Dusseldorf (RP). That poker is a game belongs to the category of
popular errors. The game requires a combination of patience and skill,
mathematics and psychology. With the World Cup victory of the German
Pius Heinz (22), the card game could be even more popular in this
country.
The Hollywood-ready story of the 22-year-old German Heinz Pius, who
went to Las Vegas poker champion will be fascinated, not just the
Poker Nation USA. Rise because the typical American dream of rags to
riches, has the boy with the biblical name (which is irritating to
word games such as poker Pope Pius) can be true the world over. With $
10,000 entry fee, the student of economic psychology resident in
Vienna on the multi-millionaire, gets in the field of 6865 players to
win bonus of $ 8.7 million (6.3 million €). And provides, as experts
predict, and the Casino Wiesbaden reported yesterday on the Internet,
for a run on the poker tables.
To understand the global epidemic of Poker Mania, have a look at
history. The origin of the most brutal side of the chess world, where
every mistake is punished final is uncertain. Historians see the birth
in China, Persia or Egypt. The modern era has shown that the game with
the 52 cards in the Wild West of America, New Orleans conquered, so
more must have French roots. The Western films from the Hollywood
dream factory later formed the image of the game: Cowboys sitting with
cards in their hands in the smoke-filled saloon at dusk and end at
round tables ever games with death by a revolver bullet.
This archetypal poker has long been banned worldwide. For, as in the
classic film "The Cincinnati Kid and The Poker King" starring Steve
McQueen to admire, the variant seduces with five cards in his hand
once, and purchase new cards to gamble away house and home within
seconds.
The professional gambler to the idea of establishing variations, is
played in those with solid inserts - so had an example in Heinz Pius
the world tournament, "only" risking the $ 10,000 operation, but no
more. The most famous variety is long since Texas Hold'em with two
cards in your hand as a foundation and five on the table, which are
combined together to form a sheet, which is located on the ranking of
hands straight flush on the downward slightly modified in any variety
. As the late 90s, the first table was placed on the Internet, the
birth of a proposed multi-billion dollar industry today.
In 2001, the world's largest platform "Poker Stars" set, which works
for Germany's tennis legend Boris Becker in Europe as a commercial
engine. The turning point in the poker world marks a day in May 2003:
A pudgy accountant from Tennessee with a chin beard qualified at Poker
Stars with $ 39 application for the World Cup and won 2.5 million
dollars. His name was on the program: Chris Moneymaker. No artist
name, the "money maker" is descended from German goldsmiths. This
means that all embankments were broken: Hundreds of thousands tried to
emulate his example, the market exploded on the Internet. TV stations
in the USA live tournaments, poker shows offer as a trendsetter in
this country only with Stefan Raab's TV Total Poker Night. And it is
expected that Pius Heinz a new "boom" in Germany triggers.
It is important to remember that the poker world consists of two
parts, the large group of losing "fish" and the much smaller winning
the "sharks". For faith, that poker is a game of chance is one in the
category of popular errors of all time. This is sometimes for days at
tournaments running game with 2.59896 million possible combinations in
sheet truth is a mixture of patience and skill, people skills and
mathematics, psychology and physical, mental strength and nonchalance.
And according to experts bill at best 30 percent luck.
The proof is Phil Ivey, is in color and 45 years old: Probably the
world's best player has already taken eight "bracelets" (with
diamond-studded gold bracelets as a symbol of victory). Moreover, he
sat dozens of times in major tournaments on the "final table", was
much more in money, which is usually paid at ten percent of players,
and to a fortune of 300 million dollars. This works not only with
luck.
But even on him if this is the most famous quote of poker history. It
is always with the Stetson on his head zockenden, nearly 80-year-old
veteran Doyle Brunson: "You need five minutes to Poker
