November Niner Joins Team PokerStars

November 6th, 2011 by Lucas Pattison | Print

This week the final table of the WSOP 2011 Main Event resumes and next week the world will have a new poker champion. The winner will be richer by $8.7 million and will join the big league. But, win or not, one of the November Nine has already made it big by being inducted in the elite Team PokerStars. He is Pius Heinz of Germany. As per chip count Heinz is in seventh position with odds of 9/1 from Bodog and 10/1 from Sportsbook.

 

The PokerStars press release says that Heinz joins Sandra Naujoks (in picture), Sebastian Ruthenberg and Boris Becker as a Team PokerStars member from Germany. There are several interesting aspects to Heinz’s entry into the November Nine. At the age of 22 he is one of the youngest members of this year’s November Nine and is the first German player ever to make the WSOP Main Event final table. Poker babe Sandra, also known as Black Mamba, said that Heinz has all the qualities needed to be a great poker player, and he has played a tough and intelligent game to get to the WSOP final table. She was happy to see another top player join the ranks of Team PokerStars. The German unit of PokerStars will have double the reason to root for him.

The WSOP Main Event was the second live cash for Heinz. The first won was also in WSOP 2011, when he finished seventh for $83,286 in the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em Event. Heinz has not looked back, taking the first place in a €1,000 Turbo Bounty event at EPT Barcelona in August for another €17,450. After the WSOP Main Event Heinz will play his first event wearing the PokerStars patch at EPT Prague in the first week of December.

 

Heinz is not flustered by the buzz around him. He says, “I’m pretty relaxed about the game. There are a lot of tough players left but I’m confident I can win it. Joining PokerStars has given me an extra lift, too. I’m looking forward to being part of the team.” The chip leader in the November Nine is Martin Stazko who has been given 4/1 by Bodog and 7/2 by Sportsbook.

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