Someone was guaranteed to scope a large milestone astatine the World Series of Poker. It turned retired to beryllium Benny Glaser.
The British poker pro topped a star-studded tract to triumph the $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship precocious Thursday astatine Paris Las Vegas. Glaser defeated chap pro Josh Arieh successful heads-up play to seizure the $1.34 cardinal archetypal prize and the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy.
With the win, Glaser earned his ninth vocation WSOP bracelet, which are awarded for tourney victories, and moved into a necktie with the legendary Johnny Moss for sixth spot connected the all-time list. Only Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson, Erik Seidel and Johnny Chan person much bracelets than Glaser, 37.
“It’s a literal dream. It’s the top infinitesimal successful my career, by far,” Glaser said connected the WSOP watercourse pursuing his victory. “It’s unreal.”
Glaser, who won 3 bracelets astatine the 2025 WSOP, secured his spot arsenic 1 of the world’s champion mixed-game players. It is his archetypal rubric successful the PPC, which features a who’s who of poker royalty competing successful 9 variants of poker and is considered the astir prestigious lawsuit connected the docket aft the Main Event.
Glaser started the last time arsenic the spot person with six players remaining and the tract was rapidly chopped successful fractional with Glaser, Arieh and Ivey inactive standing.
Ivey was chasing his 12th vocation bracelet but went retired successful 3rd spot for his champion decorativeness of the summertime truthful far.
Arieh, who was snubbed by voters from the 2026 Poker Hall of Fame ballot, was seeking his 8 vocation bracelet. He went into heads-up enactment with a flimsy spot pb implicit Glaser but rapidly fell down and ne'er caught up.
On the last manus with the players competing successful Omaha High-Low 8 oregon Better, Glaser made a amended two-pair to sound retired his opponent. Arieh besides finished 2nd successful the 2019 PPC.
Glaser squatted adjacent the array and covered his rima successful disbelief aft clinching the victory. He was incapable to clasp backmost tears arsenic helium hugged his supporters connected the rail.
“I’ve wanted this for truthful galore years. I’ve travel adjacent twice,” Glaser said. “I cannot enactment it into words. I’m truthful happy. It’s amazing.”
It is the 2nd runner-up decorativeness successful little than a week for Arieh, who was 2nd to Calvin Anderson successful the $10,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. Championship. Arieh besides finished 3rd successful the $1,500 buy-in Pot-limit Omaha High-Low 8 oregon Better lawsuit this month.
Negreanu falls short
Daniel Negreanu made his 2nd last array of the WSOP connected Thursday but was incapable to adjacent retired his eighth vocation bracelet.
Negreanu finished seventh successful the $25,000 buy-in High Roller Pot-limit Omaha/No-limit Hold’em Mixed lawsuit aft starting the last time arsenic 1 of the shortest stacks. He doubled-up aboriginal with a consecutive flush successful PLO against Finland’s Eelis Parssinen but mislaid a large cookware to Sean Winter and was eliminated not agelong after.
Parssinen went connected to triumph the tourney and joined Anderson and Japan’s Naoya Kihara arsenic the lone two-time bracelet winners this summer.
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