If the 2026 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) is something like 2025, it may be, to cite Gus Hansen, an excellent summer time.
Final yr’s Las Vegas collection had a report 100 gold bracelet occasions, however solely 99 have been awarded, due to the notorious Milly Maker ultimate desk collusion controversy. The WSOP, together with on-line and a number of reside stops, awarded a report 234 bracelets all year long.
The 2025 WSOP featured a uncommon triple-bracelet winner who wasn’t even the summer time’s prime performer.
Double Match Play Bracelets
Some of the spectacular information damaged final yr that will likely be robust to prime in 2026 was Artur Martirosian profitable the $25,000 Heads-Up Championship for $500,000. In doing so, he grew to become the primary participant ever to win a number of match play bracelets.
Martirosian additionally gained the On-line Heads-Up title for $424,698 in 2023. Yosef Fox is one other participant whose bracelet win was a rarity. The California poker participant captured the $10,000 Thriller Bounty occasion for $729,333. His son, Jordan Fox, is a previous bracelet winner, making them simply the third parent-sibling combos to win WSOP gold.
Doyle Brunson1976Todd Brunson2005
Farhintaj Bonyadi2018Freddy Bonyadi1998
Yosef Fox2025Jordan Fox2019
Aaron Cummings quietly went back-to-back in the identical bracelet occasion, one thing that does not occur usually. Cummings, for the second straight yr, took down the $1,500 Restrict 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw 6-Max for $157,152, beating out 635 entrants. In 2024, he gained the identical match for $146,516, prime money out of 574-entrant subject.
This is what’s even crazier: Cummings solely has 5 lifetime WSOP cashes, the fourth highest win-to-cash ratio ever.
Multi-Bracelet Winners by Win-to-Money Ratio Since 2000
Maximilian Klostermeier (2019-24)2366.70%
Matt Perrins (2011-13)2450.00%
Joseph Gao (2025)2450.00%
Aaron Cummings (2019-25)2540.00%
Darius Neagoe (2024-25)2540.00%
Summer season of Benny
Benny Glaser profitable a bracelet, and even a number of bracelets, in the identical summer time isn’t surprising. Coming into the 2025 WSOP, he’d gained 5 and had already confirmed he was among the many prime match gamers on the earth.
However it’s extraordinarily uncommon for anybody, even the perfect of the perfect, to win three bracelets in the identical summer time. Simply how uncommon is it? Solely seven others within the 56-year historical past of the World Sequence of Poker had carried out it earlier than Glaser, together with Scott Seiver, who gained three in 2024. This is a listing of the eight triple-bracelet winners.
1973Puggy Pearson#1: $4,000 Seven-Card Stud; #3: $1,000 No-Restrict Maintain ‘Em; #7: $10,000 No-Restrict Maintain ‘Em Primary Occasion
1993Ted Forrest#5: $1,500 Razz; #6: $1,500 Restrict Omaha 8 or Higher; #17: $5,000 Seven-Card Stud
1993Phil Hellmuth#7: $1,500 No-Restrict Maintain ‘Em; #18: $2,500 No-Restrict Maintain ‘Em; #19: $5,000 Restrict Maintain ‘Em
2002Phil Ivey#5: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud; #16: $2,500 Seven-Card Stud 8 or Higher; #23: $2,000 S.H.O.E.
2009Jeff Lisandro#16: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud; #44: $2,500 Razz; #37: $10,000 Seven-Card Stud 8 or Higher
2014George Danzer#18: $10,000 Razz; #38: $10,000 Seven-Card Stud 8 or Higher; WSOPA #8 $5,000 8-game Combine
2024Scott Seiver#10: $10,000 Omaha Hello/Lo 8/OB; #40: $1,500 Razz; #72: $10,000 No-Restrict 2-7 Lowball Draw 7-Max
2025Benny Glaser#8: $1,500 Sellers Alternative 6-Max; #15: $1,500 Blended Omaha 7-Max; #56: $2,500 Blended Triple Draw Lowball
Glaser joined one other unique group in the course of the 2025 WSOP. The British poker professional was one in every of three gamers, together with Shaun Deeb and Michael Mizrachi, to hitch the eight-bracelet membership.
Gamers Who Gained Their Fourth Bracelet or Extra on the 2025 WSOP
8Benny Glaser, Michael Mizrachi, & Shaun Deeb
7Nick Schulman & Brian Rast
5Brad Ruben, Adrian Mateos, Martin Kabrhel, & Mike Gorodinsky
4Joao Vieira, David ‘ODB’ Baker, Ian Johns, Daniel Zack, Chad Eveslage, & Sam Soverel
Adrian Mateos is without doubt one of the gamers to succeed in the five-bracelet milestone, and he additionally grew to become simply the fourth participant ever to go five-for-five when heads-up for a bracelet, becoming a member of Brian Yoon, Daniel Alaei, and Robert Mizrachi.
Adrian Mateos Heads-Up for a WSOP Bracelet
2013 WSOP Europe Primary EventFabrice Soulier$1,351,661
2016 $1,500 No-Restrict Maintain ‘EmKoray Aldemir$409,171
2017 $10,000 Heads Up No-Restrict Maintain ‘EmJohn Smith$335,656
2021 $250,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler No-Restrict Maintain ‘EmBen Heath$3,265,362
2025 WSOP.com $3,200 NLH Excessive RollerAlex Kulev$253,080
Leo Margets Makes Historical past
Leo Margets, the seventh-place finisher, grew to become the primary lady since Barbara Enright in 1995 to succeed in the WSOP Primary Occasion ultimate taable. Enright completed fifth place 21 years in the past, the best end ever by a lady.
No different lady has ever reached the ultimate desk in poker’s World Championship occasion. However there are various others who’ve run deep, together with Kristen Foxen, a future Poker Corridor of Famer who completed thirteenth in 2024. 4 ladies have come up only one spot shy of the ultimate desk, and they’re Barbara Samuelson (1994), Susie Isaacs (1998), Annie Duke (2000), and Gaelle Baumann (2012).
Highest Feminine Primary Occasion Finishes
1995Barbara Enright598.17%$114,180
2025Leo Margets799.93%$1,500,000
2012Gaelle Baumann1099.85%$590,442
2000Annie Duke1098.05%$52,160
1998Susie Isaacs1097.14%$40,000
1994Barbara Samuelson1096.27%$26,880
2012Elisabeth Hille1199.83%$590,442
1997Marsha Waggoner1296.15%$33,920
2024Kristen Foxen1399.87%$600,000
2005Tiffany Williamson1599.73%$400,000
Can the 2026 High the 2025 WSOP?
Glaser gained three bracelets, Michael Mizrachi grew to become the primary participant ever to win the Primary Occasion and the Poker Gamers Championship in the identical yr, and neither of these superstars gained WSOP Participant of the 12 months in 2025. That is as a result of Deeb racked up extra factors to win it for the second time in his profession. That is simply a part of why it was such an entertaining collection.
So, can the 2026 WSOP presumably surpass what we witnessed final summer time? Sure, and we could even see another milestones and information hit, together with the five hundredth diferent participant in historical past to turn into a WSOP millionaire (money for at the very least $1 million in an occasion).
We’ll additionally watch the three,000th gold bracelet awarded and the three,000th WSOP match happen earlier than closing up store on Aug. 5 when the Primary Occasion ultimate desk concludes.
Robert Jen
