World Series of Poker Main Event 2008 Final Table with $9,100,000 First Prize

The final table of the 2008 WSOP Main Event sees Craig Marquis, Chino Rheem, Darus Suharto, Scott Montgomery, Ylon Schwartz, Dennis Phillips, Ivan Demidov, and Peter Eastgate battle for the $9.1 million top prize!
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[@ardoin_337]

I do want to give my respects to pokerGO for uploading this whole tournament, was a great watch during the Christmas holidays

[@rogeeeferrari]

Poker go does NOT deserve any props, they have ruined this event for viewers...

[@jakehedges2846]

@@rogeeeferrarihow

[@Nuksukow]

Respects to pokergo? This was available for free to watch whenever til pokergo bought it out and ruined everything

[@da.5489]

it was on the internet already... its not like they created the content. Infact since they started streaming the main event it became unwatchable unfortunately.

[@philip-op6de]

wtf u talking about? PokerGo had all these WSOP videos REMOVED, just so they could repost them. PokerGo is destroying the poker community 🤦‍♂️

[@asulllz]

Actually wild phillips just looked thru the mucked cards after eastgate rivered the 6 😂😂 how was this not a penalty?? Lmao

[@gabrielsalinas1655]

For sure… also who cares you folded a whatever you folded it’s not your hand anymore

[@LarsAndersen-ig9yt]

When players are in a pot with Peter Eastgate they just go on PUNTING MODE. Amazing to watch. Peter Eastgate on the other hand decided to give the bookmakers $5 million according to an interview he gave.

[@AsoSnT]

what do you mean he gave 5M to bookmakers ? he gambled his 9M away ??

[@OKG2000]

22:14 roflll Kelly Kim celebrating the chop like he won and he is fully justified

[@Brazzer16]

Eastgate had unbelievable luck at that final table

[@iamhorcruxer]

Feels good to lose that chip lead, be at risk of busting in 7th, then gettin bailed out to get back up to your starting stack. Probably feels deserved and like justice, when it shouldn’t.

[@saljablo2767]

Name a main event champ that didn’t

[@iamhorcruxer]

2 people bluffed into him with the nuts

[@Lou-Meatskavitch]

​@@saljablo2767Phil Hellmuth, lol

[@Kanders190]

Literally every player there was extremely lucky to even get that far. Blows my mind that some people don't understand tournament poker.

[@kingart23]

PokerGo you releasing stuff outside paywall makes so many fans for your bussiness!

[@billysikes1374]

Phillips should have said all in or just folded the AK to Demidov, then when flop came, Dennis said, I raise, nerves gave his hand away

[@mrjweb3586]

Eastgate came outta nowhere and crushed it.

[@andrehanderson]

"That is one polite short stack."

[@dan_morgan]

The best part of the whole tournament - 1:31:53. 😂😂😂

[@NicolaiHenri]

So deserved that one, whining baby 😂

[@twoforone241]

I now want Video recaps with music for the tournys I play

[@6thwilbury2331]

In watching the 2007 Main Event coverage, I was trying to figure out why Jesper Hougard looked familiar. Fast forward to this episode and the "hoeba hoeba hoeba" chant, and it's a "OH! That's what where I know him."

[@Kosmisch1987]

For some reason when I think about 2008 I always remember Phillips coming in second lol I always forget it was Demidov.

[@mikefingers8909]

yeah me too. i was surprised after re-watching this. i was probably thinking of Darvin Moon who finished 2nd in 2009. another amateur player with a sports cap.

[@NewTears1]

Class from Marquis, that was brutal

[@NorthDT]

What's you don't flat with AK, Dennis had to jam preflop there or fold.

[@barryschalkwijk9388]

hitting a 2% 6 of diamonds on the river is just filthy.

[@Telgrm.me.on__Tbr_schmitt]

why does a 6 of diamonds win over his aces?

[@donniemcneil6709]

I will comment and like every one of these...eventually. You’ve been sharing these for over a month, genius move as far as squeezing every dime out of these. I wonder how far you going up to?

