Benny Glaser’s WCOOP record now reads 19 titles after the British mixed-game specialist banked two more trophies in under three hours on Saturday at the 2026 World Championship of Online Poker. Glaser also tied Patrick Leonard atop the combined WCOOP and SCOOP leaderboard with 31 career titles between the two PokerStars flagship series, a milestone that cements his place as one of online poker’s most durable grinders.
Benny Glaser’s WCOOP Record: Two Titles in One Afternoon
Glaser’s latest run began in WCOOP 102-H, a $530 buy-in Seven Card Stud event that drew 36 entries. He outlasted the field to collect $8,357, holding off TheePr0d1gy from the United Kingdom, who banked $5,187 for second, and Canada’s plattsburgh, who took $3,219 for third. It was Glaser’s first-ever WCOOP title in Stud specifically, a notable gap finally closed in a career built almost entirely around rotation games.
He barely had time to celebrate. Less than three hours later, Glaser was back at a final table in WCOOP 90-H, a $530 HORSE event, and closed it out for $11,082. Denmark’s Christian “CMoosepower” Elgstrom finished runner-up for $6,850, while Germany’s NicoBoko rounded out the podium with $4,234. The win was Glaser’s fourth WCOOP title specifically in HORSE, extending a resume that now spans an extraordinary 12 different poker variants with at least one WCOOP crown attached to each.
The only Brazilian to cash across either final table was a player using the screen name gganbu, who finished seventh in one of the two events for $1,203, a modest return but still a mark of how deep Glaser had to play through to add both trophies on the same day.
A Record That Keeps Moving Further Away
Nineteen WCOOP titles is not just a personal best, it is a number no other player has approached across the series’ twenty-five year history. PokerStars launched WCOOP in 2002, and Glaser’s collection of trophies now spans everything from Limit Hold’em to Badugi to Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw, a spread that reflects genuine mastery of poker’s less mainstream formats rather than repeated success in a single specialty. Combined with his SCOOP titles won each spring, his 31 total championships across the two series ties him with Patrick Leonard, another mixed-game standout, for the outright lead.
What makes the achievement more striking is the format. WCOOP High Roller no-limit hold’em events attract stacked fields of aggressive young grinders, but the mixed-game side of the schedule rewards a narrower, more technical skill set built over years at the tables. Glaser has essentially cornered that market, treating Stud, Razz, Omaha Hi-Lo and their rotation-game cousins the way other players treat their single best format.
Live Résumé Just as Deep
Glaser’s online dominance runs in parallel with a live career that has made him one of the sport’s most respected mixed-game players. Born in Southampton, England, he has banked over $15.5 million in live tournament cashes, good for a spot among the top fifty players on poker’s all-time money list. His nine World Series of Poker bracelets tie him for fifth on the WSOP’s all-time list, a total he reached in 2026 by winning the $50,000 Poker Players Championship, arguably the most prestigious mixed-game title on the WSOP calendar. He became just the seventh player in WSOP history, and the first since Erik Seidel in 2021, to reach nine bracelets. A year earlier, in 2025, Glaser became the first player ever to win three mixed-game bracelets at a single WSOP, a stretch that included back-to-back victories in the same event.
That blend of live and online success is rare even among top mixed-game professionals, many of whom lean heavily toward one format or the other. Glaser’s willingness to grind marathon online schedules alongside a full live circuit calendar has become something of a running theme in coverage of his career, and Saturday’s double only adds to it.
The Race to Close Out WCOOP 2026
The 2026 WCOOP marks the series’ 25th anniversary and runs from September 6 through September 30, spanning 121 numbered events and 350 individual tournaments across three buy-in tiers, with $40 million in total guarantees on the line. Every one of those 350 tournaments crowns its own champion, which means Glaser’s two Saturday wins came inside one of the most crowded title races of the year. Brazilian star Renan Bruschi has also been chasing history in this year’s series, having already become the first player to win four titles in a single WCOOP edition, and the two storylines have run on parallel tracks for much of September.
With the series winding down, Glaser’s rivals have only a handful of remaining high buy-in mixed events to close the gap, and given his specialization, few expect him to slow down before the final bracelet-style trophy of WCOOP 2026 is handed out. For newcomers trying to understand why these rotation formats produce such lopsided results at the top, Poker Pro Academy’s poker hand rankings guide is a useful starting point, since several of the games in Glaser’s collection use hand values that differ sharply from standard No-Limit Hold’em.
Glaser is expected to keep playing selective mixed-game events through the remainder of the series. Whether anyone catches him this year, or ever, remains an open question in an era when most young talent gravitates toward No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha instead of the rotation games he has made his own.
