Benny Glaser Has Three WSOP Bracelets This Summer — And There Are Still 40 Events To Go
Mixed-game stud from the UK leaps to seventh place on the all-time bracelet list
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Three World Series of Poker bracelets in a lifetime is a tremendous accomplishment. Three in the first 26 days of a single WSOP is otherworldly.
British mixed-game standout Benny Glaser secured his third bracelet of the series on Sunday by winning the $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball tournament, giving him eight total bracelets lifetime — and sole possession of seventh place on the all-time bracelet list.
The only poker players with more WSOP wins than Glaser are Phil Hellmuth (17), Phil Ivey (11), Doyle Brunson (10), Johnny Chan (10), Erik Seidel (10), and Johnny Moss (9).
Glaser won the $1,500 Dealers Choice event on June 2 and the $1,500 Mixed: Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better on June 5 prior to triumphing once again over the weekend.
He is just the seventh player to win three live bracelets in a single summer, but with an ever-increasing number of events on the schedule — a record 100 of them this year — it’s not quite as rare an accomplishment as it used to be. It happened once in the 1970s, twice in the ‘90s, twice in the 2000s, and then 2024 WSOP Player of the Year Scott Seiver pulled it off just last year.
Nobody has ever won four in a single summer; Glaser came into Monday’s action with 40 events over 24 days remaining on the schedule to try to become the first.
A particular set of skills
For his first bracelet of the summer, Glaser earned a payday of $150,245, as he topped a field of 597 entries. His second bracelet came in a field of 1,239 and earned him a $258,193 payout. The third bracelet came in a field of 463 and paid $208,552.
Glaser has yet to win a bracelet in a no-limit hold’em event — clearly, his strengths lie in the other poker variants, which tend to attract smaller fields of opposition than hold’em does.
Of his 71 career cashes in WSOP events (including WSOP Circuit tournaments and other WSOP-branded series), only 15 are in no-limit hold’em.
Glaser’s best finish in the WSOP Main Event came in 2022, when he placed 960th.
His eight bracelets make him the all-time leader among players from Europe.
At just 36 years of age, Glaser is still four years away from eligibility for the Poker Hall of Fame, but is elevating his likelihood of gaining first-ballot induction with each successive bracelet win.
