button in SafariCan the 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Eclipse Last Summer's Historic Results?
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If the 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is anything like 2025, it's going to be, to quote Gus Hansen, a great summer.
Last year's Las Vegas series had a record 100 gold bracelet events, but only 99 were awarded, thanks to the infamous Milly Maker final table collusion controversy. The WSOP, including online and multiple live stops, awarded a record 234 bracelets throughout the year.
The 2025 WSOP featured a rare triple-bracelet winner who wasn't even the summer's top performer.
Double Match Play Bracelets
One of the most impressive records broken last year that will be tough to top in 2026 was Artur Martirosian winning the $25,000 Heads-Up Championship for $500,000. In doing so, he became the first player ever to win multiple match play bracelets.
Martirosian also won the Online Heads-Up title for $424,698 in 2023. Yosef Fox is another player whose bracelet win was a rarity. The California poker player captured the $10,000 Mystery Bounty event for $729,333. His son, Jordan Fox, is a past bracelet winner, making them just the third parent-sibling combos to win WSOP gold.
| Parent | First Bracelet | Child | First Bracelet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doyle Brunson | 1976 | Todd Brunson | 2005 |
| Farhintaj Bonyadi | 2018 | Freddy Bonyadi | 1998 |
| Yosef Fox | 2025 | Jordan Fox | 2019 |
Aaron Cummings quietly went back-to-back in the same bracelet event, something that doesn't happen often. Cummings, for the second straight year, took down the $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw 6-Max for $157,152, beating out 635 entrants. In 2024, he won the same tournament for $146,516, top cash out of 574-entrant field.
Here's what's even crazier: Cummings only has five lifetime WSOP cashes, the fourth highest win-to-cash ratio ever.
Multi-Bracelet Winners by Win-to-Cash Ratio Since 2000
| Player (Years) | Bracelets | Cashes | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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% |
Summer of Benny
Benny Glaser winning a bracelet, or even multiple bracelets, in the same summer isn't a surprise. Entering the 2025 WSOP, he'd won five and had already proven he was among the top tournament players in the world.
But it's extremely rare for anyone, even the best of the best, to win three bracelets in the same summer. Just how rare is it? Only seven others in the 56-year history of the World Series of Poker had done it before Glaser, including Scott Seiver, who won three in 2024. Here's a list of the eight triple-bracelet winners.
| Year | Player | Events |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Puggy Pearson | #1: $4,000 Seven-Card Stud; #3: $1,000 No-Limit Hold 'Em; #7: $10,000 No-Limit Hold 'Em Main Event |
| 1993 | Ted Forrest | #5: $1,500 Razz; #6: $1,500 Limit Omaha 8 or Better; #17: $5,000 Seven-Card Stud |
| 1993 | Phil Hellmuth | #7: $1,500 No-Limit Hold 'Em; #18: $2,500 No-Limit Hold 'Em; #19: $5,000 Limit Hold 'Em |
| 2002 | Phil Ivey | #5: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud; #16: $2,500 Seven-Card Stud 8 or Better; #23: $2,000 S.H.O.E. |
| 2009 | Jeff Lisandro | #16: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud; #44: $2,500 Razz; #37: $10,000 Seven-Card Stud 8 or Better |
| 2014 | George Danzer | #18: $10,000 Razz; #38: $10,000 Seven-Card Stud 8 or Better; WSOPA #8 $5,000 8-game Mix |
| 2024 | Scott Seiver | #10: $10,000 Omaha Hi/Lo 8/OB; #40: $1,500 Razz; #72: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw 7-Max |
| 2025 | Benny Glaser | #8: $1,500 Dealers Choice 6-Max; #15: $1,500 Mixed Omaha 7-Max; #56: $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball |
Glaser joined another exclusive group during the 2025 WSOP. The British poker pro was one of three players, along with Shaun Deeb and Michael Mizrachi, to join the eight-bracelet club.
Players Who Won Their Fourth Bracelet or More at the 2025 WSOP
| Bracelets | Players |
|---|---|
| 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 five-bracelet milestone, and he also became just the fourth player ever to go five-for-five when heads-up for a bracelet, joining Brian Yoon, Daniel Alaei, and Robert Mizrachi.
Adrian Mateos Heads-Up for a WSOP Bracelet
| Event | Opponent | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 WSOP Europe Main Event | Fabrice Soulier | $1,351,661 |
| 2016 $1,500 No-Limit Hold 'Em | Koray Aldemir | $409,171 |
| 2017 $10,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold 'Em | John Smith | $335,656 |
| 2021 $250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold 'Em | Ben Heath | $3,265,362 |
| 2025 WSOP.com $3,200 NLH High Roller | Alex Kulev | $253,080 |
Leo Margets Makes History
Leo Margets, the seventh-place finisher, became the first woman since Barbara Enright in 1995 to reach the WSOP Main Event final taable. Enright finished fifth place 21 years ago, the highest finish ever by a woman.
No other woman has ever reached the final table in poker's World Championship event. But there are many others who've run deep, including Kristen Foxen, a future Poker Hall of Famer who finished 13th in 2024. Four women have come up just one spot shy of the final table, and they are Barbara Samuelson (1994), Susie Isaacs (1998), Annie Duke (2000), and Gaelle Baumann (2012).
Highest Female Main Event Finishes
| Year | Player | Place | Percentile | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Top the 2025 WSOP?
Glaser won three bracelets, Michael Mizrachi became the first player ever to win the Main Event and the Poker Players Championship in the same year, and neither of those superstars won WSOP Player of the Year in 2025. That's because Deeb racked up more points to win it for the second time in his career. That's just part of why it was such an entertaining series.
So, can the 2026 WSOP possibly surpass what we witnessed last summer? Yes, and we may even see some other milestones and records hit, including the 500th diferent player in history to become a WSOP millionaire (cash for at least $1 million in an event).
We'll also watch the 3,000th gold bracelet awarded and the 3,000th WSOP tournament take place before closing up shop on Aug. 5 when the Main Event final table concludes.
