- @
- Followers:
No Tweets Found
CNN POLITICS ON FACEBOOK » | CNN POLITICS ON TWITTER »
German, 22, takes $8.72 million and poker's top prize
A 22-year-old from Germany became poker's newest champion early Wednesday, outlasting eight other finalists and coming away with $8.72 million in the World Series of Poker Main Event.
Pius Heinz of Cologne is the first German to win the event. His winnings are the third-highest in the history of the event, which began in 1970. He had only $83,000 in earnings before his Main Event victory.
Heinz, who entered the finals ranked seventh in chips, survived a six-hour final duel with Czech Martin Staszko, who still came away with $5.43 million as the runner-up.
Heinz won with an ace-high final hand. After the final card was revealed to give him the win, Heinz hugged cheering family and fans at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas like a football star who had just scored a touchdown. The fans chanted his name and raised a German flag. Watch the final hand on ESPN.com.
"It's gotta be the happiest day of my life, but I can't believe what happened. It's so unreal," Heinz said after he was presented with the gold and diamond winner's bracelet.
Also in the final nine at the Rio Hotel and Casino was American Ben Lamb, the World Series of Poker player of the year for 2011, but he fell out in third place, setting up the dramatic final face-off.
On Twitter
On Twitter
@cnnbrk on Twitter
Nice..now he can upgrade to an AMG 63... .
Nobody holds a gun to your head to eat at McDonalds either. But thanks to massive advertising, most do. State Lotteries have a huge advertising budget targeted at lower income communities where peoples only hope of getting rich is to gamble with their meager earnings, or in the case of carreer welfare peeps, food stamps.
@the Clown and your one peanut peanut gallery...Luck has nothing to do with it when you sit down to play Hold 'em at a casino. Did you not read my explanation as to why? I was a house player in Vegas for several years, and also hustled pool at the Que Club and Elbow Room billiard halls. Have you ever seen pool tournaments on ESPN 2? Those are the guys we hustled. We had a 14 foot snooker table where we played a ring game called 'Golf'. It looks like an easy game, but it takes abour 5 years even for an pro pool player to master. Plus, we worked the game just like we worked the tourists. It's funnier than heck watching a guy win 10k in a televised 9-ball tournament, then leave the pool hall with zip squat. 99% of you "gamblers" and "pool players" are just a bunch of pidgeons..
At home
Drawing pictures
Of mountain tops
With him on top
Lemon yellow sun
Arms raised in a V
Dead lay in pools of maroon below
Daddy didn’t give attention
To the fact that Mommy didn’t care
King Philip the Wicked
Ruled his world
Philip spoke on the blogs today
Philip spoke on the blogs today
Clearly I remember
Pickin’ on the boy
Seemed a harmless little f*@k
But we unleashed a lion
Gnashed his teeth
And bit the recess lady’s bre*st
How could I forget
He hit me with a surprise left
My jaw left hurting
Dropped wide open
Just like the day
Like the day I heard
Daddy didn’t give affection
And the boy was something that Mommy wouldn’t wear
King Philip the Wicked
Ruled his world
Philip spoke on the blogs today
Philip spoke on the blogs today
Try to forget this…Try to erase this…From the blackboard.
Two out of three people surveyed don't read your sh!t. Who wants to continually read the ravings of a lunatic? Go away.
I've been surfing online more than three hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours. It’s pretty worth enough for me. In my view, if all web owners and bloggers made good content as you did, the web will be much more useful than ever... Sirosky Maisie