[@MOONRAK3R23]

@11:39 Phillips should’ve 5 bet shoved pre. Bad play all around!

[@ManicMindTrick]

Everybody bluffing away their stacks.

[@mrgarfer]

big mistake that limp re-raise with AK by Phillips. That's a man without a plan.

[@andybehmke8308]

Montgomery played all that time and got so lucky and then just gave them away. On A 9 and A 3

[@GreenThumbFreedom]

Everyone just feeeeding Eastgate towards the end. Everyone bluffed off their entire stacks with air... so crazy.

[@FloydMaxwell]

What a one-of-a-kind WSOP Main Event champion -- zero emotion when he won. And then, two years later, "Eastgate put his main event bracelet up for auction on eBay with a starting bid of $16,000. It eventually sold for $147,500 and this money was donated to UNICEF" -- who does that?!

[@SovietWrath]

It feels like im watching flags move around and vanish instey of the battle. Less team flag button holding and more showing the action. Cant see it through the flags.

[@Y2jakeSnake]

Demidov played well I was rooting for him either him or Eastgate..

[@shadowdawg04]

Of course you were....

[@Y2jakeSnake]

@@shadowdawg04 what's wrong with that?

[@shadowdawg04]

@@Y2jakeSnake Nothing especially, just easy to root for aggression...

[@6thwilbury2331]

@@shadowdawg04 Hey it's possible. During last year's Super Bowl, I was rooting for either the Chiefs or the Eagles. And the year before that, I wanted the Rams or the Bengals to win. In 2021, I wanted the Chiefs or the oh you get the idea.

[@shadowdawg04]

@@6thwilbury2331 Oooo trying to be profound... and fckn failing on a grand scale - seems you have answered your own question 🤔 🙄 🤡

[@Milkywayboy]

That has to be the only main where the final 2 only saw 2 hands

[@6thwilbury2331]

Haha funny. This one lasted a little more than a hundred (105). But the 2004 heads-up between Raymer and Williams really went almost as quick as the ESPN broadcast showed. That might be the shortest.

[@CamoDrako]

"6, 6, 6" "6 zero times haha" 💀 that will always be the worst bad beat I've ever seen when you take into account the occasion of it being a final table

[@austinbensman6953]

Brutal beat for Marquis but isn’t that a huge blunder shoving when Kim has less than 2 big blinds.

[@sureshots98]

😲 that 6 on river.... Worst bad beat of the night.

[@AzerArazoglu]

Привестуваю всех! Кто может помочь как попасть таких турнирах? Заранее благодарю кто поможет.

[@ЭрендженМанджиков]

Приятно смотреть играют по карте .

[@davidsobel-mt6cl]

Was glad for demark😂

[@Ematched]

Man, I really, really hated the entire November 9 concept.

[@carminegatti948]

Baciato dalla fortuna

[@CollierMessick]

1:10:23 can someone explain how 3 6s beat 4 As?

[@xavierbonin2290]

Theres only 3 aces and the 3 fours with the 2 aces gave the other guy a full house

[@bg0420]

Peter Eastgate is the best player to win

[@louiem2]

Was Chino Reem a pro? Not sure if this was mentioned...

[@Robespierre7]

ESPN tells us he is a top pro, then admits he was broke (and almost certainly deep in debt) going into main event. Some pro

[@razmatazz8921]

The board kept hitting Eastgate hard in the head

[@Airzy_723]

Chino celebrating too early rookie move for a pro 😂

[@anandguruji83]

2008 WSOP CHAMPION PETER EASTGATE 1:30:46 1:30:48

[@anandguruji83]

2008 WSOP CHAMPION PETER EASTGATE 1:30:46 1:30:48

[@ristolovers3574]

Very Lucky

[@shojaejlali1290]

First hand with aq vs ak the ak should have shoved rather than called. Shoved or folded. The other player was better and ak is a tricky hand. If you're calling of a third of your stack preflop with ak you'd be better off shoving, it seemed obvious to me that the raising and re raising then re re raising with those hands was because they would rather take it down pre flop....ak.....shove its a tournament and some of these European players are hyper aggressive with a hand like ak stick it to em!😂

[@brianminnotte9688]

that Scott Montgomery had to be the luckiest person by far.....its fitting he gets 1 outed to get bounced

[@billysikes1374]

Agreed, Eastgate was so lucky too, Schwartz was the best player for sure, then Demidov

[@dm6187]

​@@billysikes1374I think Demidov was the best player. The commentators said that during the break before the November Nine, he won two more tournaments and finished 3rd in the WSOP Europe main event.

