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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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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