WSOP 2025 – Benny Glaser Wins Sixth WSOP Bracelet, Other PokerStakers Book Big Wins
The World Series of Poker has blown up over a busy weekend of action, with PokerStake players front and center. Benny Glaser won his sixth WSOP bracelet, Renji Mao and Patrick Leonard made the final four of the $25,000-entry Heads-Up Championship and Tyler Phillips reached a final table in the 2-7 Seven Card Stud event. It’s already a great summer and we’re only a week in!
Benny Glaser Wins Sixth WSOP Title for $150,000
Event #8, the $1,500-entry Dealer’s Choice event, concluded on Sunday evening as PokerStake player Benny Glaser became the latest player to join the ‘Six Bracelet Club’. His victory over American Matthew Schreiber heads-up denied the latter his second bracelet as Glaser grabbed the glory yet again.
After his epic win, Glaser, who won $150,246 and the gold bracelet for outlasting a final table featuring Scott Bohlman and Steve O’Dwyer, claimed that the win might help his chances of entering the Poker Hall of Fame.
“More bracelets will be helpful for that,” he said. “I’d like to think it helps my legacy.”
That is without question. Now one of just 26 poker players to have won six WSOP bracelets – including Daniel Negreanu (7) and Josh Arieh (6), Glaser can look back on a phenomenal tournament that relied on all of his many years of experience.
When 14 came back to play down to a winner, Glaser battled into a strong position with six left then took out perhaps his most dangerous adversary in Steve O’Dwyer, two pair beating top pair after the flop. Departures for Scott Jacewiczokelly (5th for $31,747) and Scott Bohlman (4th for $45,511) came before Andrew Park went the same way, losing a flip in NLHE to bust to runner-up Schreiber.
After a heads-up battle where trip queens in Five Card Draw put Glaser in charge, Schreiber came back to grab the kead himself. Eventually, though, Glaser grinded back those chips and built his own lead. In No Limit Hold’em, he got his chips into the middle with ace-nine and ahead of Schreiber’s nine-eight, held to win the title and $150,246 – a super return on his $1,500 stake.
| WSOP Event #8: $1,500 Dealers Choice Final Table Results: | |||
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
| 1st | Benny Glaser | United Kingdom | $150,246 |
| 2nd | Matthew Schreiber | United States | $100,137 |
| 3rd | Andrew Park | United States | $66,755 |
| 4th | Scott Bohlman | United States | $45,511 |
| 5th | Scott Jacewiczokelly | United States | $31,747 |
| 6th | Stephen O’Dwyer | United States | $22,673 |
Artur Lands Third Gold as PokerStakers Go Close
Event #7, the $25,000-entry Heads-Up Championship, went to Russian player Artur Martirosian, who beat Belarus professional Aliaksei Boika to $500,000 and for the Russian, his third WSOP title. Denying Boika a maiden crown, Martiroisan also beat PokerStake’s Patrick Leonard in the semifinal. Another PokerStake player, David Chen, lost in the other semifinal, meaning between the British player Leonard and one of PokerStake’s most exciting players, Chen, those two players alone cashed for $180,000 each.
| WSOP Event #7: $25,000 Heads-Up Championship Results: | |||
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
| 1st | Artur Martirosian | Russia | $500,000 |
| 2nd | Aliaksei Boika | Belarus | $300,000 |
| 3rd | Patrick Leonard | United Kingdom | $180,000 |
| 4th | David Chen | United States | $180,000 |
| 5th | Thomas Eychenne | France | $86,000 |
| 6th | Chance Kornuth | United States | $86,000 |
| 7th | Harvey Castro | United States | $86,000 |
| 8th | Mike Shi | United States | $86,000 |
Phillips Final Tables as Heimiller Ends Wait
In Event #6, the $1,500 Seven Card Stud event, Dan Heimiller won his third bracelet 23 years after his first as PokerStake player Tyler Phillips bagged an impressive fifth-place finish. With the latest mixed game event attracting 377 entries and a prize pool of over half a million dollars, Heimiller beat David Bach heads-up for the title and $106,840, as Bach claimed $70,568. Phillips’ score of $23,271 was a terrific return for yet another deep run as the popular PokerStake player and American professional bids to win his first WSOP title this summer. Also in this event, the four-time bracelet winner Max Pescatori, cashed in 14th place for $4,864 and another strong PokerStake showing. The day belonged to Heimiller, who had one word to describe the reason for his longevity in the game when asked by reporters.
“Stubbornness. I wouldn’t quit poker when I should have!’ he laughed. “It was a little scary, and it looked like it was going to take a very long time. But fortunately, I had a lot more luck than [Bach]. All day I was catching two pair on sixth or seventh street. I was just so damn lucky.”
