WSOP Player of the Year latest

Benny Glaser no longer leads the series leaderboard despite being the only man to boast two bracelets so far.

As the 56th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) passes the halfway point, the race to become the 2025 Player of the Year could hardly be closer. The challenge? To win a banner at the Horseshoe Las Vegas or Paris casino in Las Vegas, a $10,000-entry Main Event seat for 2026 and the trophy.

While Benny Glaser remains the only player in the POY race to have won multiple events, taking down both Event #8, the $1,500 Dealer’s Choice event and Event #15, the $1,500 Mixed PLO 8 or Better event to move onto seven bracelets, the British player has been nudged into second place on the leaderboard this week by Scott Bohlman. The American, who won Event #17, the $2,000 NLHE event for $436,044, has cashed an incredible eight times since the start of this summer’s WSOP.

After victory, Bohlman, who now has two WSOP titles, said: “It feels good, I have never won a big field No Limit Hold’em [event] in 25 years.”

Bohlman now sits on 2,397 points to Glaser’s 2,035, though it is worth remembering that a maximum of 10 cashes can count towards any player’s final POY tally.

Bohlman’s mixed games skills have been on show, just like Glaser’s. How both men deal with the battle ahead in the second half of the WSOP could prove key.

Who Else is Close to the Summit?

Another big mover in the past fortnight has been Caleb ‘Bruno’ Furth (1,623 points). Winning Event #5, the $5,000 PLO 8-Max event, for a career-high score of $620,696, Furth added to this win with a runner-up showing in Event #36, the PLO 8 or Better Championship for a further $508,705, meaning he’s won almost half of his lifetime earnings in poker in the past three weeks in Las Vegas. He also has a PLO tournament victory at the Wynn Summer Classic to his name in June, a result worth a further $154,538, but that doesn’t count towards the POY points.

Another name on the rise is Joao Vieira (1,568 points), who won the $100,000-entry 8-Max High Roller Event #38 for $2.64 million. Along with four other cashes, Vieira has every chance of another bracelet in the $10,000 Razz Championship, where he’ll return to play down to a winner tonight eighth in chips with 12 remaining. The win would put Vieira second on the POY leaderboard.

With others such as the consistent Nick Schulman (1,366 points), first-time winner Ryan Hoenig (1,316 points) and Swedish sensation Viktor Blom (1,194 points), who has reached five final tables, all in the hunt, it could be the closest POY race for many years.