English pro Benny Glaser followed up his dominant 2025 World Series of Poker with an impressive victory in the 2026 WSOP $50,000 Poker Players Championship. Glaser banked over $1.3 million for first place and secured his ninth career bracelet after outlasting a treacherous final table that included Phil Ivey and Josh Arieh.
Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi snagged his ninth bracelet with a victory in $10,000 PLO. Mizrachi joined the Nine Timers Club with Glaser and Hall of Famer Johnny Moss.
Nick Schulman won his eighth bracelet, narrowly missing winning his #9 on two separate occasions. Kristen Foxen also added a sixth bracelet and extended her lead atop of the women’s all-time money list with more than $19 million in tournament earnings.
Meanwhile, three players won multiple bracelet events at the 2026 WSOP including Calvin Anderson, Naoya Kihara, and Eelis Parssinen.
Glaser Notches #9 in the $50K PPC
Benny Glaser won three bracelets last summer, but Shaun Deeb edged him out in the 2025 WSOP Player of the Year race. Glaser, a pro from Southampton, United Kingdom, returned to Las Vegas this year on a mission to add more bracelets to his impressive collection.
Event #60 $50,000 Poker Players Championship, attracted 108 entrants and a total prize pool worth $5.13 million. Only the top 17 places paid out in this nine-game mixed extravaganza. Among the notables who cashed, but fell short of the final table, were Phil Hellmuth, Jason Mercier, Alex Livingston, Nick Guagenti, Chris Brewer, Chris Hunichen, Jesse Lonis, Maksim Pisarenko, and Matt Glantz.
Everyone at the stacked final table had previously won a bracelet, and five were multi-bracelet winners. The final six included Ivey, Glaser, Josh Arieh, Maxx Coleman, Paul Volpe, and Kristopher Tong. Glaser began the final table with the big stack worth 8.6M. Volpe was the short stack with 2.7M. The other four players were clustered together with 5M or so in chips.
Tong, the reigning $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. champion, busted in sixth place when he lost a race with pocket sevens against Glaser’s Kh-Qh. Volpe, a three-time bracelet winner, exited in fifth place during a round of Omaha 8 when Coleman rivered a better two pair. Coleman met his fate in fourth place during PLO when his trip fours lost to Arieh’s full house.
Ivey began the summer with 11 bracelets, or second on the all-time list behind Hellmuth. Ivey missed a shot at #12 when Arieh took him out in third place during 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw.
When heads-up began, Arieh held the lead with 19.3M to Glaser’s 13M. Glaser won the first hand, eventually pulled even, and never looked back. He had Arieh on the ropes during Seven Card Stud, but couldn’t land the knockout blow. Arieh’s final stand occurred during Omaha 8 when he missed a flush draw. For a runner-up finish, Arieh took home $895,837. He’d have to wait for another chance to win his eighth bracelet. Glaser collected $1,343,764 and his ninth bracelet.
Glaser was a bridesmaid in early June in Event #38 $10,000 Limit Hold’em (7-Handed) Championship when Doug Chen knocked him out in second place. With a couple more weeks remaining at the 2026 WSOP, Glaser now has his eyes on winning bracelet #10. The truly elite Ten Timers Club includes Phil Hellmuth (17), Phil Ivey (11), Johnny Chan (10), Doyle Brunson (10), and Erik Seidel (10).
The Grinder Joins the Nine Timers Clubs
Mizrachi pulled off one of the greatest performances last summer when he won the 2025 Poker Players Championship for a fourth time before taking down the 2025 Main Event Championship for a $10 million score. Mizrachi reached another milestone in 2026 when he won bracelet #9. He outgunned 836 entrants in Event #70 $10,000 PLO Championship to win $1,350,203 and his ninth bracelet. Mizrachi outlasted another fierce final tale that included Martin Zamani, Jesse Lonis, and Ian Matakis.
