Benny Glaser Wins Fifth World Series of Poker Gold Bracelet

Benny Glaser is the latest multiple-bracelet winner to add to his collection at the 2023 World Series of Poker. The 34-year-old poker pro from Southampton, UK emerged victorious in the $10,000 triple draw deuce-to-seven lowball championship, earning $311,428 and his fifth career WSOP bracelet.

Glaser’s victory in this event saw him become just the 36th player in poker history to have won five or more titles at the series. Earlier this summer Josh Arieh, Brian Yoon, and John Monnette also won their fifth bracelets.

“It’s a bit hard to do, obviously,” Glaser told Card Player when asked if he has a target in mind for the total amount of bracelets he might win. “I don’t really have any life goals like that. Obviously, [I’m] kind of trying to take one year at a time and try to play my best throughout the summer, and hopefully, the success will just continue out of improving and playing well.”

This was Glaser’s third bracelet won in a $10,000 championship event at the series, having also taken down the 2016 $10,000 Omaha eight-or-better championship and the 2021 $10,000 razz championship. He now has two bracelets in both Omaha eight-or-better and in triple-draw deuce-to-seven, having also won a $1,500 buy-in version of both of those tournaments in addition to the championships.

“This one did feel like it’s a bigger deal,” said Glaser win asked about winning this particular championship after taking down a smaller buy-in of the same variant earlier in his career. In regards to entering the later stages of both events with a big stack, Glaser noted, “It did feel more meaningful to potentially win this one, as opposed to that one. So, I do feel happier about winning this one.”

Glaser now has more than $7 million in recorded tournament earnings after this latest title run, with more than $3.2 of that coming from cashes at the WSOP.

This event took an extra day to complete. It was scheduled to run for three days, from June 15-17, but the play was halted with two contenders still remaining late on day 3. Glaser and Oscar Johansson were the only two players still in contention from the field of 130 entries. Plenty of big names were among the 20 players that made the money in this event, including Allen Kessler (18th), bracelet winner Ralph Perry (16th), six-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu (13th), and four-time bracelet winner Mike Matusow (12th).

Two-time bracelet winner Joao Vieira (7th), three-time bracelet winner David ‘Bakes’ Baker (6th), four-time bracelet winner Julien Martini (5th), and recent badugi bracelet winner Michael Rodrigues (3rd) joined Glaser and Johansson at the final table, but were knocked out during day 3 action.

Day 4 began with Glaser in the lead, holding roughly a 5:3 chip advantage over Johansson when cards got back in the air. It took roughly an hour for Glaser to close out the victory. An early flurry of pots saw Glaser extend his lead out of the gate before there was a bit of back-and-forth. Glaser then won a sizable pot with ‘number two’, or 7-6-4-3-2 to put even more distance between himself and his Swedish opponent.

In the final hand, Johansson was all-in after the second draw with J-10-8-4 facing the 9-7-6-5 of Glaser. Johansson showed his final card first. It was another ten, giving him a pair higher than any of Glaser’s cards. That meant that only an eight for Glaser would keep Johansson in contention. Glaser drew up an ace, though, to lock up the pot and the title. Johansson earned $192,690 as the runner-up finisher.

Here is a look at the payouts and rankings points awarded at the final table:

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