WSOP 2025 Day 10 Recap: Brilliant Benny Glaser Wins Second Bracelet in a Week to Take POY Lead

Nine more WSOP events took place on Day 10 of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) as British poker crusher Benny Glaser won his seventh WSOP bracelet and second inside a week in Las Vegas. Lou ‘AP’ Garza overcame a dominant chip leader as he took gold against Ben Lamb heads-up and in seven other events, players moved closer to glory in Las Vegas, Nevada.  

Benny Glaser Wins Seventh Bracelet in Style

British mixed games specialist won his seventh WSOP bracelet on Thursday night as he finished off Event #15, the $1,500 Mixed Pot Limit Omaha and No Limit Hold’em event, in style. With just three players coming back, David Shmuel left first, but Glaser and Travis Pearson battled for some time before the British player, who won his sixth WSOP bracelet just three days earlier, claimed another after a comeback win.

Pearson took a 2:1 chip lead into the final duel, but Glaser survived with a king-high flush and Pearson had mistakenly believed that the game was over. Far from it. Glaser doubled up, then took control before a pair of kings acted as confirmation of one of poker’s most successful ever players at the World Series of Poker claiming another crown.

"This one feels more outrageously surreal.” Glaser told reporters after victory. “It still hasn't sunk in. There were one or two hands that were pretty rough, but I was able to re-center myself back in. I was potentially going for Player of the Year anyway but I think this win makes it clear now that I'll be going for it.”

With a record like he has already at the WSOP this series, rather than wonder if Glaser can remain at the top of the POY leaderboard, the better question might be who can stop him?

WSOP Event #15 $1,500 Mixed PLO/NLHE Final Table Results

Garza Grabs Gold as Lamb Gets Burned

Heads-up affairs are packed with tension at the WSOP. There’s the gold, the top prize - in this case $1.3 million - and the momentary flashbulb prestige that goes with winning a WSOP title, but it hits different in years to come. There is an inescapable sense of permanence about winning a WSOP bracelet. Anyone who does so goes down in poker’s most-read history books, and Lou ‘AP’ Garza won a memorable one in Event #15, the $25,000 PLO/NLHE High Roller on Thursday night.

With just five players returning to the felt o play down to a winner, it was in the hands of the runaway chip leader Ben Lamb. The former third-place finisher in the WSOP Main Event had almost half of the chips in play, but after short stack Brandon Mitchell (5th for $303,773), Welshman Robert Cowen (4th for $421,524) and Chongxian Yang (3rd for $598285) all left, the heads-up battle did not go Lamb’s way at all.

It took a mammoth two hours, but as fans saw on the PokerGO live stream, Lou Garza came back from 4:1 down in chips to triumph in the end. 
You can read all about the action in detail here and watch all the highlights of the final table on PokerGO, too. 

WSOP Event #15 $1,500 Mixed PLO/NLHE Final Table Results

Bolhman and Smith Wait for Glory

Scott Bohlman and Dusti Smith will wait until Friday to see if either of them win Event #17’s bracelet as the $2,000 NLHE final table ended one place short of completion on Thursday night.  Bohlman (30,500,000) has the lead as he looks to win his second bracelet, while Dusti Smith (20,500,000) bids to win her debut gold in Las Vegas and in doing so become the first female bracelet winner since Brazil’s Vivian Saliba took a title last year.

With 1,692 total entries, the event saw Brazilian Rafael Mota (7th for $64,443) and Chinese player Quan Zhou (4th for $153,576) both fall short of glory at the final table before an overnight hiatus halted potential midnight celebrations on the rail. 

WSOP Event #17: $2,000 No Limit Hold'em Final Table

Hoening Hones in on Victory

Leading the chip counts for the second straight day, Ryan Hoenig is just two eliminations in his favor from gold and glory in Sin City. With a lead of 4,995,000 chips to Dylan Smith’s 2.22 million and Philip Sternheimer’s 1.91m, Hoenig has a great chance of winning what would be a debut WSOP title for any of the remaining players.

In a thrilling final table, Brandon Cantu (6th for $56,671) and Dario Alioto (4th for $106,935) both missed out despite banking sizeable scores that will likely mean a very profitable summer in Las Vegas whatever comes next. 

WSOP Event #18 $10,000 Dealers Choice Championship Final Table 

Wheeler the Final Bracelet Winner in Shootout

Jason Wheeler heads into the final day of the $1,500 Shootout Event #20 as the only former bracelet winner in the field. With 15 surviving a tumultuous Day 2 at the felt, Wheeler’s sole bracelet win is the only one among a list of players including stars of the felt such as Punnat Punsri, Jordan Westmoreland and Michael Rossitto who are yet to taste bracelet glory in Las Vegas.

Yockey and Anderson in Range

In Event #21, the $1,500 PLO Hi-Lo tournament, both Bryce Yockey (4.1m) and Calvin Anderson (2.25m) are in touch with the chip leader Zachary Zaret, who has 7.06m and the best chance of his career to win a maiden WSOP bracelet and the $248,245 top prize.

Another $25k Fantasy Draft pick Chris Vitch (3.79m) is also in contention for the bracelet, and with 10 bracelets between that trio alone, the final day could be one of the highest quality showdowns of the 56th annual WSOP so far, with 1,176 entries reduced to just 11 hopefuls with one day of action to come. 

WSOP Event #21 $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Chip Counts

Gathy Goes for Gold in 6-Max High Roller

Belgian player Michael Gathy has the chip lead after Day 1 of the $25,000 6-Max High Roller, with 1,836,000 chips. Elsewhere inside the top 10 chip counts, Nick Schulman (1,519,000), Jared Bleznick (1,300,000), Seth Davies (1,112,000) and David Coleman (1,027,000) all stacked seven figures of chips at the close of play.

With 272 players starting and just 72 surviving to Day 2, late registration remains open, although players such as Daniel Negreanu, Eric Seidel, Dan Smith, Artur Martirosian, Stephen Chidwick and Adrian Mateos all used both their entry and re-entry buy-ins, meaning they are unable to re-enter play. Stars such as David Peters (476,000), Brian Rast (612,000), and the 17-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth (150,000) all hung on to see if they can spin up a stack on Day 2.

WSOP Event #22 $25,000 6-Max High Roller Chip Counts

Danish Legend Reaches Top 10 in Colossus 

Day 1b of the $500-entry Colossus saw an incredible 3,309 players take part in the action, with some of poker’s finest in the top 10. Theo Rebur (1,504,000) was the French chip leader, with David Levy (1,495,000) closest behind, but legends such as Jeff Madsen (1,250,000), Jared Jaffee (1,235,000) and the Danish poker great Theo Jorgensen (1,077,000) all made the Day 2 cut in the upper limits too. 

WSOP Event #19 $500 Colossus NLHE Chip Counts

Fish Flying in Badugi

In Event #23, 534 total entries were whittled down to 98 survivors as the $1,500-entry Badugi event reached the brink of the money places. Only 81 players will get a piece of the $708,885 prize pool, with $138,114 and the WSOP gold bracelet reserved for the winner. Ray Fishman (441,000) leads after Day 1, with Arthur Morris (308,000) continuing his strong start to this year’s WSOP by reaching he top 10 too.

Other legends such as Dan Zack (198,000), Ben Yu (185,000), Adam Owen (149,000), David ‘ODB’ Baker (143,000), Phil Hui (133,000) and John Monette (120,000) all sit inside the top 50 players who will start Day 2.

WSOP Event #23 $1,500 Badugi Chip Counts 

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