Ocho for Nick Schulman
Nick Schulman, a pro from New York City, has been on a heater since the start of the 2023 WSOP with five bracelets. He has now won a bracelet in four consecutive years.
Event #37 $1,500 H.O.R.S.E., a popular mixed-games tournament, attracted 780 runners. Schulman won $183,366 for first place and secured bracelet #8. Shaun Deeb and Schulman are the only current members of the Eight Timers Club.
Schulman cashed in his ninth event this summer when he took second place in Event #67, $10,000 Limit 2-7 Championship. Koji Fujimoto denied him #9 when the Japanese pro defeated him in an exciting heads-up joust. That was the second time Schulman was a runner-up at the 2026 WSOP. He took second place in Event #8 $1,500 Badugi in the first week of the series.
Kristen Foxen Wins Bracelet #6 with a $25K High Roller Victory
Canadian pro Kristen Foxen added another milestone to her resume by winning her sixth WSOP bracelet, becoming one of just 30 players to achieve that feat. She won her first bracelet event in 2013 and a second in 2016, before capturing three online WSOP bracelet victories between 2020 and 2024.
Foxen outlasted a tough final table in Event #19 $25,000 NL Hold’em High Roller. The event attracted 345 entrants and a prize pool worth over $8.1 million. She knocked out Galen Halen in second place to win her sixth bracelet and $1,773,083, which marked the largest cash of her career.
With $19 million in career tournament earnings, she moved into fifth place on the all-time Canadian money list. She has now won $7 million more than Vanessa Selbst, who sits in second place on the women’s all-time money list. With six bracelets, Foxen now owns twice as many WSOP titles as any other woman.
Double Bracelets: Cal Anderson, Naoya Kihara, Eelis Parssinen
Three players won more than one event this summer, including pros from Japan, Finland, and the USA.
Calvin Anderson, a well-known online phenom from Oklahoma who dominated tournaments on the virtual felt, won two online bracelets in 2023. Both of his victories this summer were in live tournaments.
Anderson won his fifth bracelet in Event #48 $10,000 Razz Championship, which he previously won in 2018. This year’s Razz Championship attracted a field of 155 sadists. Only the top 24 places paid out of this grueling tournament. Anderson held off bracelet winners Eric Rodawig, Max Kruse, and Yuval Bronshtein at the final table to win $357,026. After this score, Anderson passed Hellmuth for most career WSOP earnings in Razz.
Anderson’s good run continued a couple of days later with a victory in Event #54 $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship. He outmaneuvered a field of 189 entrants to win $413,580 and his sixth bracelet. The final table of this year’s H.O.R.S.E. Championship featured several mixed-game stars, including Josh Arieh, Robert Mizrachi, and David Bach. Anderson denied Arieh his eighth bracelet, which marked his second runner-up finish of the summer.
Naoya Kihara made history in 2012 when he became the first Japanese player to win a bracelet. Kihara finally ended his 14-year drought with a victory in Event #17 $10,000 No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship, which paid out $428,923. He faded a field of 198 entrants and outlasted a final table that included Shaun Deeb, John Cynn, and Dan Shak. A couple of days later, Kihara struck gold again when he took down Event #23 $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship. He bested a field of 130 runners to win $301,970 and his third career bracelet. During his triumphant march to the winner’s circle, he knocked out Allen ‘Chainsaw’ Kessler in third place.
Eelis Parssinen, a high-stakes specialist from Finland, won a pair of $25K High Roller tournaments this summer. Parssinen outlasted 451 runners and shipped Event #47 $25,000 PLO High Roller for a score worth $2.16 million. Parssinen won his second bracelet of the summer and his third overall when he took down another High Roller with a victory in Event #64 $25,000 PLO/NLH Mixed. He bested a field of 214 entrants to win $1.17 million. He busted fellow countryman Juha Helppi in second place. The stacked final table also included Sean Winter, Daniel Negreanu, Lou Garza, and Dylan Linde.
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