Woman Poker Player Magazine

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Admin
Woman Poker Player Magazine

Woman Poker Player Magazine

Pius Heinz received comparisons to German champions Boris Becker, Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel and Martin Kaymer after he became the first German to win the World Series of Poker on November 10, 2011 in Las Vegas. The 22-year-old Heinz became an immediate sports hero in his native Germany and was even given the nickname Poker Pope Pius by the German mass daily Bild.

Heinz, who was born in Swisttal near Bonn and didn’t pick up poker until four years ago when he watched it on German television – where it’s showed often late evenings on the sport channel Sport1. Heinz began playing more and more while studying economic psychology in Cologne and then moved to Vienna in August 2011 to play poker full time.

Still A New Player

Heinz, who uses the online handle MastP89 came into the Main Event without many victories. He had won the Full Tilt Poker Sunday Mulligan for 61,000 dollars in 2010 and the PokerStars $150,000 Guarantee for 29,000 dollars. And he was one of 6,865 players who started the Main Event in July, paying the 10,000 dollar buy-in with hopes of the big money at the end. The final round was played at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino near the Las Vegas Strip, where magicians Penn & Teller often perform.