Benny Glaser Wins Three WSOP Bracelets in Three Weeks w/ Mixed Triple Draw Triumph

First the $1,500 Sellers Alternative, then the $1,500 Combined PLO8 and now, its the $2,500 Combined Triple Draw Lowball (2-7, A-5, Badugi). Three bracelets in three weeks, all in fields with greater than 400 entries. That’s the historic heater Benny Glaser finds himself on on the 2025 World Collection of Poker, as he turned simply the eighth participant in WSOP historical past to win three gold bracelets in a single summer time.

Glaser’s newest triumph got here in one other blended sport format, the place he topped a 463-entry discipline and defeated Schuyler Thornton heads-up to gather $208,552 and bracelet quantity eight.

By becoming a member of the unique “three-in-a-summer” membership, Glaser now stands alongside the likes of Scott Seiver (2024), Jeff Lisandro (2009), Phil Ivey (2002), 2025 Poker Corridor of Fame finalist Ted Forrest (1993), Phil Hellmuth (1993), and Puggy Pearson (1973).

At simply 36 years previous, Glaser has now racked up eight WSOP bracelets in a ten-year span, trailing solely six legends on the all-time record: Johnny Moss (9), Erik Seidel (10), Johnny Chan (10), Doyle Brunson (10), Ivey (11), and Hellmuth (17).

Winner’s Response

“It feels outrageous, actually” Glaser instructed PokerNews following his victory. “Three in a single collection. That’s so many in a single collection and it’s not even over but. It’s unreal.”

“In a manner it’s sort of humorous that it’s taking place within the decrease stakes buy-ins the place the fields space larger versus the 10k’s that are usually extra winnable. Just like the second bracelet had 1,239 runners. It’s actually loopy. Such a grind, such a battle.”

Immediately’s victory places Glaser firmly on prime of the race for WSOP Participant of the 12 months and Glaser confirmed that he will likely be going very exhausting for the accolade. Glaser, who’s a candidate for being probably the most dominant participant within the final decade of the WSOP, commented on the hypothesis that he could sooner or later surpass Hellmuth for the all-time bracelet document.

“There’s attending to be ideas of it. There’s been speak of it currently, type of understandably. I’m not essentially setting my objective on that. It could be a cool factor. I’m nonetheless simply going to attempt to preserve displaying up each summer time and preserve enjoying my greatest. He’s nonetheless going to maintain doing the identical, so he’s positively going to be a really powerful man to catch, however it could be a cool race.”

Ultimate Desk Outcomes

Ultimate Day Motion

The tournaments closing day began with 15 hopefuls taking their seats on the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. With a number of short-stacks to start out there have been a flurry of eliminations to start out the day with Chino Rheem, Yuval Bronshtein and Johannes Becker among the many early casualties as the sector was rapidly whittled down.

Actor James Woods on the ultimate desk bubble after a crucial mistake. Woods stood pat with a nine-eight considering that he was enjoying 2-7 Triple Draw, solely to comprehend too late that he was really enjoying A-5. That hand left Woods severely short-stacked and he was out on the ultimate desk bubble quickly after.

Glaser got here into the ultimate desk with the second-largest stack, however six of the seven gamers had been very shut in chips and it took over two hours for any eliminations to happen. Lastly Chris Klodnicki was on the fallacious aspect of a brutal cooler after his pat six-low in A-5 Triple Draw was cracked by George Alexander, who drew good on the finish to make a wheel. The following three eliminations got here rapid-fire over the subsequent three arms, with David “Bakes” Baker, start-of-day chip chief Michael Balan and Mark Klecan hitting the rail in sixth, fifth and fourth respectively.

Following Klecan’s elimination, the ultimate three gamers battled for over 4 hours, with the chip lead being traded between Alexander and Thornton a number of occasions. Glaser was left short-stacked a number of occasions throughout this era, however was persistently in a position to reset and battle again into competition.

“I wanted a few of these breaks” Glaser stated of the three-handed battle. “Twice I doubled up Schuyler, when he primarily received fortunate all-in. So I used to be king of making an attempt to make use of the breaks to reset, simply making an attempt to breathe and convey myself again to the scenario to maintain battling on. Nevertheless it was an actual powerful one.”

The turning level noticed Glaser leap over Alexander into second place after getting him to fold in a hand of A-5. Quickly after, Glaser hit a five-outer in Badugi to ship Alexander to the rail and are available into heads-up play with a really slight lead over Thornton. That lead rapidly evaporated, with Thornton taking management of the early components of heads-up play to deliver himself to a 2:1 chip lead over Glaser.

Glaser took the lead again after selecting off a bluff from Thornton with an eight-seven low and from there he took his foot off the fuel, successful a number of pots with out showdown to depart Thornton brief. Thornton managed to double via Glaser as soon as, however quickly after Thornton was left with crumbs after making a jack-low in A-5 solely to lose to Glaser’s eight-low. Thornton was left with beneath one huge guess and could not get well. Just a few arms later Thornton’s pat-ten was outdrawn when Glaser fittingly made #3 for his third bracelet of the collection.

Calum has been part of the PokerNews group since September 2021 after working within the UK power sector. He performed his first hand of poker in 2017 and instantly fell in love with the sport.

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