Pius Heinz

Pius Heinz
Pius Heinz (2011)
Personal information
Date of birth	May 4th 1989
place of birth	Germany Swisttal - Odendorf
Nickname	MastaP89PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker & partypoker
place of residence	Germany Cologne
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	$ 8,715,368
Total prize money	$ 9,071,367
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	1
Cashes	5
Best main event	Win ( 2011 )
Main Event of party poker Live
title	no
Cashes	1
Last updated: May 22, 2020

Pius Heinz (born May 4, 1989 in Swisttal - Odendorf ) is a German poker player . In 2011 he became the first German to win the World Poker Championship .

Personal

Heinz grew up in Odendorf near Bonn . He attended the Rheinbach municipal high school and graduated from high school in 2008. He then did community service in the North Eifel workshops in Euskirchen - Kuchenheim .

He then began studying business psychology at the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences in Cologne , which he put on hold from August 2011 due to his poker career.

Heinz was in a relationship with the presenter and poker player Natalie Hof .

Poker career

Heinz started playing poker as a hobby in 2007 . His poker career started on the Internet, where he joined the online poker as MastaP89 on the platforms PokerStars , Full Tilt Poker and Party Poker until November about 700,000 US dollars earned. After reaching the November Nine in Las Vegas in the summer of 2011 , he was a professional poker player and devoted himself increasingly to live poker. Heinz was part of Team PokerStars from summer 2011 to January 2013 .

In June 2011 Heinz was the first time in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas successful and finished with a tournament variant No Limit Hold'em seventh place for more than 80,000 US dollars in prize money . A few weeks later, he reached the final table of the series' main event , which began on November 6, 2011. In preparation he hired the German poker professional Johannes Strassmann as a coach. After a long heads-up with several changing chip leads, Heinz prevailed against the Czech Martin Staszko on November 9, 2011 and secured a bracelet and a prize of over 8.7 million US dollars. This made Heinz the first German to win the WSOP main event . In April 2012 Heinz and Stephan Kalhamer published the book My Hands on the Way to becoming a Poker World Champion: Becoming a Poker Millionaire Overnight . All hands at the final table of the 2011 WSOP main event will be analyzed there.

Heinz (fourth from left) as part of the November Nine
Bracelet that Heinz received for the victory

In August 2011, Pius Heinz won a side event of the European Poker Tour in Barcelona . He also won the TV total PokerStars.de night broadcast on December 20, 2011 . Although he was unable to repeat his 2011 WSOP success in the years that followed, he made it into the money twice in 2012 and once in 2013 at the WSOP.

Overall, Heinz has earned more than nine million US dollars with poker in live tournaments, making him one of the most successful German poker players .

Works

Book Pius Heinz: My hands on the way to becoming a poker world champion: Becoming a poker millionaire overnight - AniMazing, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-940163-27-1 .

Web links

Commons : Pius Heinz - Collection of Images

Pius Heinz in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
Pius Heinz in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
Pius Heinz in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)

Individual evidence

^ General-Anzeiger Bonn: Pius Heinz from Odendorf is poker world champion. November 9, 2011, accessed May 29, 2012 .
↑ New dream poker couple: Pius Heinz and Natalie Hof “in love” ( Memento from May 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on poker-magazin.at, accessed on May 21, 2014.
↑ Natalie Hof on the phone at pokerfirma.com January 10, 2016, accessed January 10, 2016.
↑ MastaP89 ( Memento of November 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) in the PocketFives database , accessed on April 11, 2018 (English).
↑ PokerStars officially confirms separation from Pius Heinz. January 24, 2013, accessed February 13, 2013 .
↑ 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2011 ($ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 9, 2017.
↑ WSOP: Strassmann makes Pius strong on bild.de from November 1, 2011, accessed on November 6, 2015.
↑ 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2011 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - WSOP Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 4, 2019.
↑ ^a ^b Pius Heinz in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 9, 2017 (English).

personal data
SURNAME	Heinz, Pius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	MastaP89 (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German poker player
DATE OF BIRTH	May 4th 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH	Swisttal - Odendorf , Germany

[1] General-Anzeiger Bonn: Pius Heinz from Odendorf is poker world champion. November 9, 2011, accessed May 29, 2012 .

[2] New dream poker couple: Pius Heinz and Natalie Hof “in love” ( Memento from May 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on poker-magazin.at, accessed on May 21, 2014.

[3] Natalie Hof on the phone at pokerfirma.com January 10, 2016, accessed January 10, 2016.

[4] MastaP89 ( Memento of November 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) in the PocketFives database , accessed on April 11, 2018 (English).

[5] PokerStars officially confirms separation from Pius Heinz. January 24, 2013, accessed February 13, 2013 .

[6] 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2011 ($ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 9, 2017.

[7] WSOP: Strassmann makes Pius strong on bild.de from November 1, 2011, accessed on November 6, 2015.

[8] 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2011 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - WSOP Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 4, 2019.

[hendon-9] Pius Heinz in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 9, 2017 (English).