You don’t last two decades in the game from luck alone, but we’ll forgive Dan another bluff.
| WSOP Event #6: $1,500 2-7 Seven Card Stud Final Table Results: | |||
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
| 1st | Dan Heimiller | United States | $106,840 |
| 2nd | David Bach | United States | $70,568 |
| 3rd | Jyri Merivirta | Finland | $47,660 |
| 4th | MengQi Chen | China | $32,921 |
| 5th | Tyler Phillips | United States | $23,271 |
| 6th | Kristan Lord | United States | $16,842 |
| 7th | Sam Jaramillo | Canada | $12,487 |
| 8th | Greg Mueller | United States | $9,490 |
| 9th | Ian Gavlick | United States | $7,397 |
| 10th | Joey Couden | United States | $5,919 |
Daniel Negreanu Chasing Omaha Gold
In Event #9, the $10,000-entry Omaha Hi-Lo Championship saw PokerStake player Daniel Negreanu lead the final 20 players as Day 2 ended. Last year, Negreanu won his seventh WSOP bracelet after waiting over a decade to claim gold in Las Vegas when he won the $50,000 Poker Players Championship for $1.1m. Inside a year, Kid Poker could do it again if he takes it down tomorrow, with a $470,037 top prize on the line this time.
If the Canadian Poker Hall of Famer claims gold, he would move ahead of Billy Baxter, John Hennigan and Men ‘The Master’ Nguyen onto eight bracelet wins, with no-else on that number, going within one of ‘The Grand Old Man of Poker’, Johnny Moss. With players such as Maxx Coleman (1,020,000) Viktor Blom (840,000) and Joao Vieira (840,000) all in the top 10, it won’t be easy but Negreanu is in pole position to scoop an early bracelet and no-one has anywhere near his 1.5 million chips.
Play that Rocky soundtrack.
| WSOP Event #9: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Championship Chip Counts: | |||
| Rank | Player | Country | Chips |
| 1st | Daniel Negreanu | Canada | 1,550,000 |
| 2nd | Matthew Beinner | United States | 1,070,000 |
| 3rd | Maxx Coleman | United States | 1,020,000 |
| 4th | Ofir Mor | United States | 990,000 |
| 5th | Ryan Bambrick | United States | 985,000 |
| 6th | Viktor Blom | Sweden | 840,000 |
| 7th | Joao Vieira | Portugal | 840,000 |
| 8th | Ben Lamb | United States | 740,000 |
| 9th | Austin Marks | United States | 665,000 |
| 10th | William Remshardt | United States | 660,000 |
Blaise Bourgeois Bullies on Day 1 of Deepstack
The first day of Event #10, the $600-entry Deepstack NLHE event, saw an amazing 6,090 entries, with just 301 of them surviving to Day 2. One player who made the Day 2 cut with double the average stack was Blaise Bourgeois, who spoke to us just a fortnight ago about his excitement ahead of the 56th annual World Series of Poker.
With over $3 million in the prize pool for this event, Taha Benhmama (3,165,000) top scored on Day 1, with Sacha Guerrero (2,635,000), Blair Hinkle, (2,135,000), and Colter Sander (1,040,000) all still in the hunt on Day 2.
| WSOP Event #10: $600 NLHE Deepstack Chip Counts: | |||
| Rank | Player | Country | Chips |
| 1st | Taha Benhmama | Spain | 3,165,000 |
| 2nd | Sacha Guerrero | France | 2,635,000 |
| 3rd | Mukul Pahuja | United States | 2,595,000 |
| 4th | Blair Hinkle | United States | 2,135,000 |
| 5th | Adam Croffut | United States | 1,990,000 |
| 6th | Dustin Apperson | United States | 1,710,000 |
| 7th | Ashish Anilkumar | India | 1,530,000 |
| 8th | Jeremy Wien | United States | 1,460,000 |
| 9th | Vincent Moscati | United States | 1,330,000 |
| 10th | Brandon Mincher | United States | 1,305,000 |
Zobian Flying High in $10k Mystery Bounty Event
The 11th event of the WSOP saw 616 total entrants, with Richard Green (955,000) and Andrew ‘Lucky Chewy’ Lichtenberger (757,000) finish top two with 130 left and just 93 paid. Fifth in chips on 679,000 chips is PokerStake player Aram Zobian with Shannon Shorr (711,000), Oliver Weis (580,000), Michael ‘Texas Mike’ Moncek (554,000), Roberto Romanello (406,000) and Brian Rast (391,000) also soaring.
| WSOP Event #11: $10,000 Mystery Bounty Chip Counts: | |||
| Rank | Player | Country | Chips |
| 1st | Richard Green | United States | 955,000 |
| 2nd | Andrew Lichtenberger | United States | 757,000 |
| 3rd | Nick Palma | United States | 754,000 |
| 4th | Shannon Shorr | United States | 711,000 |
| 5th | Aram Zobian | United States | 679,000 |
| 6th | Yosef Fox | United States | 639,000 |
| 7th | Jun Obara | Japan | 638,000 |
| 8th | Joshua Stewart | United States | 608,000 |
| 9th | Oliver Weis | Germany | 580,000 |
| 10th | Jordan Siegel | United States | 566,000 |
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