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A look back at the historic records of the 2025 WSOP: Benny Glaser's three-time champion, Michael Mizrachi's two-time champion, Leo Margets's appearance at the Main Event final table, and an analysis of whether the 2026 WSOP can achieve similar success.
A look back at the historic records of the 2025 WSOP: Benny Glaser's three-time champion, Michael Mizrachi's two-time champion, Leo Margets's appearance at the Main Event final table, and an analysis of whether the 2026 WSOP can achieve similar success.
If the 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP) has anything in common with 2025, then, in Gus Hansen’s words, it’s going to be a great summer.
Last year's Las Vegas Series originally planned to host a record 100 bracelet events, but due to the controversy surrounding the Infamous "Millionaire Maker" final table collusion, only 99 bracelets were awarded. Including online and multiple live events, the WSOP awarded a record 234 bracelets throughout the year.
The 2025 WSOP saw a rare triple crown winner, who wasn't even the best performer that summer.
Two-person duel gold bracelet
One of the most impressive records broken last year was by Artur Martirosian. Win in the 25,000 heads-up tournament and win500,000. He thus became the first player in history to win multiple heads-up tournament gold bracelets.
Martirosian also won the online heads-up tournament in 2023, with a prize of... 424,698. Yosef Fox is another player to win a rare gold bracelet. This California poker player...He won the 10,000 Mystery Bounty Tournament, earning $729,333. His son, Jordan Fox, is a past bracelet winner, making them the third father-son duo to win a WSOP bracelet.
| parents | First gold bracelet | child | First gold bracelet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doyle Brunson | 1976 | Todd Brunson | 2005 |
| Farhintaj Bonyadi | 2018 | Freddy Bonyadi | 1998 |
| Yosef Fox | 2025 | Jordan Fox | 2019 |
It's rare for Aaron Cummings to quietly win the same gold bracelet event two years in a row. Cummings won for the second consecutive year. In a 1,500 Limit 2-7 Low Card Three-Draw 6-Max event, he defeated 635 entrants to win.157,152. In 2024, he won the same tournament, standing out from a field of 574 players with a score of $146,516.
Even more astonishing is that Cummings has only won five WSOP prizes in his career, and his winning percentage (number of wins/number of prizes) is the fourth highest in history.
Winning percentage (number of wins / number of prizes) of multiple gold bracelet winners since 2000
| Contestant (Year) | gold bracelet | Number of bonuses | percentage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maximilian Klostermeier (2019-24) | 2 | 3 | 66.70% |
| Matt Perrins (2011-13) | 2 | 4 | 50.00% |
| Joseph Gao (2025) | 2 | 4 | 50.00% |
| Aaron Cummings (2019-25) | 2 | 5 | 40.00% |
| Darius Neagoe (2024-25) | 2 | 5 | 40.00% |
Benny's Summer
It's not surprising that Benny Glaser won one, or even multiple, gold bracelets in the same summer. He'll have won five by the time of the 2025 WSOP and has already proven himself to be one of the world's top tournament players.
But for anyone, even the best players, winning three gold bracelets in the same summer is extremely rare. How rare? Before Glaser, only seven people in the 56-year history of the World Series of Poker had achieved this, including Scott Seiver, who won three in 2024. Here is a list of eight triple crown winners.
| years | player | Tournament |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Puggy Pearson | #1: 4,000 Seven-Card Stud; #3: 1,000 No-Limit Texas Hold'em; #7: $10,000 No-Limit Texas Hold'em Main Event |
| 1993 | Ted Forrest | #5: 1,500 Razz; #6: 1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Lo; #17: $5,000 Seven-Card Stud |
| 1993 | Phil Hellmuth | #7: 1,500 No-Limit Texas Hold'em; #18: 2,500 No Limit Texas Hold'em; #19: $5,000 Limit Texas Hold'em |
| 2002 | Phil Ivey | #5: 1,500 Seven-Card Stud; #16: 2,500 Seven-Card Stud High/Low; #23: $2,000 SHOE. |
| 2009 | Jeff Lisandro | #16: 1,500 Seven-Card Stud; #44: 2,500 Razz; #37: $10,000 Seven-Card Stud High/Low |
| 2014 | George Danzer | #18: 10,000 Razz; #38: 10,000 Seven-Card Stud High/Low; WSOPA #8 $5,000 8-Game Mixed Tournament |
| 2024 | Scott Seiver | #10: 10,000 Omaha high/low; #40: 1,500 Razz; #72: $10,000 No Limit 2-7 Low Card Draw 7-Player Table |
| 2025 | Benny Glaser | #8: 1,500 Banker selects 6-player table; #15: 1,500 Mixed Omaha 7-Max Table; #56: $2,500 Mixed Three-Draw Low Card |
During the 2025 WSOP, Glaser also joined another solo club. He is one of three players to join the club of eight gold bracelets, along with Shaun Deeb and Michael Mizrachi.
