The 2025 World Series of Poker is underway at the Paris Casino and Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas. During the first 10 days of action, English pro Benny Glaser became the first player to win multiple bracelets this series. He now has seven WSOP bracelets in his collection, which puts him in an exclusive group.
Glaser won Event #8 $1,500 Dealer’s Choice, which paid out $150,246. He outlasted a field of 597 entrants, and only the top 90 places paid out. Four days later, Glaser took down Event #15 $1,500 Mixed Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo for $258,193. That mixed Omaha event attracted 1,239 players, who generated a prize pool worth more than $1.6 million. Glaser banked over $408,000 in winnings so far this summer. With two first-place finishes, Glaser is currently the front-runner in the 2025 WSOP Player of the Year race.
Exclusive Seven-Timer Club
When the 2025 WSOP began, Glaser was tied with 18 other players who also had won five bracelets.
After Glaser won Event #8, he became only the 26th player in history to win six or more bracelets.
“Honestly, number six feels special,” Glaser told reporters in a post-victory press conference. “I’m very happy. I feel like it’s an elite club that I’m very proud to be a part of.”
When Glaser prevailed in Event #15, he joined the WSOP Seven-Timers Club as its 12th member.
“It’s something that I value and it’s really nice to me,” Glaser said moments after winning his seventh bracelet. “It’s something I aim for, too. It makes me very proud of my accomplishments.”
Five other players also have seven bracelets, including the legendary Hall of Famer Billy Baxter, Johnny “World” Hennigan, Daniel Negreanu, Men Nguyen, and Scott Seiver. Three of them reached this prestigious milestone last year.
Negreanu had been stuck on six bracelets for more than a decade before he won his seventh with an impressive victory in the 2024 $50K Poker Players Championship.
Hennigan snagged his seventh bracelet when he won the $1,500 Dealer’s Choice event last year, which is the same event that Glaser won this year.
Seiver had a heck of a run last summer with three bracelet victories, which helped him lock up the 2024 WSOP Player of the Year title. Seiver shipped $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 Championship, $1,500 Razz, and $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship to reach seven bracelets.
Chasing Greatness
Only six players won more WSOP bracelets than Glaser, who just turned 36. Phil Hellmuth leads everyone with 17 bracelets. Phil Ivey secured #11 last summer and he’s second on the all-time list. Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson, and Erik Seidel are tied with ten each. Johnny Moss, who won the first WSOP Main Event, has nine bracelets.
Glaser will now attempt to win a third bracelet this series and add #8 to his growing collection. Keep a close eye on Glaser the next couple of weeks in upcoming events like Event #36, $10,000 PLO Hi-Lo Championship, Event #39 $1,500 H.O.R.S.E., Event #43 $1,500 Razz, Event #47 $2,500 Mixed Omaha Hi-Lo and Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo, and Event #50 $10,000 Razz Championship.
Hybrid Star
Glaser is also a feared online tournament grinder. Between 2018 and 2023, Glaser won 15 events at PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). He established a record with seven WCOOP victories in 2023 in various formats, including Badugi, 2-7 Triple Draw, NL 2-7 Single Draw, PLO8, NL Five-Card Draw, NLH 6-Max, and NLH 6-Max Turbo.
Glaser earned a reputation for being one of the supreme mixed-game players in the world. His seven bracelets occurred in six different formats, but none of them were no-limit hold ’em.
Glaser had just turned 25 when he won his first WSOP event in 2015 in $1,500 Limit Triple Draw Lowball. He returned to Las Vegas the next summer and proved his first bracelet victory was not a fluke when he won two Omaha Hi-Lo events in 2016. He secured the largest score of his budding career with a victory in the $10,000 Championship, which paid out over $407,000.
In 2021, Glaser was the last player standing in the $10,000 Razz Championship. He outlasted a tough final table that included Hellmuth and Seidel to win his fourth bracelet.
Glaser made a deep run in the 2022 Poker Players Championship but missed a chance to secure bracelet #5. He busted in fourth place, but earned $464,420, which marked his largest cash at the WSOP to date.
In 2023, Glaser returned to the winner’s circle when he won the $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Championship for his fifth bracelet.
Glaser had several near misses in 2024. He cashed in 11 WSOP events in Las Vegas and three WSOP Paradise events in the Bahamas. He reached the final table in five WSOP events, but missed out on a sixth bracelet.
Glaser won two bracelets this year through the first 15 events, which marked the second time he won multiple bracelets in the same series since 2016.
With over $9.1 million in live tournament earnings over his impressive career, Glaser is currently ranked #10 on England’s all-time money list. He’s between Jack Salter in ninth place and Live Boeree in eleventh place. He’s attempting to become only the seventh English player in history to pass $10 million in live earnings.
“If I have a shot at the Poker Hall of Fame, that will be nice,” said Glaser. “More bracelets will be helpful for that, too. I would like to think that it helps my legacy.”
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