[@RyanWow65]

That Eastgate 66 v A3 1 outter still one of the worse beats ever.

[@ThanhNguyen-qs3ct]

All luck this round!

[@unclenoob3062]

the entire November nine thing was ultimately bad for TV poker

[@filmsjaviersanchez]

Peter Harpo Eastgate.

[@Poker.MB4]

minut 1:10:28 can the player review the dealer´s cards? wtf

[@JohnDoe-tx6uy]

While I appreciate Pokergo for providing this, I have to admit I skipped a lot. Very much the commercialization of everything. The sponsor badges, the announcer, commercials and short clips every 20 seconds, and the 'November Nine' idea in general. It's a tough watch if you like to watch poker being played rather than marketed.

[@beringelo]

Why so many adds??? Annoying

[@victorfrankenstein50202]

I’ve never seen anyone with more blood-shot eyes than Dennis Phillips. What’s the story? No sleep? Alcoholic? Pink-eye?

[@yuhyuhtheindigo7085]

Looks like whiskey eyes to me

[@jeffreyhill4302]

how dose 3 6 beat 3 aces

[@billysikes1374]

Hellmuth there just pulling against Eastgate and other 23 year old, That's the only reason Phil was there

[@spencerosei2616]

Allin with 910 wtf

[@Pawz1337]

the 6 on the river is so ugly... Phillips folded one.

[@jaya.h5605]

Now l know how to win the World Series of poker,just hit sets and trips every other hand and finished it with flushes and straight in between, I got it it’s easy 😂😂😂

[@cabbagefever]

1:07:18 dude looks like he eats chapstick

[@ryanlarsen9235]

See 1:22:15 for one of the worst moves in poker history . Just awful. Total Fail

[@michadegraaf4570]

86 of hearts and 10 8 of hearts were straight flushes Norm ;-) Besides all the full houses. K of hearts of just a bluff catcher

[@jyaok2513]

The easiest champion. Hit set hit straight and have everyone give him chips

[@nicolaspanella2450]

eastgate runs bad

[@PokerJunkie83]

Montgomery got karma with that lonely 1 outer 6 on the river.. he sucked out on someone with the ace of diamonds which was his only out after shoving with A4 off against his opponent holding a jack and flush draw on a Jack high board with flush possibilities… other guy made the right read for basically his entire stack and got smacked by a suck out .. poker Gods with the karma slap back on Montgomery 😂😂

[@sixredfish6115]

That's poker for ya! Get crushed or get sucked out on.

[@shadowdawg04]

Karma - wtf are you smokin'.... LMFAO!!! Eastgate & Cada - don't mistake luck for skill!

[@saljablo2767]

Poker gods and karma isn’t real

[@Will-xe7yy]

Wtf are poker players so geeky

[@joemomma1763v]

What a donkey fest

[@Lou-Meatskavitch]

I miss these older WSOP final tables. Nowadays, everyone thinks they're professionals and makes it incredibly boring to watch.

[@yuhyuhtheindigo7085]

Can we be certain Eastgate isn’t autistic

[@alemao1352]

38:34 a communist celebrating a winning poker hand 🤦

[@markusscott6696]

Last hands of eastgate are , set, set, flush, straight. That is against any odds, WSOP is rigged

[@kernadan000]

this is an edit.

[@drewwhezzy]

It's funny how much of a joke mike matusow is now. Back then people thought he was great. 🤣

[@jambreakfast4341]

He’s a multi millionaire with 8 successful businesses. Who the hell are you?

