Well here we are! The final table is being broadcast and you can hear the crickets chirping in the halls of Cardschat.

I myself am set up on the couch with my laptop and am up for any real time (sorta) final table discussion. Anyone interested in joining me?

Rheem vs Kim
Heart attack flop with AK vs AK.
Poor shortstacked Kim had to fade a heart on the turn and the river when the flop hit Chino Rheems Ace hard.
Chopped it thank god.

Schwartz's lay down was unreal.

I can't belive Marquis hit his 7!!! I was going crazy!

Originally Posted by TheNoob

Schwartz's lay down was unreal.

God-like. who can lay down a k high flush at the final table!!!

Originally Posted by Youngerhov

I can't belive Marquis hit his 7!!! I was going crazy!

Are you kidding me????

Can you watch this online somehow?

The best laydown ever!

Ivan Demidov raised UTG with AT. Ylon Shwartz caled OB with KQ.

Both turned a flush, Shwartz King high and Demidov the nuts. Somehow, Shwartz was able to sniff him out and didn't even call a suck bet on the river. He's probably finding out only now what an amazing laydown that was.

Marquis: 7 7
Montgomery: A Q

Board: A 10 7 J K

What a way to bust out first! Kim just made 400,000.

Originally Posted by Four Dogs

The best laydown ever!

Ivan Demidov raised UTG with AT. Ylon Shwartz caled OB with KQ.

Both turned a flush, Shwartz King high and Demidov the nuts. Somehow, Shwartz was able to sniff him out and didn't even call a suck bet on the river. He's probably finding out only now what an amazing laydown that was.

no..he knew it was the right laydown, even if the board didnt pair on the end...YLON ROLLS LIKE THAT!!

Has anyone noticed that Scott Montgomery sounds exactly like Tenbob?

I dont want to ruin it for you guys.... buy there is going to be a TERRIBLE bad beat to someone coming up... even worse IMO then the way Marquis got out. It invloves 6s

Originally Posted by PokerPlayer06

I dont want to ruin it for you guys.... It invloves 6s

Obviously you did want to ruin it.

Monty is the biggest donk at this table. He just loves those weak Aces.

Demidov: K K
Montgomery: A 9

Board: 6 4 6 10 3

He never gives EP raisers any credit.

Montgomery: A 3
Eastgate: 6 6

Board: A Q 4 A
Montgomery: A 3
Eastgate: 6 6

Board: A Q 4 A
He's been living on borrowed time ever since that huge suckout to make the final table.

Then thisto put him out of our misery.

Montgomery: A 3
Eastgate: 6 6

Board: A Q 4 A 6

I love it! That was the case 6. Dennis Phillips folded 6♣

Originally Posted by Mortis

Obviously you did want to ruin it.

always one mortis...i know there is only 30 min left, but NO MORE SPOILERS!!

i would take that one-out-bad-beat for a 3$ million payday tho!!!

Yeah, Montgomery mushed himself. He called his own fate "it's going to be even sicker when the 6 hits on the river".

Fine no more "spoilers" . But the person who wins it is the......... nvm you can probally hear someone screaming right now though .

You really gotta like Demidov. Good instincts. He forces Phillips off AK with AQ, and again off A8 with A3, not to mention a pretty good laydown with Kings-up. With a 3rd place in WSOPE ME you know this kid is the real deal.

Congratulations to Dennis Phillips out in 3rd for $4.5 mil. A decent amature player, but completely outclassed by Demidov and Eastgate. He was my favorite going in and I still think he would have made a good champion. A hell of alot better than Jerry Yang or Jamie F'ing Gold.

one of the better final tables in recent years. i was happy on a personal note as i placed a small wager on who would go out first on playersonly and got paid off at 12-1. i was happy with that.

Look at that scowl on Eastgate. How does a 22 year old on-line player come by that?

Kill Phil
Peter Eastgate is the youngest main event winner in history surpassing pokers biggest asshole Phil Hellmuth.

Good night!

Originally Posted by Four Dogs

Congratulations to Dennis Phillips out in 3rd for $4.5 mil. A decent amature player, but completely outclassed by Demidov and Eastgate. He was my favorite going in and I still think he would have made a good champion. A hell of alot better than Jerry Yang or Jamie F'ing Gold.

