Five More WSOP Bracelet Winners Add Big Stories In Las Vegas

Five more players have added bracelets at the 2026 World Series of Poker, and the latest group gives the summer a nice mix of history, relief, and first-time joy. Benny Glaser won the one title he wanted most, Joseph Liberta turned a huge Millionaire Maker field into $1,250,000, and three more players finally joined the bracelet club.

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Good to know

• Benny Glaser won Event #60: $50,000 Poker Players Championship for bracelet number nine.
• Joseph Liberta won Event #50: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Millionaire Maker for $1,250,000.
• Josh Reichard, Harry Rubin, and Prashanth Nataraj all won first career WSOP bracelets.

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Glaser Gets The Career Title While Liberta Wins The Crowd Favorite

Benny Glaser already had one of the best mixed-game records of his generation. Yet Event #60: $50,000 Poker Players Championship had stayed on his personal wish list for years. He had reached the final table twice before, but in 2026 he finished the job.

Glaser beat 108 entries for $1,343,764 and his ninth WSOP bracelet. The final table included Josh Arieh, Phil Ivey, Maxx Coleman, Paul Volpe, Kristopher Tong, and Jason Mercier, so no easy route existed. Glaser led for long stretches, Arieh took over before heads-up, and then Glaser answered back. The final hand came in Omaha eight-or-better, where Glaser turned better two pair and faded Arieh low and flush outs.

The win puts Glaser level with Johnny Moss on nine bracelets. He now sits one bracelet behind Doyle Brunson, Erik Seidel, and Johnny Chan.

Joseph Liberta also gave the series a feel-good story, but in a very different setting. Event #50: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Millionaire Maker drew 11,769 entries and created a $15,623,347 prize pool. Liberta first cashed the Millionaire Maker in 2013. Thirteen years later, he won it.

The Berlin, New Jersey player earned $1,250,000 and his first bracelet. He entered the final table in strong position, survived the swings, and took control late. The final table saw Yifu He, Garry Gurevich, Jacob Gagnon, Alex Kim, Joseph Baghdadlian, and Halford Fairchild exit before the final three. Liberta then beat Bradley Gafford with a turned straight and closed out Michael Monroig when trip fives held in the last hand.

Event #60 $50,000 Poker Players Championship Final Table Results

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

Event #50 $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Millionaire Maker Final Table Results

Place	Player	Payout
1	Joseph Liberta	$1,250,000
2	Michael Monroig	$1,000,000
3	Bradley Gafford	$750,000
4	Halford Fairchild	$530,000
5	Joseph Baghdadlian	$410,000
6	Alex Kim	$315,000
7	Jacob Gagnon	$245,000
8	Garry Gurevich	$190,000
9	Yifu He	$150,068

Three First Bracelets In Three Different Ways

Josh Reichard had already built a huge poker resume before Event #62: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em. The Wisconsin pro had 17 WSOP Circuit rings, two MSPT titles, and several painful near misses at the WSOP, including second in the 2023 Mini Main Event and third in the 2025 Millionaire Maker.

The bracelet finally arrived after he beat 1,736 entries for $555,198. Reichard started heads-up play behind Caleb Harris, but he quickly changed the match. The final hand ended with Reichard holding the nut straight while Harris tried a river bluff with a missed diamond draw.

Harry Rubin took a different path to gold. Known more for cash games, Rubin had already posted strong PLO results at ARIA and Wynn Las Vegas earlier in the summer. Event #57: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha then gave him a much bigger payday.

Rubin outlasted 3,763 entries for $390,300 and his first bracelet. He came into the final table in a strong chip position, fell back during five-handed play, doubled back into the race, and then knocked out the final three players. Toby Joyce finished third, and Narcis-Gabriel Nedelcu finished second.

Prashanth Nataraj delivered the best buy-in story of the group. Event #59: $500 No-Limit Hold’em Salute to Warriors turned into a $208,800 win for the New York City player.

Nataraj entered the final table as the shortest stack, doubled from the big blind with five-deuce, and stayed patient until three-handed play. He then removed Jeevan Lobo and Laurance Essak to win the bracelet. The event drew 4,478 entries, built a $1,835,980 prize pool, and raised nearly $180,000 for the USO and other veteran-focused charities.

Lexy Gavin-Mather and Holly Foley also made deep runs in the Salute to Warriors, finishing seventh and fifth.

Event #62 $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em Final Table Results

Place	Player	Payout
1	Josh Reichard	$555,198
2	Caleb Harris	$370,037
3	Spyridon Apartoglou	$267,938
4	Orson Young	$196,225
5	Myles Mullaly	$145,365
6	John Ciccarelli	$108,946
7	Maher Achour	$82,616
8	Robbie Bull	$63,399
9	Corentin Soulier	$49,241

Event #57 $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Final Table Results

Place	Player	Payout
1	Harry Rubin	$390,300
2	Narcis-Gabriel Nedelcu	$260,220
3	Toby Joyce	$191,500
4	James Sedlacek	$142,140
5	Roussos Koliakoudakis	$106,430
6	Francois Scapula	$80,390
7	Dechang Zhang	$61,260
8	Tony Cousineau	$47,100
9	Sasha Guerin	$36,542

Event #59 $500 No-Limit Hold’em Salute to Warriors Final Table Results

Place	Player	Payout
1	Prashanth Nataraj	$208,800
2	Laurance Essak	$137,370
3	Jeevan Lobo	$101,600
4	Sebastian Crema	$75,800
5	Holly Foley	$57,020
6	Robert Brobyn	$43,260
7	Lexy Gavin-Mather	$33,120
8	Daniel Wirgau	$25,570
9	Julien Duveau	$19,930

 

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