Peter Eastgate Auctions off WSOP Bracelet
This was published 21-11-2010Peter Eastgate, the former professional poker player, made an announcement last week that he intended auctioning off the bracelet that he won at the 2008 World Series of Poker.
The 25 year-old Dane has already put the bracelet up for auction on eBay and some die-hard poker fans are not exactly happy about the situation as they feel that it is a complete disregard for this World Series of Poker bracelet.
However, Eastgate has revealed that although he is still extremely proud of his title he never wears the bracelet as he does not ever wear any jewelry and thought that by auctioning the bracelet and watches and giving a hundred percent of the profits to UNICEF, a lot more people will hopefully benefit from the jewelry.
The bracelet has a reserve price of $16,000 and anyone interested has until 25th November to place a bit at eBay.com. The bracelet is described as a “unique piece” that is made from 180-carat white gold “paved with 291 diamonds on the face” with the words “World Series of Poker 2008” hand-painted in silver alongside suits of black and red cards.
There have already been 39 bids on the item, with a current top bid of $45,100.00.
Peter Eastgate was the youngest player ever to win a World Series of Poker main event bracelet and managed to hold onto that title for a year until Joe Cada broke the record in 2009. Eastgate has amassed more than $11 million in live poker tournament winnings, thanks mostly to the World Series of Poker and he enjoyed more success after the 2008 World Series of Poker main event by coming in 2nd place at the London Open Poker Stars EPT – Season 6, when he won over $1.3 million and has during this year won almost $300,000 in live poker tournaments.
