In case you haven't been living under a rock since yesterday morning you probably heard that the 2011 WSOP Main Event is over and that Pius Heinz, from Germany, is the champion. After defeating Martin Staszko in heads up, Heinz received the diamond bracelet and an amazing first place prize of $8,715,638. Add to that that he's the first German in WSOP history to win the Main Event.
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Joined: Feb '11
Location: Germany
Age: 33 (M)
Posts: 1859
"All you need to know" and not even the screenname (MastaP89) is mentioned Also,maybe it should be mentioned (but it's probably simply not been done enough reseach by the newswriter? (should work on that)) is that he only has about 50% of the win,as he sold about 50% of his action to other people. mbn to be one of them
Joined: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 46 (M)
Posts: 6714
Did PS sign him before he entered the main event? Or are they glory hunting. He was on a huge downswing before WSOP and was about to quite the poker life, 22 is a very young age to have so much money, hope he uses it well.
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Portugal
Age: 46 (M)
Posts: 4843
The profile of Pius reminds me of a recent discussion we had at BRM about the best age to start playing poker, or to start learning about poker. Playing for real its only available with 18 in most countries, but: is it safe to start teaching someone in early ages? Are we addicting someone to the game just for doing that? Pius didn’t played poker for the first time with the age of 18, no one believes that. He’s living with the money he does from poker since he has 18!
Joined: Feb '08
Location: Switzerland
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 210
I hope he manages well his new wealthness, it's difficult to keep his solid game with so much earnings so fast, if he plays too big he may lose big really quickly
