega diamond earrings, and the blingy diamond-encrusted watch peeking out from the hoodie sleeve.
Nelly
He might be famous for singing "It's getting hot in here", but today he's been putting on all his clothes.
Gone from the $1,000 are Barry Greenstein - shoving from the small blind with K-8 but being looked up in the big blind with 3-3 - and Vanessa Rousso, who's pocket tens were overtaken by A-2.
We'll bring more news of the $1,000 in later days of the tournament - for now we'll be concentrating on Team PokerStars Pros Greg Raymer and Lex Veldhuis, who are down to the last two tables in the $40,000 No Limit event.
And we'll be keeping an eye on Chad Brown and Andre Akkari, both still slugging it out at the Omaha Hi/Low 8 or Better.
Team PokerStars Pro grabs Eastgate, Demidov
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009Team PokerStars Pro has been growing by leaps and bounds in recent months. Now, it has leaped as high and bounded as far as it can.
PokerStars announced this morning that it has signed 2008 World Series Champion Peter Eastgate and runner-up Ivan Demidov to its roster of Team PokerStars Pros. Ever since you saw the two sit down face-to-face for the epic World Series battle, you somehow knew they would end up in the elite Team Pro stable. It was just a matter of when it would happen. The "when" just happens to be today.
Though by this point neither man needs an introduction, we have a few readers who spent the last year under a rock (don't ask--it was for science), so here's a little bit about the newest members of Team Pro.
Peter Eastgate started playing cards as soon as he graduated from high shcool in Denmark. It took him little time at all to go from rank amateur to one of the world's biggest winning players. After a few mid-five-figure wins in his early career, Eastgate went to work at the 2008 World Series of Poker. After two weeks of work, a four-month delay, and a two-day final table, Eastgate did what few have been able to do before him. His $9 million win at the 2008 World Series Main Event made put him among the world's elite. Just to prove it wasn't a fluke, Eastgate went to the PCA a couple of months later and took down a side event for nearly $350,000. You can now find Eastgate just about everywhere--live tournaments, playing online at PokerStars, and even on High Stakes Poker. Look for him at PokerStars under the very intuitive screen name "PeteEastgate."
For his part Ivan Demidov doesn't seem content to be just another footnote in World Series history. The one-time StarCraft player and university math major couldn't wait for the World Series final table to play out last November. So, while he was waiting for his chance at the bracelet, he did what no other person could in 2008--he made another one of the biggest final tables in the world. In September 2008, Demidov took third place in the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event for $608,995. Then, just a couple of months later he came tantalizing close to the biggest bracelet of all. Still, his runner-up finish at the World Series in Vegas earned him $5,809,595--enough to make him the biggest winning Russian poker player of all time. Now, you can try--and we stress the try part--to get a piece of that purse by looking for the screen name "Ivan Demidov" on PokerStars.
You will be seeing both players on the PokerStars circuit very soon. In fact, you just might see them when the 2009 Spring Championship of Online Poker kicks up today.
We hope you'll join us in welcoming Eastgate and Demidov to Team Pro.
2008 World Series: Ivan Demidov
Friday, November 7th, 2008
24,400,000 chips
Ivan Demidov is the form player coming into the final table, having used his break from the World Series to play in, well, the World Series. Demidov returned to Europe after his heroics in Las Vegas and made the final table of the World Series Europe Main Event in London. He finished third, earning more than $600,000, and became the first player to make WSOP final tables on both sides of the Atlantic. He added this notable score to a near-$40,000 cash for 11th place in this year's WSOP $1,000 hold 'em event, and a string of smaller successes, including third in a side event at the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic in 2007.
Demidov is at the forefront of a sensational boom in popularity of poker in his native Russia, alongside the Team PokerStars Pro Alex Kravchenko, who came fourth in last year's WSOP Main Event. Known as "Soul" on PokerStars, Demidov only started playing poker in 2006, but is already a professional and heads to the WSOP Final Table second to chip leader Dennis Phillips, with more than 24 million in chips.
A math graduate from Moscow State University, the 27-year-old cites Kravchenko's success as inspiration for his switch to full-time poker after a prior career as a semi-professional Starcraft player. While he’s not playing poker, he enjoys skiing, white water rafting and scuba diving.
Demidov begins final table play with 24,400,000 in chips.
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