Over the last five years, Josh Arieh has experienced a career renaissance in tournament poker. The 51-year-old Georgia resident won two World Series of Poker bracelets each in 2021 and 2023, pushing his career total to six after a 16-year gap in his WSOP resume.
His earlier WSOP bracelet wins were all won in live events contested over either limit hold’em or some form of pot-limit Omaha. But Arieh crossed two new frontiers with his latest WSOP victory on Sunday, Oct. 5. He outlasted a total field of 804 entries in a $500 no-limit hold’em event during the WSOP Online festival to claim his seventh career bracelet.
Though this is his first no-limit hold’em win, Arieh has enjoyed significant successes in the game. Arieh’s biggest career cash came in 2004, when he finished third in the WSOP main event. Arieh’s second-largest result saw him take home $952,290 for finishing second in the 2009 World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic.
Channeling his longtime friend Shaun Deeb (who coincidentally won his eighth WSOP bracelet just days earlier), Arieh fired seven bullets before registration closed. The last one clearly stuck, as Arieh rode that stack to a $67,656.60 victory and the bracelet.
I’m a NL Playaaaaa https://t.co/Vev7B0p8NC pic.twitter.com/PomZkzWJLQ
— Joshua Arieh (@JoshuaArieh) October 6, 2025
With his seventh career WSOP bracelet, Arieh enters rarified air. He’s now in an eight-way tie for 10th on the all-time list, aligned with the likes of WSOP Hall of Famers Daniel Negreanu, John Hennigan, Nick Schulman, Brian Rast, and Billy Baxter. Scott Seiver also has seven career WSOP bracelet wins.
The tournament Arieh won was the sixth event of the ongoing WSOP Online festival, which features 33 bracelet events from Sept. 28 – Nov. 11. The schedule includes no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha events with buy-ins ranging from $250 up to $3,200.
Nick Palma Breaks Through For First WSOP Bracelet
Arieh was not the only accomplished tournament player to score an early win during this festival, as Nick Palma also came out on top of a WSOPO field.
Dating back to 2014, Palma has been tantalizingly close to a WSOP win on many different occasions. In live and online WSOP Circuit events, Palma got heads-up for a ring at Foxwoods back in 2014. He’d picked up a number of third-place finishes along the way, most recently earning a podium finish in a 2023 $1,500 no-limit hold’em freezeout in a field of 2,046 during that year’s WSOP in Las Vegas.
Despite WSOP earnings in excess of $800,000, and career live results of more than $3.2 million across all tours, a major title had eluded Palma.
But no more. On the same day Arieh won, Palma took down event no. 7, a $2,000 buy-in PKO event. The tournament drew 199 entries, and Palma emerged victorious, winning $78,988.94 and the hardware.
I just won my first WSOP bracelet !!! First place out of 199 players in the $2000 pko event for 80k. I talk smack sometimes but everyone knows I respect all the players and grinders and there was some real tough competition in the end of this https://t.co/jIRXuqn7Ew feels really… pic.twitter.com/2nXblP1mSB
— NICKY P 🧙👨🍳 (@Nick_Palma1010) October 6, 2025