Players who win their fourth or more gold bracelets at the 2025 WSOP
| Number of gold bracelets | player |
|---|---|
| 8 | Benny Glaser, Michael Mizrachi, & Shaun Deeb |
| 7 | Nick Schulman & Brian Rast |
| 5 | Brad Ruben, Adrian Mateos, Martin Kabrhel, & Mike Gorodinsky |
| 4 | Joao Vieira, David 'ODB' Baker, Ian Johns, Daniel Zack, Chad Eveslage, & Sam Soverel |
Adrian Mateos is one of the players to reach the milestone of five gold bracelets, and he also becomes the fourth player in history to achieve a perfect record of five wins in head-to-head matches for a gold bracelet, joining Brian Yoon, Daniel Alaei, and Robert Mizrachi.
Adrian Mateos's heads-up record in the WSOP gold bracelet race
| Tournament | opponent | bonus |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 WSOP European Main Event | Fabrice Soulier | $1,351,661 |
| 2016 $1,500 No-Limit Texas Hold'em | Koray Aldemir | $409,171 |
| 2017 $10,000 No-Limit Texas Hold'em Heads-Up Tournament | John Smith | $335,656 |
| 2021 $250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Texas Hold'em | Ben Heath | $3,265,362 |
| 2025 WSOP.com $3,200 No-Limit Texas Hold'em High Roller Tournament | Alex Kulev | $253,080 |
Leo Margets Makes History
Leo Margets, who finished seventh, became the first woman to reach the WSOP Main Event final table since Barbara Enright in 1995. Enright's fifth-place finish 21 years ago was the highest ever achieved by a woman in the event.
No other female player has ever reached the final table of this World Championship. However, many others have made it to the deep rounds, including future Poker Hall of Famer Kristen Foxen, who finished 13th in 2024. Four other women have come very close to the final table: Barbara Samuelson (1994), Susie Isaacs (1998), Annie Duke (2000), and Gaelle Baumann (2012).
Highest ranking by a female player in the main event
| years | player | Ranking | percentile | bonus |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Barbara Enright | 5 | 98.17% | $114,180 |
| 2025 | Leo Margets | 7 | 99.93% | $1,500,000 |
| 2012 | Gaelle Baumann | 10 | 99.85% | $590,442 |
| 2000 | Annie Duke | 10 | 98.05% | $52,160 |
| 1998 | Susie Isaacs | 10 | 97.14% | $40,000 |
| 1994 | Barbara Samuelson | 10 | 96.27% | $26,880 |
| 2012 | Elisabeth Hille | 11 | 99.83% | $590,442 |
| 1997 | Marsha Waggoner | 12 | 96.15% | $33,920 |
| 2024 | Kristen Foxen | 13 | 99.87% | $600,000 |
| 2005 | Tiffany Williamson | 15 | 99.73% | $400,000 |
Can the 2026 WSOP surpass the 2025 WSOP?
Glaser won three gold bracelets, Michael Mizrachi became the first player in history to win both the Main Event and the Poker Players Championship in the same year, and neither of these superstars won the 2025 WSOP Player of the Year award. That's because Deeb accumulated more points, winning the honor for the second time in his career. That's only part of why this series is so captivating.
So, is it possible for the 2026 WSOP to surpass everything we witnessed last summer? The answer is yes, and we may even see some other milestones and records broken, including the 500th different player in history to become a WSOP millionaire (winning at least $1 million in a single event).
We will also witness the awarding of the 3,000th gold bracelet and the holding of the 3,000th WSOP Championship, which will conclude on August 5th with the closing of the Main Event final table.
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