Benny Glaser Wins Third Bracelet At 2025 WSOP To Grow Career Total To Eight

A red-hot Benny Glaser burned his name in the poker history books with yet another win at the 2025 World Series of Poker. The 36-year-old poker pro from Southampton, England took down the WSOP $2,500 mixed triple draw lowball event in the early morning hours of June 22 for his third bracelet of the summer and eighth overall.

Just a few weeks earlier, Glaser won back-to-back titles in the $1,5000 mixed Omaha and $1,500 dealers choice events. His trio of bracelets this year make him just the seventh player to earn as many in a single series. He joins the likes of Scott Seiver (2024), Jeffrey Lisandro (2009), Phil Ivey (2002), Ted Forrest (1993), Phil Hellmuth (1993), and Walter ‘Puggy’ Pearson (1973) in that incredible achievement.

“It feels outrageous, honestly. Three in one series. That’s so many in one series and it’s not even over yet. It’s unreal,” Glaser told PokerNews live reporters that covered the event.

The upshot of all this winning in 2025 is that Glaser’s career bracelet count has grown to eight, making him the seventh player to ever win as many titles at the series. He broke out of what was an eight-way tie at seven bracelets, and now sits just one win behind the late great Johnny Moss.

Making Poker History

The Moment.@BennyGlaser defeats Schuyler Thornton to capture his THIRD bracelet of the summer and becomes the 7th person EVER to win 8 or more WSOP bracelets. #WSOP2025 pic.twitter.com/i7bEnkUCrY

— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) June 22, 2025

Glaser defeated a field of 463 entries for this latest triumph. The event featured a rotation of badugi, deuce-to-seven triple draw lowball, and ace-to-five triple draw lowball. In addition to the hardware, Glaser also earned $208,552 as the champion. This brought his haul for the festival to $626,248. His lifetime tournament earnings surpassed $9.4 million with this victory.

The win also came with 1,080 Card Player Player of the Year points. This was his fifth final-table finish of the year. His 3,300 total points is good for 17th place in the 2025 POY standings presented by Coin Poker. He also moved into the lead in the WSOP POY standings.

This was Glaser’s third bracelet in a triple draw event, having won his first in the $1,500 deuce-to-seven triple draw in 2015 and taken down the $10,000 championship of the same game in 2023. He also has three victories in Omaha events, winning the $1,500 and $10,000 Omaha eight-or-better events in 2016 and the $1,500 mixed Omaha earlier this year. Rounding out his long list of triumphs are the 2021 razz championship and this year’s victory in the $1,500 dealers choice.

Long Way To Go On The Final Day

This event ran for three days inside Paris and Horseshoe Las Vegas. The top 70 finishers earned a share of the $1,030,175 prize pool, with notables like five-time bracelet winner John Monnette (28th), two-time bracelet winner David Prociak (26th), four-time bracelet winner Kevin Gerhart (25th), three-time bracelet winner David Back (23rd), and four-time bracelet winner Ben Yu (18th) running deep.

The final day began with 15 players remaining and Glaser just outside the top five stacks. He outlasted three-time World Poker Tour champion Chino Rheem (14th), two-time bracelet winner Yuval Bronshtein (12th), bracelet winner Johannes Becker (9th), and actor James Woods (8th) to enter the final table in second chip position.

Two-time bracelet winner Chris Klodnicki got the last of his stack in with 6-5-4-2-A in ace-to-five lowball, but his opponent George Alexander was drawing live with 5-3-2-A. Alexander managed to drill a four on the end to make an unbeatable wheel, sending Klodnicki to the rail with $22,542. Three-time David ‘Bakes’ Baker soon followed. He got the last of his chips in with 3-2-A against 6-5-4-2-A in the same game, but wound up with a pair of threes. He earned $30,690 as the sixth-place finisher.

Not long after that, Michael Balan hit the rail in fifth place ($42,872) to leave just four still in contention.

Three-time bracelet winner David Baker (@DMBakes) has been eliminated in 5th place, Baker takes home a prize of $30,690. Michael Balan (@mikeyBinVegas) finishes in 4th place and walks away with $42,872 in Event #56: $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball.

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— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) June 22, 2025

Grueling Short-Handed Battle

Glaser scored his first knockout of the final table when his 6-5-4-2-A bested the queen low of Mark Klecan in another ace-to-five clash. That situated Glaser in second chip position amongst the final three, with Alexander in front and Schuyler Thornton at the bottom of the chip counts.

That trio squared off for several hours, with plenty of movement along the way. Thornton won a big one off Alexander late, with 7-5-4-2-A pipping 7-5-4-3-A in ace-to-five to see him move into the lead.

The swings intensified as the limits grew. Alexander eventually fell to the short stack in time for a big showdown in badugi. Alexander got the last of his chips in after the second draw with 8♠5♣3♥A♦ for a made eight badugi. Glaser held 3♣2♠A♥ and was drawing one. He picked up the 7♦ to score the knockout, ending Alexander’s run in third place ($90,139). The bracelet winner now has more than $820,000 in career cashes to his name.

Heads-up play began with Glaser sitting just slightly ahead of Thornton. The early action went against Glaser, but he soon bounced back with a big win in deuce-to-seven. His 8-6-5-4-3 edged out the 8-7-4-3-2 of Thornton to swap spots on the leaderboard. Thornton was able to regain the top spot for a bit, but eventually Glaser began his final push to the bracelet.

Thornton was down to just over a single big bet when the final hand was dealt. He raised all-in for his last 700,000  from the button in ace-to-five and Glaser called. Thornton took two to Glaser’s one on the first draw. Both needed only one on the second draw. Thornton stood pat with 10-5-4-3-2, while Glazer asked for one card and revealed his 6-5-2-A. He picked up a three to make a winning six low, sending Thornton to the rail with $135,506 for his runner-up showing.

Final Table Results

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