Benny Glaser wins Poker Players Championship for ninth WSOP bracelet

British pro Benny Glaser won his ninth WSOP bracelet in 11 years as he captured the $50,000 Poker Players Championship. Beating Josh Arieh heads-up, Glaser also outlasted the 11-time WSOP champion Phil Ivey in Las Vegas.

A thrilling conclusion to the 2026 WSOP $50,000 Poker Players Championship played out in Las Vegas last night as the one all the top poker players in the world want to win, the PPC, was claimed by a mixed game great. British poker legend Benny Glaser sank to his knees with emotion after an epic battle with a final table including Phil Ivey and Glaser’s heads-up opponent Josh Arieh concluded.

The final table had begun with just six players after the late elimination of Jason Mercier on the penultimate evening of action. When the final table began, Glaser got off to a superb start as he strengthened his stranglehold on the table. Entering ten-figure territory, he then won a flip in No Limit Hold’em to oust Kristopher Tong in sixth place.

Maxx Coleman took out Paul Volpe in fifth before Josh Arieh then eliminated Coleman in an important hand, Coleman’s trip fours in PLO no good against the brilliantly slow-played full house from the seven-time bracelet winner Arieh. If the Atlanta-born pro was stung by being left out of the Poker Hall of Fame nominations in 2026, he showed exactly why many think his omission was a mistake, winning four hands in a row against Phil Ivey to leave the latter’s dreams of a 12th bracelet in tatters as the Poker Hall of Famer left in third.

Heads-up, Arieh led Glaser, but the British player fought back, a bluff among several no-showdown hands where the chips went his way. Arieh played well having fallen behind, making several correct folds, but ultimately couldn’t regain the momentum that sent him into the final duel, and when Glaser turned two-pair in Omaha Hi-Lo, he only had to fade one river to create poker history.

As the last river bricked, Glaser was the champion and he sunk to his knees as the moment overcame him in the Paris Ballroom. Here's how it finished in the WSOP 2026 Event #60, the $50,000 Poker Players Championship.

Glaser gets gold for ninth title in 11 years

The latest WSOP victory marked Benny Glaser’s ninth title in an 11-year period. No one in poker history has won so many bracelets in such a short space of time. While Glaser is still three years too young to be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame, the British player’s eventual inclusion is a sure thing. That he sits on the brink of 10 titles in such a period of time is phenomenal.

Winning his first bracelet in Limit 2-7 Triple Draw in 2015, Benny Glaser’s run since then has been nothing short of phenomenal. Taking two bracelets in the following year, Glaser earned the reputation of a mixed game great but then endured five fallow years in bracelet terms. Winning six more since 2021, however, he has joined the pantheon of poker legends right at the very top of the game, with only Erik Seidel, Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson (all 10), Phil Ivey (11) and Phil Hellmuth (17) ahead of him.

Now on nine WSOP bracelets, Benny Glaser has equalled the achievement of Johnny Moss in winning that number in the game and at the age of just 37, may yet threaten the very summit if he continues to win gold at this frequency. Tonight, the Poker Players Championship became the biggest achievement of Benny Glaser’s astonishing poker career.

Here are all nine of Benny Glaser’s World Series of Poker bracelet victories: