The world's biggest poker event has finally reached its conclusion. With the usual four month gap passed, the world tuned in to the see the end of the 2025 WSOP. For the first time in the tournament's prestigious history, there was a Teutonic tinge to the victor.

A huge Main Event field fell before Pius Heinz, grabbing every last chip in the tournament on his way to victory. All this from a man not fancied by any but the most fervent German when the tournament paused in March. This was thanks to him sitting 7th in chips when the play resumed, well behind crowd favorites like Ben Lamb. One of the many players who eschewed patches from the likes of the Party Poker Download.

Lamb fell with three players remaining, the final American player in the event now yhat Heinz and Czech Martin Staszko were left. The Czech native didn't have the poker experience of his younger opponent, but had spent years honing his mind as a skilled chess player. His more measured style was seen by many as vindication of traditional play over the super-aggressive approach adopted by the internet minions on the best euro poker sites.

However, it was the German's finesse which triumphed in the end, allowing him to collect the massive $8.72 million prize. “Probably my family is going to get a couple gifts,” said the shellshocked Heinz immediately after his victory. “It’s got to be the happiest day of my life,” he added, “but I can’t believe what happened — it’s unreal.”

Unreal was definitely the word to describe the 6 hour long heads up contest that the he had just taken part in. The chip lead went back and forth multiple times, with Heinz at one point staring back at a 4:1 chip deficit. He was going to need all of his online poker rooms experience to recover.

However, if he has proved anything over the past few days, its his resilience. The German semi-pro battled back to a position of superiority and won the final hand with nothing more than Ace high. Ace King sounds like a pretty good hand, but when your opponent has two live cards and whole board full of outs to come, it doesn't seem that way. Thankfully for the German, nothing connected with the Czech's hand and Pius Heinz was officially crowned the 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion.