Peter Eastgate and Ivan Demidov Join Team Poker Stars Pro

PokerStars has recently announced the signing of World Series of Poker champion and runner-up Peter Eastgate and Ivan Demidov to its team of pros. Both players will promote the PokerStars brand in online and live events and will represent the site at various global poker tour circuits.

Eastgate (pictured left), from Denmark, became the youngest-ever WSOP main-event champion at the age of just 22, beating out a record previously held by Phil Hellmuth when he won at the age of 24 in 1989. Eastgate put college aside to focus on his online play, and it is clear that the move paid off handsomely to the tune of $9,152,416. Eastgate proved he was no fluke in January of this year when he pocketed $343,000 for winning the $5,000 event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.

Despite finishing second, it was Demidov (pictured right) who really turned heads throughout the year, thanks to his unheard of accomplishment of final-tabling both the WSOP main event and the WSOP Europe main event in the same year. The 27-year-old Russian earned $608,995 for his third-place finish in Europe and then weeks later took home $5,809,595 at the Rio in Las Vegas.

Both players represented PokerStars throughout the WSOP final table and continued to do so in a limited capacity in the months after. They have since been upgraded to Team PokerStars Pro and bring the number of pros on the roster to 35, joining the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Vanessa Rousso, Chris Moneymaker, Joe Hachem, and Greg Raymer. Click here to see the entire team.

Both players will be playing on the site under their own names.

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