The United States may be sitting under a “heat dome” right now, but nobody on Earth is hotter than the UK’s Benny Glaser. Over the weekend, Glaser became just the seventh player in World Series of Poker history to win three gold bracelets in a single WSOP. Glaser took the crown in Event #56: $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball, topping a field of 463, for a $208,552 payday.
Glaser follows six luminaries into the elite club: Puggy Pearson (three bracelets in 1973), Ted Forrest (1993), Phil Hellmuth (1993), Phil Ivey (2002), Jeff Lisandro (2009), and Scott Seiver (2024).
That’s quite the list.
The win also gives Glaser eight bracelets in his career, putting him alone at that number in seventh place all-time, behind only Phil Hellmuth (17 bracelets), Phil Ivey (11), Doyle Brunson (10), Johnny Chan (10), Erik Seidel (10), and Johnny Moss (9).
It’s been a fascinating race near the top of the bracelet standings so far this summer, as both Nick Schulman and Brian Rast won their seventh bracelets after Glaser did, only to have Glaser quickly pull back ahead of them.
“It feels outrageous, honestly” Glaser told PokerNews afterward. “Three in one series. That’s so many in one series and it’s not even over yet. It’s unreal.”
To that point, the 2025 World Series of Poker is a little past the halfway point in terms of the number of tournaments remaining.
“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.”
As mentioned earlier, Phil Hellmuth is still way ahead of the pack in the all-time WSOP bracelet race, with more than twice the bracelets as Glaser. While one would think Hellmuth’s mark is untouchable, especially because he is still playing at a high level, Glaser did not exactly discount the idea of giving him a run for his money.
“I’m not necessarily setting my goal on that,” Glaser told PokerNews. “It would be a cool thing. I’m still just going to try to keep showing up every summer and keep playing my best. He’s still going to keep doing the same, so he’s definitely going to be a very tough man to catch, but it would be a cool race.”
I didn’t hear a “Hellmuth’s record is unbreakable” in there anywhere, did you?
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