The 2020 World Series of Poker online $ 400 no-limit hold; em eight max events draw a sizable field of 2408 total entries. It took about 12 hours for that sea of virtual players to be narrowed down to championship, and it was Nick “samadhi” Binger who emerged victorious with the title.
Binger overcame a tough final table to win his second career WSOP gold bracelet and top prize of $ 133,412. This is the second career bracelet for Binger, who won a limit of eight or better Omaha event for $ 5,000 to $ 397,073 in 2011.
Binger now has over $ 2.3 million in career tournament earnings. His brother Michael Binger was third in the 2006 WSOP main event with a value of over $ 4.1 million. The Binger brothers have collectively cashed in over $ 9.3 million on the tournament circuit.
The event attracted 1,590 unique players, who collectively logged back 818 times to create a final prize pool of $ 866,880 in this $ 400 buy event. The top 330 runners make their money, with a minimum of $ 694 in cash.
Among the many famous players to cash in at this tournament are Roland ‘prngls12’ Israelashvili (315 – $ 694), winner of Mandavia’s ‘rickrosstheb’ bracelet (314 – $ 694), six-time bracelet winner Daniel ‘DNegs’ Negreanu (193 – $ 867), three-time bracelet winner and 2015 world champion Joe ‘fanofdapoker’ McKeehen (186 – $ 867), Galen ‘turkmalloy’ Hall bracelet winner (151st – $ 1,040), bracelet winner Jason ‘haderade’ Somerville (149 – $ 1,040 ), Ali ‘SasukeUchiha “Imsirovic (82 – $ 1,300), four-time bracelet winner Mike’ mouth123 ‘Matusow (30 – $ 3,381), and Frank’ Spaghettiii ‘Marasco (25 – $ 4,248).
By the time the final table was set, Binger had made his way to the top of the leaderboard, with WSOP bracelet winner Ryan ‘Adopt_aDogg0 Leng sitting in second place after beating Jordan’ HFNeon ‘Spurlin in the final table bubble (9 – $ 11,009). Binger extended his main event by winning a reflop race with 8 Spades Suits 8 Club Shirts against A Club Shirts 9 Club Shirts from Christian ‘CalcFather’ Calcano. The runout boosts to both player and Binger’s pocket pair were enough to send Calcano to the virtual rail in eighth place ($ 14,217).