Tournament director Jack Effel, who uses his mike to acknowledge celebrity tiffany jewelry players in the crowd at the World Series of Poker, gave a big shout out of another sort Monday.

“Let’s hear it for the money!” said Effel, drawing a roar from fans who had seen a mountain of cash piled high on a table.

Peter Eastgate, a 22-year-old from Denmark who became the youngest player to win the WSOP’s Texas Hold ‘Em Main Event early Tuesday, earned first-place money of $9.15million after beating Ivan Demidov in the longest final in WSOP history.

The two-day final table play took 274 hands and 15 hours, 28 minutes, surpassing the previous long of 14 hours, 10 minutes in 2005.

Despite the endurance, this was not a winner-take-all tournament. Of the 6,844 players who entered, 666 finished in the money. That ran from Eastgate down to finishers 617-666, who made $21,230 for the price of their $10,000 entry fees.

All nine finalists already had been paid $900,670 for at least ninth place. So Kelly Kim, 31, silver earrings of Whittier, Calif., who started the final table with the lowest chip count, was keenly aware what it meant when he finished eighth instead of ninth.

“About 380 (thousand dollars),” Kim said.

Make that an additional $387,547 that Kim got for winning eighth-place money of $1,288,217.

Not that the ninth-place money was chump change for Craig Marquis, 23, of Arlington, Texas, who dropped out of college to pursue professional poker.

“I’ll probably be playing poker for a few years. I have enough money now where I don’t have to sweat the small stuff,” he said.

For second, Demidov, 27, of Moscow, won $5.8million, which is a whole lot more than the $560,000 total that Doyle Brunson got for winning back-to-back Main Events in 1976-77.

Demidov acknowledged he will share most of his winnings with a Russian financial supporter who silver key rings helped him get here.

“I have a backer that pays for me, and, yeah, I’m going to share the monies with him, with him getting more than me,” Demidov said. “Without him, I wouldn’t be able to even come and play here.”

Such deals are not uncommon in poker. Last year, Englishman Jon Kalmar placed fifth and won about $1.26 million. He said he would share his winnings with British pros, who backed him financially.

Eastgate, who won his first WSOP bracelet, said he paid the $10,000 entry fee. Did he receive any backing that might entail sharing his $9.15million?

“That’s confidential,” Eastgate said.

There are other ways in which winnings are shared in poker. Away from high-profile tournaments, silver necklaces pros and amateurs play cash games among themselves.

When poker pro Erick Lindgren received his player of the year award for his overall performance in the 55-event World Series, he passed along a message to Eastgate and Demidov.

“Brunson told me to tell them that there is a cash game when they’re done tonight,” Lindgren said.