The British mixed games specialist Benny Glaser has been attending the World Series of Poker for many years. In 2025, he finished second in the WSOP Player of the Year race and won three bracelets in the 100-event series, the best of any player who took part.

After eight weeks of pulsating poker action, 100 bracelets were won in live events, and the Poker Hall of Fame got not one but two legendary new inductees. The 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) broke new ground at the Horseshoe and Paris casinos in Las Vegas this summer. The 56th annual WSOP had something […]

One of the closest races for WSOP Player of the Year ever came down to a handful of points as Shaun Deeb beat fellow PokerStake player Benny Glaser to the unique annual prize. As the last few events ticked by, Glaser had the chance for gold but fell just a few pay-jumps short in one […]

The World Series of Poker has already awarded 56 WSOP bracelets so far this summer. With just 43 events to conclude, the race is on to become the 2024 Player of the Year, where the winner will receive a “unique trophy”, entry into next year’s 2025 WSOP Main Event and – most importantly of all […]

The 2022 World Series of Poker saw a new Player of the Year in Daniel Zack, an enforced absence for the most successful WSOP player of all-time, Phil Hellmuth and a rousing rally from a rising star of the game, Daniel Weinman. As poker fans look back on a thrilling Series to watch we caught […]

Today sees the final table of the $25,000-entry PLO High Roller, otherwise known as Event #19, and with just five players left, two of the men who will fight for the $1.4 million top prize were last year’s WSOP Players of the Year. Josh Arieh won the overall leaderboard including all games, but Scott Ball […]

The poker world has spent the better part of the last five days celebrating Daniel Negreanu’s historic third World Series of Poker Player of the Year victory. It appears that those celebrations were a bit too hasty. A data entry error means that Negreanu did not win the POY after all and Robert Campbell is, in […]

On Friday at the 2019 World Series of Poker, Dan Zack finished off his 11th cash of the summer with a fourth-place result in the $10,000 Razz Championship. Not only did the run earn Zack another $94,305 in prize money, but it paid big dividends in keeping him in the lead in the WSOP Player […]

The race for WSOP Player of the Year is at a peak with the Main Event starting today. Last week, Shaun Deeb claimed top honors thanks to his win in the $25,000 Pot Limit Omaha High Roller. Deeb is in second-place and in his former throne is John Hennigan.

There are 22 events in the books at the 2018 World Series of Poker but the player who took down the first bracelet of the year continues to hold down the lead for Player of the Year.

Last summer, poker players at the World Series of Poker were boisterous in the dislike of the newly implemented Player of the Year scoring system. It appears that the suits that run the WSOP heard the complaints loud and clear and have made significant changes for 2018.

It’s no secret that the WSOP Player of the Year rankings are slightly weighted towards bigger buy-in events and through the holiday weekend, those bigger buy-in events are starting at the 2016 World Series of Poker. The $50,000 Poker Player’s Championship began Saturday and the $25,000 High Roller Pot Limit Omaha begins on Wednesday. The […]

The title of 2014 World Series of Poker Player of the Year officially belongs to George Danzer (pictured). The German won three WSOP bracelets in 2014, becoming the sixth player ever to win three bracelets in a single year. In that elusive department, he joins Puggy Pearson, Ted Forrest, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, and Jeffrey […]