2025 World Series of Poker May 27th - July 16th
How many bracelets were available back in 2005 compared to now?
Okay, then, the $3 million that Blom lost to Patrik Antonius
The WSOP is pretty much a bracelet factory at this point. The Horseshoe Events Center has dedicated space for (I think) seven feature tables, so at least theoretically they could hold seven final tables at once.
It is worth pointing out that there are more bracelet events these days, but back in the day the fields were orders of magnitude smaller, so that it is much more difficult now to win a bracelet than it was twenty-plus years ago.
I don't doubt your number, but where did this number come from?
~100 live WSOP vegas bracelets. Some number of WSOP europe bracelets? I assume there are some number of online bracelets as well but still leaves a lot more to come from someplace else, what is that someplace else?
Not specific to your post but in general bracelets as someone mentioned are just marketing to 99.9% of poker players.
I play WSOP events in vegas for a few reasons.
Huge prize pools for small buy ins for just about any NL under 1k that you won't find anywhere else.
Larger field for mixed events, outside of the WSOP for any mixed game event it is hard to get over 100-150 players at any buy in.
Its a poker marathon vacation. There are tournaments, WSOP and others, pretty much 24/7, in almost any variant of poker you desire at almost any buy in level you like.
Sure I could win a bracelet maybe one day, but I care way more about the 6 figure payout then saying that I won a bracelet, I am not going to be in the poker hall of fame, or likely to win multiple bracelets so if I win one the bracelet would be just a neat souvenir. Nowadays many events in tournament series give you a plaque, or trophy of some sort, which is a cool little bonus on top of the money.
Congratulations to Benny Glaserfor winning his third wsop bracelet of the summer, and his eighth wsop bracelet overall.
Would really like to see him ship a fourth wsop bracelet this summer to shut up old windbag Phil Hellmuth.
The WSOP is pretty much a bracelet factory at this point. The Horseshoe Events Center has dedicated space for (I think) seven feature tables, so at least theoretically they could hold seven final tables at once.It is worth pointing out that there are more bracelet events these days, but back in the day the fields were orders of magnitude smaller, so that it is much more difficu
Not true with the existence of small field high rollers. If you have a big bank roll its a lot easier these days with the combination of small field donkaments and the ability to just continuously fire tournaments non stop for a few months.
The people from back then don't really win bracelets know. Unless they improved their game a lot like arieh.
The poker boom was 20 years ago. A lot of the old guard are just that now...old.
Congratulations to Benny Glaser for winning his third wsop bracelet of the summer, and his eighth wsop bracelet overall.
Would really like to see him ship a fourth wsop bracelet this summer to shut up old windbag Phil Hellmuth.
I sure hope he does. No bitter warhorses, or sunglasses-hoodies donking four SHRs or onlines.
I predict he wins the 3K TORSE, though looking at his wiki page he could certainly win anything. Aside from a woman, and the usual big names, him winning the Main for #4 would probably be the biggest publicity boost poker could get.
LOL him patiently explaining what the differences between NLHE and all the other bracelets & WCOOPs he’s won are to n00bs & ESPN/BBC types. Also seems like a personable camera-friendly chap, and Americans love British accents.
Suuuure they do...
I don't doubt your number, but where did this number come from?
~100 live WSOP vegas bracelets. Some number of WSOP europe bracelets? I assume there are some number of online bracelets as well but still leaves a lot more to come from someplace else, what is that someplace else?
1: WSOP Tournament of Champions Invitational
99: WSOP Las Vegas
30: Online NV/NJ/MI WSOP.com
7: Online WSOP.com PA
33: Online GGPoker World
8: Online GGPoker Canada
33: Online WSOP.com NV NJ MI WSOP.com, Part 2 [*]
4: Online WSOP.com PA, Part 2
15: WSOP Europe
15: WSOP Paradise Island
245 events total (+1 more bracelet for Tag Team)
* Correction: one of these was cancelled with insufficient players, so it was actually 244 events and 245 bracelets.
For those who are interested, Benny Glaser is Hero Value on Two Plus Two. He did a "well" (AMA) in the Omaha/8 subforum back in 2016-17. You can read it here: https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/44/om...
Congrats, Benny! Keep on crushing.
The fact that Benny Glaser is number 3 (and not number 1) on the WSOP POY leaderboard illustrates how ludicrous the scoring system still is
Some 0 social media presence grinder winning the ME will have 0 impact on poker. Obviously a crusher though (and sunrunner but people never want to admit that about great players).
The fact that Benny Glaser is number 3 (and not number 1) on the WSOP POY leaderboard illustrates how ludicrous the scoring system still is
Are we sure the standings have actually been updated to account for his last bracelet? Because I believe Glaser was in the exact same position a couple days ago before he won it, with at least approximately the same point total.
Can confirm that its not updated.
you can plug the event and field size into the poy calculator on wsop site.
he should have ~3245
(for event 47, i used the 20% after the final table)
Amazing it’s not updated after X number of days. They don’t have some intern in a back room who can literally update it every hour? Or god forbid some sort of automation to update it wouldn’t be very hard at all. Pretty lame.
I miss the city/state listings for the players in results. Any chance WSOP will do this?
Standing outside the side of Horseshoe today on break, I witnessed a homeless man take a ****. "Better than a bust-out story," I thought.
