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)

Read more for the top poker articles and major event winners of Poker 2011.

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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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The 2011 WSOP main event final will be broadcast on ESPN 2 and ESPN 3 starting this Sunday, 6^th November at 3:30 PM EST nearly live from the Rio in Las Vegas.

The ESPN WSOP 2011 broadcast with hole cards being shown will be delayed by 15 minutes to allow fair play in what ESPN considers to be game changing WSOP coverage for this year’s WSOP main event final.

The November nine will battle it out on the final table starting this Sunday at 3:30 pm EST until there are only three players remaining. The remaining three finalists will stand to face each other on Tuesday starting at 9pm.

One thing for sure is that we can expect hours of entertaining live poker from over the next coming days.

Live coverage of the WSOP main event on ESPN and ESPN2

WSOP main event final table:

• ESPN2, Sunday, November 6 at 3:30 p.m. EST

• ESPN, Tuesday, November 8 at 9 p.m. EST

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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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The 2011 WSOP Main Event is underway, this year there have been 6,865 registered players with most of the players registering on the last two days. The total prize pool is set at more than $65 million with a decent $8,7 million for the Main Event Champion.

Here are the 2011 WSOP updates and highlights of the World Series of Poker Main Event at the Rio Casino, in Las Vegas.

Watch the Main Event Live on ESPN from 14th July to see who will be crowned the 2011 World Series of Poker champion.

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