Poker pro Shaun Deeb joined an exclusive club when the American won his sixth career bracelet during the 2023 World Series Poker in Las Vegas. Three other pros won their fifth career bracelet during the 2023 WSOP, including Josh Arieh, John Monnette, and Benny Glasser.
Deeb grew up in Troy, New York just outside of Albany. His family owned and operated Ted’s Fish Fry, a popular restaurant chain in the greater Albany area. Deeb followed his passion for poker and eschewed the family business, but he never forgot his roots and initially played online poker under the screen name “tedsfishfry.”
Deeb shares a surname with Vegas-based pro Freddy Deeb, but the two are not related.
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Deeb Switches from Online to Live Poker
Deeb was highly regarded as one of the first generation of Internet pros during the initial online poker boom in the mid-2000s. His name was consistently at the top of the leaderboard at PokerStars in 2007 and 2008. All those endless hours grinding online poker led to burnout, and Deeb briefly retired in 2009.
When the Justice Department shut down poker sites and confiscated players’ money on Black Friday in 2011, Deeb spent time as an online exile in Mexico, before he pivoted to live poker. His live results have been stunning with six WSOP bracelet victories and one WSOP Circuit ring in an eight-year span that began in 2015.
Deeb, now 37, recently passed $12 million in career earnings in live tournaments. He won nearly $20 million combined in online poker and live tournaments during his career.
Deeb Starts Collecting Bracelets
Deeb won his first WSOP bracelet in 2015 with a victory in the $10,000 PLO Championship for a score worth $318,857.
At the 2016 WSOP, Deeb won his second bracelet with a victory in $1,500 Seven-Card Stud.
At the 2018 WSOP, Deeb won the Player of the Year when he cashed in 20 events, made four final tables, and won two more bracelets. He binked the $25,000 PLO Higher Roller for $1.4 million, and shipped $10,000 Big Blind Antes NL Championship (6-Handed) for $814,179.
At the 2021 WSOP, Deeb was the last player standing in $25,000 PLO High Roller. He won $1.25 million and locked up a fifth bracelet. It also marked the second time he won the prestigious $25K PLO High Roller event.
Deeb won his sixth bracelet during the 2023 WSOP when he took down Event #27 $1,500 8-Game Mix. This six-handed tournament attracted 789 entrants, many of whom were among the premier mixed-game specialists in the world. Deeb earned $198,854 for his victory in the 8-Game Mix.
Deeb had a strong showing at the 2023 WSOP this summer through the first two weeks of June. He cashed in eight events including two online bracelet events, and he secured spots at three finals tables with one bracelet victory. He final tabled Event #9 $1,500 Seven-Card Stud, but finished in fifth place.
Deeb narrowly missed winning another bracelet when he finished in second place in WSOP Online Bracelet Event #3 $1,000 NL Deepstack. Ryan Hughes defeated Deeb heads-up for the bling, but it was another close call for Deeb. He has now been a runner-up at the WSOP no less than four times.
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The WSOP Six Timer Club
A total of 18 players won at least six bracelets since the inception of the WSOP. There are only eight players in WSOP history who won seven or more bracelets. Ten players are currently in the Six Timer Club with six bracelets.
Phil Hellmuth holds the WSOP record with 16 bracelets. Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, and Phil Ivey are the only other players with at least 10 bracelets. Johnny Moss and Erik Seidel won nine bracelets. Billy Baxter and Men “The Master” Nguyen each won seven bracelets.
The Six Timer Club also includes several legends who won six bracelets at the WSOP including TJ Cloutier, Johnny “World” Hennigan, Layne Flack, Daniel Negreanu, Jay Heimowitz, Jeff Lisandro, Ted Forrest, Brian Hastings, and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson.
Deeb became the tenth current member of the Six Timer Club when he locked up his sixth-career bracelet this summer. If Deeb continues his current pace, he could reach a dozen bracelets before he’s even 50.
Arieh, Monnette, and Glasser Attain Five Bracelets
Five bracelets are halfway to ten, which is the benchmark at the WSOP considering only four players reached double-digit bracelet victories. That elite quartet includes Hellmuth, Chan, Brunson, and Ivey.
Three players hit a significant milestone this summer when they joined a special club of players who won at least five WSOP bracelets. There are now 17 players with exactly five bracelets and 18 other players who won more than five bracelets. In total, 35 players are in the WSOP’s Five Timer Club.
Josh Arieh might be most famous for a third-place finish at the 2004 WSOP Main Event when he banked $2.5 million. He won his first bracelet back in 1999 with a victory in Limit Hold’em. His second bracelet was in 2005 in PLO. After a 16-year drought, Arieh won two bracelets in the same year during the 2021 WSOP in PLO and PLO8. He won his fifth bracelet with a victory at the 2023 WSOP Event #22 $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship.
John Monnette added his name to the list of pros with five bracelets when he captured 2023 WSOP Event #30 $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw. Monnette won his first bracelet at the 2011 WSOP in 8-Game Mix. He won his second in 2012 in Seven-Card Stud,. Monnette added a third in 2017 in Deuce-to-Seven Lowball. He secured a fourth bracelet in 2021 in the Limit Hold’em Championship.
Benny Glasser holds the record for the most bracelets by a British pro. He recently joined the Five Timer Club after winning the 2023 WSOP Event #38 $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship. Glasser won his first bracelet in Triple Draw in 2015. He added two more in 2016 in Omaha 8. He won a fourth in 2021 with a victory in the Razz Championship.
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