Matthias Eibinger - SOMUCHPOKER
Matthias Eibinger is one of poker’s brightest superstars, lighting up MTT events with incredible regularity. This millennial phenom from Austria has also built a reputation as a high stakes specialist with 3 Triton championships and multiple high roller titles to amass a stratospheric $21,498,022 in total live earnings.
Eibinger is ranked 1st in Austria’s All Time Money List and 44th in the world. He partnered with another young poker superstar, Germany’s Fedor Holz, to create Pokercode, an online masterclass platform and community to help aspiring players improve their skills. The Austrian’s climb to the top is an interesting study with such a deliberate and determined plan to conquer the world of high stakes poker.
Matthias Eibinger – Poker Drive And Life
Matthias Eibinger started playing poker at 17. As the typical path was, he cut his poker chops playing online, experimenting with different formats and already aiming for the top. In 2015, Eibinger even experimented with sleep patterns to maximize his playing time, specifically for online play. To maximize his grind, he resorted to polyphasic sleep, where instead of the regularly 8-hour cycle, he divided this into segments of 4 hours with short sleeping times. The experiment lasted for only two weeks as it was too radical a change in living habits but showed the lengths the Austrian went to establish himself in the game. He did though achieve success online then decided to jump to live-poker in the same year.
In the beginning Eibinger played in Sit and Gos at satellites for the WSOP Main Event and other events. Then in the first half of 2017, he made his first table finishes at the Deepstack Extravaganza III and the 2017 Goliath Phamous Poker Series, both in Las Vegas. Eibinger finished 7th in the NLH event of the former and 15th at the Main Event of the latter for a combined total cash of over $100,000. The early success led him again to make a radical decision.
According to a 2019 interview on cardplayerlifestyle.com, Matthias Eibinger decided that after switching to Multi-Table Tournaments, the only acceptable outcome for him was to play the highest stakes. So, the Austrian stopped competing for an estimated 6 months to focus on studying the game “from dusk to dawn”. This experiment paid off handsomely.
Upon his return in 2018 at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, Paradise Island, Matthias Eibinger finished third at the NLH Event for a cash of $ 74,690. He then followed this up with a deep run in his first high stakes game, landing 7th at the €50,000 + 1,000 Super High Roller Event of the partypoker MILLIONS Barcelona Grand Final banking another large prize money of $ 135,057. A month after, Eibinger finished runner-up at the ARIA 100K High Roller Event of the World Poker Tour – Season XVI WPT Tournament of Champions, Las Vegas for his first 7-figure cash of $ 1,006,060.
The Austrian prodigy continued to burn the felt from May through June, at the High Roller Events of the Aria 25K-02, Las Vegas with final table finishes to combine for more than $170,000 cash. At the Aria 25K-14 July edition, Eibinger shipped the Las Vegas High Roller Event for hist first ever live poker title, banking $ 299,000. He finished 2018 with a massive cash of $ 880,564 in August, finishing 3rd at the Super High Roller Event of the European Poker Tour Barcelona and ended the year adding two more titles, clinching the High Roller and Super High roller Events of the Fall Madness, Las Vegas and European Poker Tour Prague respectively to combine a total cash of over $1.3 Million. At only 25 years of age, Matthias Eibinger already hit his stride for high stakes poker never looking back, playing exclusively in 5-figure buy-ins at High Roller Events thereafter.
Matthias Eibinger continued his blistering pace in 2019 with a series of firsts in his young career. Eibinger claimed a first EPT championship at the €50K NLH Event of the European Poker Tour Monte Carlo with nearly another million-dollar payoff of $ 942,495. The Austrian then debuted at the Triton High Roller Series, making a table finish in the Main Event of the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Montenegro, Budva, banking $ 341,462. Next came a first twin championship at an MTT in the Aria Summer High Rollers, Las Vegas shipping the $10K NLH -Aria High Roller and $25K NLH -Aria High Roller 10 Events, combining for a $258,504 cash. He also made the final table in 7 more high roller events to pocket an added $500,780.
Eibinger would not cool down the entire year with deep runs at NLH 8-handed and Main Events of a second Triton Poker Super High Roller Series in London. He would bink aggregate winnings of more than $770,000. The last quarter of year saw Eibinger with excellent showings at the World Series of Poker Europe 2019, Rozvadov, Diamond High Roller Event (5th for a $ 508,484 cash) and other high stakes tournaments in the Bahamas and Prague.
Just before the lockdown, Matthias Eibinger bagged another 7-figure cash of $ 1,008,000 placing second at the $100K NLH Event of the partypoker LIVE – partypoker MILLIONS Sochi Super High Roller Series.
Matthias Eibinger returned to live tournament play after the pandemic in April 2022 and picked up where he left off, claiming 2 Triton tiles. In April, Eibinger ruled the $50K NLH 8-Handed Turbo of the Triton Poker Cyprus – Special Edition, Kyrenia for his maiden Triton championship and his sixth largest score of $ 676,000. He came back to Cyprus in September at the same Triton series to come up on top of the $50,000 NLH Turbo Event with a $ 545,000 payoff. In 2023, Matthias Eibinger made it a trifecta at the elite tournament when he finally snatched a Main Event of the Triton Super High Roller Series in Monte Carlo. Eibinger bested Spain’s number 1 in the All Time Money List, Adrian Mateos in heads up play. The win also gave the Austrian his best live cash to date, with a staggering $ 3,461,261. Eibinger was also given a Jacob & Co timepiece, awarded only to winners of main events on the Triton Series.
In recent tournament play, Eibinger continued to wax hot in 2024, making million dollar cashes with deep runs again at high stakes tournaments. In March 2024, Eibinger placed 5th in the Main Event again at the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Jeju, banking $ 1,330,000. In June, he placed 4th at the $250K NLH- Super High Roller Event of the 55th World Series of Poker Las Vegas adding $ 1,688,278 to his poker bounty.
Matthias Eibinger continues to build his legacy, getting comfortable at the dizzying heights of the Poker gods and he is barely in his 30s.
*Profile by Mike Alcazaren