I really like Dennis Phillips.... started to lose his chips early, and battled his way back up to 3rd place, very nice finish for him!

shoot, i wanted ivan to win. might've been good for a poker boom in russia, but this showing will still get some exposure. peter eastgate is very good (him and ivan were the best two players imo), but he's not exactly.. marketable

back to the bluffing boom...if u watch eastgate in that hand with YLON, he acted almost disgusted with the allin on the river, like he knew he was beat....

have been in that position before, and its not an easy call like everyone wants to think it is...

hats of to them all for makin it that far...and ivan and PE were the best ones, and to make it HU only makes it look good for the WSOP to do this in the future, which IMO, was a good call to do so...

thoughts on some hands:

dennis phillips played the AK vs. AQ hand so astonishingly badly. that donk 1/4 pot lead into the 4bettor on the wet board texture looks like exactly what it is. dennis is neever ever in a million years doing that with AA/KK or a set. dennis always either bets big when he has the joint, or he checks to slowplay. still, it took a ****load of guts for ivan to push his double gutter under that kind of pressure. i don't agree with his 4bet preflop though, after dennis limp-reraises, AQs shrinks

the way craig and scott went out were both pretty brutal, even though the percentages weren't hugely in anyone's favorite pre-flop. just the way the board came out combined with all the money at stake and the psychological mind**** of it all. such a sick 1 outer! and he called it too!

ylon's laydown with the K-high flush was great. i thought about the hand, and i totally understand why he did it. when ivan raises the turn, he's really polarizing his range between the nuts and air. Q high flushes and worse are just obviously never raising because they stand to get action only from better hands and fold out all worse. so once he does that, combined with the suckbet on the river, it looks like it's almost impossible for it to be a bluff. given the aforementioned polarization, he has to have exactly the ace of hearts there incredibly often. so much so that i don't know if the board pairing even mattered that much

ivan's laydown of top two pair to the very aggressive eastgate had me floored. the way the hand played, that was really amazing

It's a shame that we couldn't see more of the heads up match. I listened to it this morning (3am EST) and it was fascinating. Eastgate got up to a commanding chip lead but Demidov chipped away at it until he got it back to less than a 2:1 disadvantage and the momentum clearly going his way.

The there was that hand we saw on T.V. that took him back down to 30 million in chips. From that point on it seemed like all the wind went out of him and he gave up.

I have to say I **LOVED** this final table and found this experience really exciting. This is the first time I've watched the WSOP ME without knowing who wins it and I found that absolutely thrilling. Banner job by ESPN and should they do this next year (I hope so) I am throwing a Super Bowl like party poker (yes you all are invited).

It was a great final table
It was ruined for me though, cuz when I went to comcast.net it showed winner on the slideshow so

Originally Posted by dufferdevon

It's a shame that we couldn't see more of the heads up match. I listened to it this morning (3am EST) and it was fascinating. Eastgate got up to a commanding chip lead but Demidov chipped away at it until he got it back to less than a 2:1 disadvantage and the momentum clearly going his way.

The there was that hand we saw on T.V. that took him back down to 30 million in chips. From that point on it seemed like all the wind went out of him and he gave up.

yeah..it was a great HU duel, and went on for couple of hours if not more?? (am i correct?) and up and down. i watched and listened into the AM and kept WSOP up on cpu and had all the hands played out when i cked around noon today to see who won...

showing two hands of HU did not do these two guys justice...

Originally Posted by daxter70

yeah..it was a great HU duel, and went on for couple of hours if not more?? (am i correct?) and up and down. i watched and listened into the AM and kept WSOP up on cpu and had all the hands played out when i cked around noon today to see who won...

showing two hands of HU did not do these two guys justice...

Agreed. This was the longest FT in history at 14+ hours and they crammed it all into 2 hours, not to mention the HU portion which lasted like 2 hours in reality and 2 hands on TV. I really thought the duel between Demidov and Eastgate diserved it's own hour long show.

Speaking of doing this again next year...my thoughts are that only if the ratings turn out to be decent will this happen again.

Most of the players did not seem to secure too many patches on their shirts/hats outside of the normal poker site ones. Kelly Kim and David Rheem had some .org patches for Fallen Heroes and Dennis Phillips had a local St. Louis car shop patch.

Originally Posted by Four Dogs

Agreed. This was the longest FT in history at 14+ hours and they crammed it all into 2 hours, not to mention the HU portion which lasted like 2 hours in reality and 2 hands on TV. I really thought the duel between Demidov and Eastgate diserved it's own hour long show.

Agreed. It was one of the more entertaining final tables in recent memory. ESPN could easily make 4 or 6 hour long episodes out of that final table and heads up play. I'm surprised they didn't. They are REALLY hurting for programming.

This was, IMO, the most exciting final table I have ever seen. Mostly due to the fact that I did not know the results prior to the broadcast.

I literally stayed away from any news sites for the last 36 hours and told all my poker friends not to spoil it for me.

I hope the ratings are high because after seeing this final table I can't imagine watching the ME FT done any other way.

Also the bad beats and amazing luck by Eastgate were something to see.

I was surprised that no one was able to secure any patches of any significance. i really think that speaks volumes about the need for poker to have a champion that can represent us to those advertisers. Unfortunately, this year its not to be as I don't see Peter Eastgate being that person (I think Dennis Phillips could have been the one- oh well).

do you think the WPT would consider this approach when they do their $25K WPT Championship (i know their TV deal now does not include the broadcast of the WPT Championship). That would really be something to see.

One thing yesterday's broadcast really emphasized for me was how incredble it would be to appear on a WSOP ME FT (not just for the $ either )

Anybody know where you can find the entire payout list??