Welcome to ‘The Summer of Benny’
With his third WSOP bracelet win of 2025, Benny Glaser joined elite company and now has an unprecedented chance at making poker history.
Through the first four weeks of the 2025 World Series of Poker, one player has stood out above all the rest. Poker players and fans are in the midst of watching British poker pro Benny Glaser add his name to WSOP record books and could potentially witness him add entirely new pages to those books.
Saturday night, Glaser won the $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw event for his third bracelet of the summer and in the process became just the eighth player to accomplish that feat. With 50 bracelets still up for grabs, 35 live and another 15 online, Glaser has an unprecedented opportunity to do things no player in WSOP history has ever done.
Still basking in the glow of the historic third win, Glaser was humble and yet still in awe of his own accomplishment when he spoke with PokerNews.
“It feels outrageous, honestly,” Glaser said. “Three in one Series. That’s so many in one Series and it’s not even over yet. It’s unreal.”
The History Making Moments
The third bracelet win was the obvious headline, but it wasn’t the only thing that made Saturday night’s win special or historic.
Glaser became the first player to win each of his three bracelets in events with multiple poker variants being played. His first win came in the $1,500 Dealers Choice event, his second just a few days later in the $2,500 Mixed Pot Limit Omaha event, and the third was in the $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw event.
By outlasting 1,238 other players in the Mixed Triple Draw event, he became the only one of the eight players to have won one of the three bracelets in an event with more than 1,000 runners. Prior to that, his win in the Mixed PLO event, was only the second time that one of those players defeated a field of more than 500 players, joining Scott Seiver who defeated 546 other runners to win the $1,500 Razz event in 2024.
“In a way it’s kind of funny that it’s happening in the lower stakes buy-ins where the fields are bigger as opposed to the $10K’s which are normally more winnable. Like, the second bracelet had 1,239 runners. It’s honestly crazy. Such a grind, such a battle,” Glaser told PokerNews.
The Three Bracelet Club
Last summer, Seiver became the first player in nine years to win three bracelets in a single year by taking down the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Championship, $1,500 Razz, and the $10,000 No Limit Deuce-to-Seven Championship.
Prior to that it had been nine years since any other player had done it. In 2014, George Danzer won a pair of events during the Las Vegas schedule and then added his third at WSOP Asia-Pacific to become the sixth player in the club. In 2009, Jeffrey Lisandro won bracelets in three different forms of Seven-card Stud, including Seven-card Stud, Seven-card Stud Hi-Lo, and Razz to join the club.
The other four players all did it prior to the poker boom. Phil Ivey did it in 2002, while Phil Hellmuth and Ted Forrest each won three back-to-back tournaments in 1993. In 1973, Puggy Pearson became the first player to do it, winning three of seven events on the calendar, including the Main Event - the only one of the eight to have done that.
Player of the Year Frontrunner
Though the WSOP Player of the Year standings have not yet been updated on WSOP.com, Glaser has accumulated 3,249 POY points for his four in-the-money finishes this year while current leader Scott Bohlman has 2,397.19 points. For context, Seiver won the 2024 POY under the same scoring system and finished the year with 4,403.85 points.
While he’s not a lock to win the award, it would be historic for Glaser to win three bracelets and not capture POY as well. Lisandro, Danzer, and Seiver each won Player of the Year in the year they captured three bracelets while the other four players accomplished the feat before the WSOP had introduced POY.
Alone in Seventh with Eight
The third win also gave Glaser eight total bracelets for his career, moving him into rarified air. He now sits alone in seventh place on the all-time bracelets list, one behind Billy Baxter, and one ahead of a group of seven players tied with seven each.
He is the first player to win an eighth bracelet since Ivey did it in 2010. In the time since Ivey won his eighth, Seiver, John Hennigan, Daniel Negreanu, and Brian Rast have each won their seventh career bracelet but have been unable to win their eighth. (Nick Schulman won his seventh bracelet less than a week after Glaser did.)
With the sheer volume of WSOP bracelet events during his career, it took Glaser just 3,658 days to go from winning his first WSOP bracelet to winning his eighth, which beats the next best time, which previously belonged to Ivey at 3,700 days.
The Poker Hall of Fame is Just Gonna Have to Wait
Glaser is only 36 years old and doesn’t become eligible for the Poker Hall of Fame until 2029 at the earliest. Glaser’s birthday is June 7th, which is a day after public nominations opened this year. The current criteria states that a player must “be a minimum of 40 years old at time of nomination” meaning Glaser may not actually be eligible until 2030.
The list of PHOF finalists for 2025 includes two players in particular, the aforementioned Seiver and Nick Schulman. Each of them have now won seven WSOP bracelets and many consider those two players to be betting co-favorites to be this year’s inductee. In 2023, Rast won his sixth career bracelet, and third PPC title, and many believed that was the milestone that pushed Rast to induction that year.
Given his WSOP success, and well documented online tournament success, Glaser is likely to be one of the ten finalists in his first year of eligibility. Even in the unlikely event that Glaser were to not add to his bracelet collection between now and then, it’s hard to imagine voters not making him a first ballot inductee.
A History Rewrite Beckons
Of the seven other players that have won three in a single year, only two players found themselves with an opportunity to win a fourth. Hellmuth won three consecutive events in 1993 and then got heads up against Billy Baxter in the $5,000 No Limit Deuce-to-Seven event where he ultimately finished runner-up. Last summer, Seiver made the final table of the $10,000 Online Championship Event but went out in third place.
The remaining 35 live and 15 online bracelet events mean Glaser has plenty of opportunities to become the first player to win what would be a record-breaking fourth bracelet. The remaining schedule includes a number of events where Glaser can again rely on his mixed game expertise, starting with an event where Glaser has had some success before.
The $50,000 Poker Players Championship, which begins Tuesday, is arguably the most difficult bracelet to win given the relative strength of the players playing and the diversity of the games played. Glaser has made the final table of the PPC twice in his career. In 2018, he finished fifth while Michael Mizrachi went on to win his third PPC title. In 2022, he finished one spot better, coming in fourth place as Dan Cates won his second straight PPC title. A third PPC final table appearance by Glaser, with history on the line, could make the livestream one of the most watched of 2025.
Other mixed game events that could provide that historic opportunity include $1,500 8-Game Mix, $2,500 Mixed Big Bet, $10,000 8-Game Mix, $3,000 TORSE, and the $25,000 HORSE high roller.
Then of course, there’s the Main Event. While Glaser is known for his mixed game talent, he has had some success in No Limit Hold’em events, most notably the 2022 World Poker Tour World Championship. There, with a structure similar to the WSOP Main Event, he outlasted 2,958 other players before finishing runner-up to Eliot Hudon. His only WSOP Main Event cash came earlier that same year when he finished 960th.
No matter how Glaser finishes the 2025 WSOP, he has already made it one of the most remarkable performances in the 56-year history of the event.