Andrew Radue

Pius Heinz is the 2011 WSOP Main Event champion, the 22 year old is the first player to win the title and bracelet for Germany. The final heads-up match featured European players Pius Heinz verses Martin Staszko when Ben Lamb was eliminated on the fourth hand finishing in 3rd place.

The chip lead switched several times between the two heads-up players, the aggressive battle last more than five hours but in the final hand the German beat the 35 year old player from the Czech Republic.

The epic Heads-up match was the longest lasting event for the last 10 years of the World Series of Poker.

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PokerStars are attempting to break their own Guinness World Record by hosting the largest online poker tournament on the 4th December 2011 as part of the PokerStars 10th Anniversary promotions.

The current PokerStars Guinness World Record which still stands was achieved in 2009 when 149,196 players registered in one tournament breaking all previous records set by Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars.

Players can be part of poker history in the latest attempt which hopes to attract more than 150,000 players to register for a low buy-in tournament of only $1 players can play for a $250,000 guaranteed prize pool.

With no US players playing on PokerStars since Black Friday the record breaking attempt will face it’s biggest challenge with only countries outside of the USA allowed to participate.

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USA Poker players have been limited in choices of online poker rooms since Black Friday, poker sites for US players are not quite up to the standards of what Pokerstars were offering the US market in terms of software, support and cashouts.

In this article we rate and review the best poker sites for us players to play plus links to download the latest version of the poker software.

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The World Series of Poker Main Event final table has played down to the final three November Nine players who will return on Tuesday to determine the WSOP Main Event Champion 2011.

The current chipleader is Pius Heinz who may just be the first German player to win a main event. Heinz has almost double the chips stack that Ben Lamb has going into the final three.

There were some pretty classic and action packed hands with the final four but the day came to an end when Matt Giannetti was eliminated shoving allin pre-flop with a weak A3 and Ben Lamb calling with pocket kings to hit quad kings on the flop.

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Play for your share of $10,000 in CarbonPoker freeroll tournaments in the Chip King Freerolls which start this November and take place every Sunday. To qualify for free entry into these online poker freerolls, players must earn 50 VIP points from the 1 November until the starting time of the weekly event.

What makes this freeroll unique is that players starting stacks are based on the amount of VIP points earned throughout the month.

Also this month players can earn 2x VIP points playing real money poker games this November. Plus the launch of Carbon Poker rake free tournaments which take place on Friday Nights in two different tournament formats Carbon Poker Fat Stack & Slim Stack Tourneys.

Carbon Poker US players are welcome to sign-up for new poker accounts, depositing players get a 100% first deposit bonus up to $600.

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