He studied Business Psychology at the Hochschule Fresenius college in Cologne, which he put on hold in August 2011 to pursue his poker career as a part of Team Pokerstars.

[8] Heinz won a Full Tilt Poker Sunday Mulligan in 2010 and a PokerStars $150,000 tournament in 2011.

[9] Having developed his style online, he discovered that he "did not have a lot of experience playing live ...

[citation needed] Because of the size of the field, the first day of the WSOP Main Event is split over a four-day period.

[8] During the final table, his mother, who was watching the event, had left the Penn & Teller Theater because she found the tournament too stressful.