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Pius Heinz Wins 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event
For months, poker fans around the world have waited to find out who will be crowned 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event champion. On Tuesday night, Pius Heinz, Team PokerStars Pro from Germany, earned that honor.
On Sunday, the 2011 November Nine reconvened for the first time since July and played down to the final three players. After a day off, Pius Heinz, Ben Lamb, and Martin Staszko made their way back to the Penn and Teller Theater inside the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino to play for poker immortality.
Here’s a look at the chip counts at the beginning of play on Tuesday:
Final...
The Live Feed was amazing with the 15 minute delay irrelevant to enjoying seeing the hole cards after the hand. The Live Commentary was pretty good. Despite the fact that Antonio Esfandiari is on my permanent weasel list for torturing me on my tables at the WPT Cyprus, I have to admit he did a great job supporting with very good analysis. Daniel Negreanu would have been better, but hey ... Antonio did a great job. The Phil Hellmuth cameo was way to long and sorry to say this ... he came second to Antonio in the Commentator race ... just what the Great PH needs ... another second.
So we have a new World Series of Poker champion ... Pius Hienz. They should name a sauce after him ... wait ....
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11-09-2011 07:53
flintswordI do not like the new LIVE format of the WSOP. It is boring and too drawn out. It is much more entertaining to see the hold cards as the hand is being played. PLEASE... Go back to the old format !
11-09-2011 15:25
raiser_sharpI agree, the new live feed was horrible! I love watching poker, but not 301 hands heads up, that is ridiculous! I also usually DVR the main event and I watched it just tonight and was severely disappointed that I only saw 25 hands and than my DVR stopped recording because ESPN only had it slated for a 2 hour window and I did not know it was on a live delay. The casual observer does not want to watch 301 hands ups head, that will cause severe ratings drop I hope and we can go back to the old edited format from years past. I also cannot stand the prop sets they have the last 2 years, it feels very cheap.
11-09-2011 19:52
After almost 100 hands...
1) I Zzz
2) I Wake up
3) I thought: let's read tomorrow the poker news
4) I shut down the PC
11-09-2011 23:45
EYeGNIEEsLLaI was stoked about the live coverage... I mean, yeah it's somewhat boring for people who just want to see big pots, but it's the same with any other sport - I'd rather watch the whole thing than to just get some highlights later. It's more exciting when you know it's happening live. If you don't want to watch it live, don't. I agree that there should be maybe an hour long summary episode with the biggest pots and most interesting hands, but if you don't want to watch a hundred hands live - nobody is forcing you to. I enjoyed it, I feel that not revealing the hole cards until the end of the hand is much more exciting and enlightening, as you can analyze the hand through your own perspective... And Antonio did a great job commentating, I must say. Anyway, keep it real ESPN! Keep it live!
11-10-2011 03:39
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