It’s been a strange year for poker especially online poker with the industry turned upside down on Black Friday. Online poker traffic has decrease by 31% as a result of an unstable US market.

Not all online poker rooms suffered a loss in traffic, CarbonPoker and Merge Gaming Network experienced an increase of traffic up to 76%.

Notable Poker players for 2011 include: Erik Seidel new leader on the poker all time money list, Phil Hellmuth, Ben Lamb (Player of the Year) and Pius Heinz (2011 World Series Of Poker Main Event Champion)

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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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2011 WSOP Day 6 comes to an end with only 57 players remaining of the 6,865 registered for the Main Event. Day 7 starts this Monday with coverage being broadcast on ESPN2 between 7-11 pm.

There are only two more days remaining until the November Nine are announced, the 2011 WSOP Final Table will continue on 5th November where the winning player will earn the most respected trophy in poker, a World Series of Poker bracelet and $8,711,956 of the prize pool.

The current Chip Leader is Ryan Lenaghan with more than 12 million chips going in to Day 7.

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