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Nine and Nine: The Week Glaser and Mizrachi Rewrote the WSOP 2026 History Books

30 Jun 2026

Pessi Lamm 30 Jun 2026

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Benny Glaser & Michael Mizrachi each win their ninth WSOP bracelet.
Finland’s Eelis Pärssinen claims the $25K High Roller & becomes country's top WSOP player.
Skye Chen, a poker newcomer, wins the Ladies Championship for $194,630.

Benny Glaser celebrates the Poker Players Championship victory with his 9th WSOP bracelet and the Chip Reese Trophy. (credit: WSOP.com)

There are weeks at the World Series of Poker where a couple of names bubble, a few familiar faces cash, and you move on. This was not one of those weeks. In the space of a few days at the tail end of June, two players reached nine WSOP bracelets, a pair of Finns fought each other for a $25,000 High Roller title, and a woman who picked up a deck of cards approximately two years ago walked out with nearly $200,000. Las Vegas had a moment.

Glaser Goes First. Nine Bracelets & The Chip Reese Trophy

UK's Benny Glaser did it the hard way, because the $50,000 Poker Players Championship does not come in an easy version. Five days of rotating mixed-game formats against a field that included Phil Ivey, Jason Mercier, Phil Hellmuth, and half a dozen other players with more bracelets between them than most cardrooms have seen in a lifetime. Glaser led from the front and never really let anyone threaten him.

He bagged 8.61 million chips going into the final day, nearly 700,000 clear of Maxx Coleman. Ivey, the biggest name left standing, went out third. Josh Arieh pushed him heads-up and ran second, same as he did in this same event back in 2019. Glaser closed it out for $1,343,764 and bracelet number nine.

That ninth puts him level with Johnny Moss and Erik Seidel. One behind Hellmuth, Ivey, Brunson, and Chan. For a British player, it is a genuinely historic place on the all-time list.

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Event #60: $50,000 PPC Final Table Results

Place	Player	Country	Payout
1	Benny Glaser	UK	$1,343,764
2	Josh Arieh	USA	$895,837
3	Phil Ivey	USA	$600,698
4	Maxx Coleman	USA	$417,607
5	Paul Volpe	USA	$301,405
6	Kristopher Tong	USA	$226,172
7	Jason Mercier	USA	$176,732

Worth noting what the Poker Players Championship actually is for anyone unfamiliar. It is not a single-game grind where one strong discipline carries you through. It's a rotation. Limit Hold'em, Stud, Omaha, Triple Draw, Razz, the lot. Any leak in your game gets found, eventually. Glaser had no leaks visible over five days against that company. The Chip Reese Trophy goes to the winner, and right now it belongs to him.

Then Mizrachi Showed Up

A few days later, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi won the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship for $1,350,203. His ninth bracelet. Same number as Glaser's, but different route entirely.

Mizrachi's final day was not particularly dramatic, which is its own kind of statement. He held over 80% of the chips coming in. Michael Hahn busted third for $627,832. Zarvan Tumboli pushed heads-up and actually clawed the deficit back to near-even before the final hand. Mizrachi flopped the worst of it and won anyway. That tends to happen when someone runs that hot going into a day with that kind of chip lead.

This from a man who won both the Main Event and the Poker Players Championship in the same calendar year just twelve months ago. A feat that might never be repeated.

Michael Mizrachi 9th bracelet — Michael Mizrachi wins his 9th WSOP Bracelet in $10K PLO Championship. (image credits: WSOP.com)

Finland Takes the High Roller

Eelis Pärssinen won the $25,000 High Roller Mixed NLHE/PLO. The heads-up opponent he beat was Juha Helppi. Also Finnish. The two best players in that final were both from Finland, which tells you everything you need to know about how far that scene has travelled.

Third bracelet for Pärssinen. Second of the 2026 series alone. He is now Finland's most decorated player in WSOP history, and he is not done yet.

The Full Weekend in One Table

Event	Buy-in	Winner	Country	Notable
#60: Poker Players Championship	$50,000 mixed	Benny Glaser	UK	9th bracelet; Chip Reese Trophy
$10,000 PLO Championship	$10,000 PLO	Michael Mizrachi	USA	9th bracelet; $1,350,203
#64: High Roller Mixed NLHE/PLO	$25,000	Eelis Pärssinen	Finland	3rd bracelet; Finland's best ever
#68: Ladies NLHE Championship	$1,000	Skye Chen	Taiwan	1,475 entries; $194,630
#65: Freezeout NLHE	$1,500	Ciro Gonzalez	Mexico	First bracelet
#59: "Salute to Warriors" NLHE	$500	Prashanth Nataraj	USA	$500 buy-in into six figures
Super Seniors NLHE	$1,000	Lionel Barracano	Mexico	Won amid the weekend's strangest subplot

undefined — The Super Seniors subplot: Andrew Martin's butt-plug. [image credits: pokernews.com)

Skye Chen: From Amateur to WSOP Bracelet Only In Two Years!

The $1,000 Ladies NLHE Championship went to Skye Chen, who beat 1,475 players for $194,630 and a gold bracelet. She started playing poker a couple of years ago. That is genuinely all the context needed. Sometimes the story tells itself.

The WSOP Main Event Is Next

Starting flights for the $10,000 Main Event are loading as you read this. The $10,000 8-Game Championship and $25,000 H.O.R.S.E. High Roller are still to come, along with the $50,000 No-Limit High Roller for those with the roll and the nerve for it.

Glaser has his ninth. Mizrachi has his ninth. Pärssinen has three and is already eyeing the schedule. The back half of WSOP 2026 has big shoes to fill. Whether the same names dominate again or something unexpected happens, the next few weeks in Las Vegas are worth paying attention to.

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