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As the World Series of Poker adds more tournaments every year, it has become less crazy to see someone win two bracelets in a single WSOP. It’s still an amazing feat – winning one bracelet is tremendous – but doing it over the course of 100 events is quite different than doing it over the course of, say 15 events.
Wait, you say that Benny Glaser just became the 2025 World Series of Poker’s first double bracelet winner, and he not only did it within the first 15 events, but accomplished it in back-to-back tournaments? Well I’ll be.
On Thursday night, Glaser won Event #15: $1,500 Mixed Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better and the $258,193 first prize. It was the seventh WSOP gold bracelet win of his career, elevating him to an elite tier on the all-time bracelet leaderboard. He is now tied with five others, including Daniel Negreanu and Billy Baxter, with seven bracelets, and only six players have more: Phil Hellmuth (17), Phil Ivey (11), Johnny Chan (10), Doyle Brunson (10), Erik Seidel (9), and Johnny Moss (9).
Glaser’s first bracelet of the 2025 WSOP came just four days earlier in the $1,500 Dealer’s Choice event. He did not play in any tournaments in between, thus he went back-to-back.
And what’s crazy is that this is not the first time Benny Glaser has done this. In 2016, he took down the $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo event and $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Championship in less than a week.
Tournament poker is tiring
Afterward, Glaser told PokerNews that his seventh WSOP title feels “outrageously surreal” and that while he already had a 2025 WSOP Player of the Year run on his mind, this removed any doubt that he would go for it.
In sports, we often hear about athletes being locked in, not letting anything distract them from the task of winning. They focus on what they need to do and push out all other thoughts. Glaser readily admitted to Poker.org, though, that the night before the final table, he couldn’t help but think about how significant a win would be. He had trouble sleeping because of his “brain racing through the possibilities.”
“Honestly, I would have liked to have slept longer,” he said. “I was still feeling quite a bit of adrenaline and stress, and it was kind of hard to turn my brain off, honestly. Just expectations of today and how big a day it is.”
He also confessed that the day before the final table was very stressful and a “struggle mentally,” so even though he didn’t get much sleep, he was thankful for the break in the action.
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