michael binger

Player Michael Binger

• UB Online Championship Awards: A Closer Look at the Two-Week Online Poker Event

  February 03, 2010

  With awards season in full swing, UB has been busy awarding some serious prizes of its own. The fourth annual UB Online Championship came to a close on Sunday after two weeks and 18 high-stakes events. In case you missed any of the virtual drama...

   

• The Sunday Briefing: Records Break With Almost 20,000 Playing the PokerStars Sunday Million

  February 01, 2010

  Playing to win was the theme on this record breaking Sunday, which closed out the month. Prize pools were increased across the virtual felt as each of the major online poker sites ran special promotions. PokerStars offered a Sunday Million...

   

• Borgata Poker Open: The Final Six Players Set for Action

  September 24, 2009

  While much of the poker world's attention is focused across the pond as players battle for WSOPE gold, the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open championship has been working its way towards crowning a winner after 1,018 players took to the felt for...

   

• 2009 WSOP: NLHE #36, Tabb Nabs Chip Lead

  June 20, 2009

  Day 2 was bubble day for Event #36, $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em. 213 players returned to the Rio...

   

• 2009 Aussie Millions, $3,250 Pot Limit Omaha w/ Rebuys: Michael Binger Grabs Ring

  January 22, 2009

  The big-time action junkies and online whiz kids were out in force for the 2009 Aussie Millions Poker Championship Event #12, $3,250 Pot-Limit Omaha w/ Rebuys. A small but impressive field of 42 players contributed...

   

• The Year in Poker: November, 2008

  December 30, 2008

  November capped an incredible fall run of poker news with perhaps the biggest story of the entire year, when Denmark's Peter Eastgate returned to the Rio to capture the WSOP's Main Event. It was one of several huge tournaments...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Michael Binger

  December 19, 2008

  Earning nearly $6 million in tournament poker in only two years doesn't take a rocket scientist — but when it comes to Michael Binger, it does take a theoretical physicist. A scant two months before his third-place finish in...

   

• WSOP Circuit Lake Tahoe: Michael Binger Wins

  November 17, 2008

  Michael Binger led going into the final table of the WSOP Circuit Event Championship at Lake Tahoe, but he would lose that lead before surging back to claim his victory. And at one point in heads-up play, Binger found himself...

   

• WSOP Circuit Lake Tahoe, Day 2: Michael Binger Leads Final Table

  November 16, 2008

  Day Two of the WSOP Circuit Event Championship at Harvey's Lake Tahoe was a grueling affair as 55 remaining players battled down to the final table of nine. Familiarity with the event seemed to matter as by the end of the day Todd...

   

• 2008 WSOP Event #38, $2,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Day 2: Von Halle Heads Final

  June 22, 2008

  Jan Von Halle shot up from near the bottom of the chip count when Day 2 began to become the clear leader going into the final table, sitting on a third more chips than his closest competitor. The German pro, husband of Team Pokerstars...

   

• 2008 WSOP, Event #38 $2,000 Pot Limit Hold Em, Day One: Binger Surges to Big Lead

  June 21, 2008

  With a late charge, Michael Binger ended Day 1 as the chip leader with 146,100 chips, overtaking Ayaz Mahmood, who had mounted his own attack on the lead, and Lee Watkinson, who they had been chasing for most of the day