With a month left to go on the World Sequence of Poker, Benny Glaser will not be solely standing in rarified air, however is on the precipice of poker historical past.
The English professional is attempting to turn out to be the primary participant to win 4 WSOP bracelet in a single sequence after locking up bracelet number-three of the 2025 marketing campaign this weekend within the $2,500 Combined Triple Draw Lowball contest that introduced in 463 entrants who constructed the prize pool to $1,030,175.
Glaser took $208K of it for beating the ultimate desk that included $11 million greenback man Chris Klodnicki (seventh for $22,542) and David Baker (sixth for $30,690). Glaser denied Schuyler Thornton his first bracelet heads-up. Notable gamers who ran deep included Johannes Becker, Chino Rheem, Yuval Bronshtein, Ben Yu, Renan Bruschi, Aron Dermer, and Kevin Gerhart.
“That was a very robust battle, and I doubled them up twice, and so they each had chip leads for a very long time; it actually did really feel like an uphill climb,” Glaser mentioned after. “I saved attempting to get my composure again, attempting to deal with every hand at a time, and did my finest to utterly battle. It’s three-handed, you’re taking part in plenty of arms. You don’t have time to fret about previous arms.”
It’s the eighth WSOP bracelet for Glaser, who turns 36 on Saturday. He began this 12 months’s run on the finish of Could by successful the $1,500 Combined Video games Sellers Selection 6-Handed after which the $1,500 Combined Omaha 8 or Higher 7-Handed occasion throughout the similar week.
He turns into the eighth participant to win three WSOP bracelets in a single sequence, becoming a member of Walter “Puggy” Pearson (1973), Ted Forrest (1993), Phil Hellmuth (1993), Phil Ivey (2002), Jeff Lisandro (2009), George Danzer (2014), and Scott Seiver (2024).
Each Forrest and Seiver are nominated for this 12 months’s spot within the Poker Corridor of Fame, one thing Glaser gained’t be eligible for till he turns 40 in a couple of years.
If he manages to win his eighth bracelet within the subsequent 4 weeks, he’ll turn out to be the primary participant to win 4 in a single sequence.
He’s additionally proper within the thick of it for the WSOP Participant of the Yr. Even together with his victories, he sits in third place on the Participant of the Yr leaderboard with 2,241.79, behind Joao Vieira and Scott Bohlman, who has eight cashes and one WSOP bracelet to this point this summer season.
All Glaser’s bracelets got here in occasions that target video games apart from no-limit maintain’em. He began this journey in 2015 by successful a $1,500 Restrict 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw occasion. A 12 months later, he gained the $1,500 Omaha Hello-Lo 8 or Higher and the ten,000 Omaha Hello-Lo 8 or Higher Championship inside per week.
His fourth bracelet got here within the $10,000 Razz Championship, and quantity 5 within the $10,000 Restrict 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship in 2023.
His eight bracelets put him solely within the seventh spot on the all-time checklist.
