2008 WSOP Main Event champion Peter Eastgate drew Sam Farha for his second round match. Farha, dressed in a red jacket, got the best of the Champ. Rocking the short stack, Eastgate shoved from the button with . Farha quickly called with . He stayed in the late by making a pair of nines on a flop of . The turn was the perfect sweat card; it gave Eastgate an up-and-down straight draw to go along with his outs to a pair of jacks. Farha never broke a sweat, smiling the whole time, as the dealer burned and turned another for the river card.
Eastgate is therefore eliminated in the Second Round; Farha will return later in the evening for his Third Round match.