[@edyoung2621]

2008 to me will always be the most crazy year in WSOP history. The bad beats were insane some of the biggest in the history of the WSOP. it had the best fold in WSOP history (rominello folding Jack's full and being right). History was made with Eastgate, and hellmuth was the brattiest we ever saw him. 2008 was the greatest year in main event history.

[@unclenoob3062]

100%, day 3/4 episodes are probably the most entertaining poker ever was on TV

[@iamhorcruxer]

Brattiest… calling someone an idiot like 5 times, oh yea he’s jus a brat

[@nowqh]

amazing

[@robg915]

2006 was even better!

[@patricklinnehan8106]

Don’t forget about the royal flush in diamonds that beat quad aces…. One of the sickest hands I’ve ever seen, 1 in 2.7 billion is the odds

[@6thwilbury2331]

What we knew in 2008: "A number of poker pros came together tonight to support Chino..." What we knew soon after: "A number of poker pros came together tonight to collect from Chino..."

[@rockwithyou2006]

Can you please elaborate. I don't understand what you mean by collect from Chino. Is there some story I don't know about ?

[@johngonzalez6690]

@@rockwithyou2006He owed them money.

[@philip-op6de]

@@rockwithyou2006Chino is pretty famous….or infamous if you will, for owing many other pro poker players large stakes of money that he has borrowed. Guy was heavily in debt and probably still is to this day

[@jamesshaw4272]

@@philip-op6de all clear now and has the respect of the poker community

[@Peaches-lr9iz]

Schwartz fold with the king of hearts is absolutely insane! What a legend

[@Charles.Wright]

Not sure why the commentary didn't include the two straight flush possibilities? But yes, I said "holy crap!" aloud when watching around 31:00

[@wastedbread8036]

amazing fold

[@mr2gti]

The Dennis Phillips run was brilliant for the game. It gave us donks HOPE!

[@HopyHop1]

What about Moon, Yang, Gold ...?

[@shadowdawg04]

Dennis has also had two top 10 finishes in the WSOP Senior Event. In 2012, he finished second, earning $372,895. In 2014, he finished fifth, earning $153,883. These finishes make Phillips one of the few, if not the only, poker player to have three top 10 finishes and a fourth deep finish in tournaments with more than 4,000 entrants

[@robg915]

​@@shadowdawg04he played horribly at this final table. The pressure got to him.

[@shadowdawg04]

@@robg915 Crawl back to your GTO & STFU!

[@Russ668]

Dennis was the best from this group. The most relatable in my opinion. No disrespect to the others. Yang was charitable. Moon worked in agriculture. Gold is buddies with Johnny Chan and was hob knobbing with quasi celebs. Dennis was the guy the average player can relate to the most.

[@carloslugo4526]

How did Schwartz lay down The King high flush there.

[@NewTears1]

Yeah that was nutty af

[@Scott-rq7nu]

Because he doesn’t beat value and he didn’t think dude was bluffing. It’s really not that hard to figure out. Auto call those hands and you’ll be flat broke.

[@sergiodarosa1034]

Not true ​@@Scott-rq7nu

[@metallicafan99999]

Plus Ivan barreled on the river when the board paired. @@Scott-rq7nu

[@kevinobrien3577]

Demidov checked the flop so it's tough to put him on the Ace of hearts...in my opinion it's definitely a solid fold

[@Wes36Man]

Maybe its just me but I've never seen so many uber aggressive all ins with absolutely nothing at this final table

[@BrightBoreen]

Before people knew what ICM was everyone punted so hard lol

[@Secretservice709]

Scott Montgomery is a funny dude played with him quite a bit back in the 2000s

[@Voltanaut]

This was the first wsop I saw, back when I was 12 or 13. Go0d times, great series, the other events were also great.

[@mrtomyp92]

The ultimate needle when Phillips goes through the deck to show the case 6 he folded lol

[@HustlerJerbear]

Chino Rheem and Kelly Kim both have Americanized sounding voices. They don’t have foreign Asian accents.

