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2008 WSOP champ Peter Eastgate came up just short of an EPT title in London. (Bodog Beat Image)

The EPT London wrapped up in the wee hours of this morning (or was that tomorrow or yesterday? stupid time zones…) and crowned a new champion, Aaron Gustavson, but the real story was how close another champion, Peter Eastgate – 2008 WSOP Main Event champion, came to winning.

As if determind by fate, Eastgate started at the final table in second place with a 2 to 1 chip deficit to chip leader Gustavson and would enter the heads-up battle in the same position with the same deficit. Unfortunately for Eastgate, destiny was apparently getting tired and needed to go ahead and wrap things up and go to bed because that heads-up battle only lasted for seven hands before Gustavson laid claim to the EPT London title.

Even with a second-place finish, Eastgate takes strides toward placing his name among those to keep an eye out for on the international poker tournament circuit and not just some luckbox who managed to win the biggest prize in poker.

Here are the full EPT London final table results and payouts:

1. Aaron Gustavson – £850,000
2. Peter Eastgate – £530,000
3. Nikolai Senninger – £285,000
4. Martin Gudvangen – £227,000
5. Dominic Cullen – £173,000
6. Rui Milhomens – £124,000
7. Raymond Wu – £87,000
8. Karim Bennani – £50,100

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