[@Itsabigworldoutthere]

1:22:08 what was Phillips thinking? Dude jammed 15 million over a 1.5 mill bet with 10 high?!!

[@roland7584]

He just couldn't keep folding.....the best hands so he went all in with the worst hand.

[@Itsabigworldoutthere]

@@roland7584 punt and a half dude was completely outclassed at ft

[@roland7584]

@@Itsabigworldoutthere I agree...I was just using his words for his final hand. It made no sense.

[@jaksdt]

I miss the days where no one played with their chips. Now all you hear is chips, chips, chips the whole time.

[@timo5563]

Nobody runs better than Peter Eastgate. 😂

[@roland7584]

Joe Cada: "Hold my beer".

[@twoforone241]

watch him on the Cash game steams & you'll change your mind

[@timo5563]

I ment in this tournament, check final table.

[@joemehere1151]

Pretty stupid of PokerGo to play comercials instead of watching players get eliminated...

[@sixredfish6115]

It was ESPN who produced these videos and had to shill out to their sponsors.

[@TreyMK12]

ESPN used to give it out for free so it’s better than getting pay walled just to watch it.

[@4oclockHereHuhHUH]

@@TreyMK12but you paid for cable back then, a lot don’t nowadays

[@toozy101]

It's the timing of the ads, it sucks

[@jambreakfast4341]

You should cry yourself to sleep.

[@piddles11]

Amazing the first half of this episode the eventual winner is never shown. Unbelievable

[@Ludachris610]

Just started watching poker. It is really nice to see a final table of what appears to be decent people, not a bunch of aholes.

[@matthewrichard7351]

Golden age of poker.

31:30 great fold by Scwartz

[@sakikiriakidis4086]

just luck for eastgate

[@shadowdawg04]

Remember this is the first of back-to-back final tables for Phillips - no else here came close...

[@ManicMindTrick]

That is a sick run.

[@Itsabigworldoutthere]

he didn't make back to back FT's what you on about?

[@Itsabigworldoutthere]

Demidov FT'd the WSOP Europe after this think he came 3rd. pretty sick

[@carloslugo4526]

Dennis Phillips didn't Make the final table in 2010.

[@shadowdawg04]

​@@Itsabigworldoutthere Dennis has also had two top 10 finishes in the WSOP Senior Event. In 2012, he finished second, earning $372,895. In 2014, he finished fifth, earning $153,883. These finishes make Phillips one of the few, if not the only, poker player to have three top 10 finishes and a fourth deep finish in tournaments with more than 4,000 entrants

[@samyyc]

World Series is a bad look for poker, these videos just show you it’s all luck and no skill.

[@cubsfan1622000]

Why are the Russiani fans waving the Soviet flag? This was 2008, not 1984.

[@strongman4451]

Phillips is a whimp

[@byrontaft2018]

I really don't know what Schwartz and Phillips were thinking bluff shoving with nothing... Definitely could have picked a better spot to make a move. But... winning almost 3 and 4 million isn't a bad payday st all 😂

[@drewdonham]

montgomery play vs demidov was icm suicide, not too mention just plain awful, he gave up like 4M in equity to be a big shot haha. His A4 play made no sense either so he is lucky to be there but wow.

[@rmill126]

Never liked the "November 9" and waiting a few months to finish the tournament. Totally broke up the momentum and grind of the tournament.

[@billysikes1374]

Phillips just gave it away, I mean wth? 9 10 on 3 J 4 flop? He still had 15 million, Sick, just gave it to Eastgate

[@Bigbriansc]

Dennis Phillips making the final table gives me hope that as terrible as he was, I should be able to play blind and make the final table at the main.

[@philip-op6de]

You know all these pro’s were not happy Chino went out in 7th, the more chino won, the more he coulda payed them back 😭

[@Airzy_723]

2 of the dumbest poker plays I’ve ever seen back to back Schwartz and Phillips 😂

[@ryandimock8760]

Suharto prob didn't sleep right for months after that aq play

[@drewdonham]

that 74 flush by eastgate was cold blooded