Player snapshot
| Full name | Benny Jules Glaser |
| Nationality | British (England) |
| Date of birth | 7 June 1989 |
| Hometown / base | Born in Southampton; based in Eastleigh, England |
| Live tournament earnings | $11,122,754 (source: The Hendon Mob, as of 10 April 2026) |
| WSOP bracelets | 8 — the most of any European player |
| WPT titles | None (best: runner-up, 2022 WPT World Championship) |
| EPT titles | None (side-event win, Monte-Carlo, 2024) |
| Other notable results | WSOP Paradise $25K Super Main Event, 10th (2025) |
| Online record | Record holder for combined PokerStars COOP titles; screen name “RunGodlike” |
| Playing style | Mixed-game specialist |
| Sponsor / team | None publicly confirmed; works as a part-time poker coach |
Who is Benny Glaser?
Benny Glaser has won eight World Series of Poker bracelets, and not one of them came in No-Limit Hold’em. In a sport where almost every household name built a reputation at the Hold’em table, Glaser became the most decorated WSOP player Europe has ever produced by mastering the games most professionals quietly avoid — Razz, Omaha Hi-Lo, 2-7 Triple Draw, Dealers Choice, and the rotating mixed formats that reward depth over flash. That single fact is the key to understanding him: he is, by broad consensus in poker media, one of the best mixed-game players the game has ever seen.
The defining moment of his career so far came in the summer of 2025, when Glaser won three bracelets in the space of three weeks. The feat put him in a club of only seven players in more than half a century of WSOP history, alongside legends such as Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth, Ted Forrest, Jeff Lisandro and Scott Seiver. He also became the first player in WSOP history to win three mixed-game bracelets in a single series. The headline numbers — eight bracelets and over $11 million in live earnings — only hint at why this particular player matters.
What makes Glaser unusual is range. He has been dominant online as well as live, holding the record for combined PokerStars Championship of Online Poker titles under the screen name “RunGodlike,” and in 2022 he came within one hand of a No-Limit Hold’em world title. He is also, away from the felt, a guitar-playing musician and part-time coach. This profile traces how a teenager who loved chess and backgammon became the European face of poker’s most demanding games.
Early life and path to poker
Glaser was born in Southampton on 7 June 1989 and is based in nearby Eastleigh, on England’s south coast. Long before poker, he was drawn to games of pure strategy. According to PokerNews, as a youngster he was a keen player of chess and backgammon — disciplines that prize patience, pattern recognition and long-horizon decision-making over short-term aggression. Those instincts map cleanly onto the mixed-game formats he would later conquer, where edges are thin, variance is grinding, and the best players win through accumulated small advantages rather than single dramatic confrontations.
His first recorded tournament cashes came in England in the mid-2010s. He then made the trip that changes many serious players’ lives: he traveled to Las Vegas for the 2015 World Series of Poker. He did not come home empty-handed. Describing the moment to PokerNews after that breakthrough, Glaser said winning a bracelet was something he had dreamed about for a long time, and that it felt surreal to finally do it.
Glaser has never leaned heavily on a public origin myth or a manufactured persona. The strategy-games background, the guitar, the low-key home base outside the poker capitals — the picture that emerges is of a player who treats poker as a craft to be studied rather than a stage to perform on.
Career timeline and breakthrough
Glaser’s career follows a clean arc from promising specialist to record-setting great.
The first bracelet (2015). Glaser broke through at the 2015 WSOP, winning Event #33, the $1,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball, for $136,215. It was a statement of intent: a win in one of the purest tests of draw-game skill.
The double (2016). The following summer turned a promising résumé into a serious one. Glaser won two bracelets in the space of a week, both in Omaha Hi-Lo Split. First he took the $1,500 event for $244,103, then four days later he won the marquee $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship for $407,194 — beating a field of the format’s strongest specialists for combined cashes of more than $650,000. Two bracelets in a week is rare in any era; doing it in a single discipline marked him as a genuine master of it.
The Championship pedigree (2021–2023). Glaser proved his 2016 run was no fluke by repeatedly winning poker’s hardest “Championship” events — the $10,000 buy-in fields where the specialists gather. In 2021 he won the $10,000 Razz Championship for $274,693, defeating a final table that held 34 bracelets between eight players, including [[Phil Hellmuth]] and Erik Seidel. In 2023 he added the $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Championship for $311,428. Each title cemented his standing as the best in the room at the games most pros never learn properly.
The near-miss that proved his range (2022). Glaser’s biggest payday did not come in a mixed game at all. At the 2022 WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas — at the time the largest live poker tournament prize pool in history, drawing 2,960 entries — Glaser held the chip lead for long stretches and carried it into the final table. He ultimately finished runner-up to Eliot Hudon, losing a decisive hand when he moved all-in as a bluff into Hudon’s made straight. The result was worth $2,830,000, by far his career-best cash, and it showed the wider poker world that a mixed-game specialist could go toe-to-toe with the best No-Limit Hold’em players alive. Daniel Negreanu was among the field he outlasted.
The summer for the ages (2025). Coming into the 2025 WSOP with five bracelets, Glaser left with eight. After a slow start, he won Event #8, the $1,500 Dealers Choice — a format that rotates through 21 different poker variants — for $150,246, beating Matthew Schreiber heads-up. Days later he took Event #15, the $1,500 Mixed Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better, for $258,193. Then in late June he completed the trilogy with Event #56, the $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball, outlasting 463 entries to win $208,552 and defeat Schuyler Thornton heads-up. “It feels outrageous, honestly,” he told PokerNews. “Three in one series.”
Current status. Glaser remains active across live and online circuits. He cashed for $665,875 finishing 10th in the $25,000 Super Main Event at WSOP Paradise late in 2025, and The Hendon Mob recorded a further cash for him in April 2026, pushing his live earnings past $11.1 million.
Key titles and biggest results
| Event | Year | Finish | Prize | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WPT World Championship, Wynn Las Vegas | 2022 | 2nd | $2,830,000 | Career-best cash; rare deep No-Limit Hold’em run |
| $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship | 2016 | 1st | $407,194 | Second of two bracelets in one week |
| $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Championship | 2023 | 1st | $311,428 | Bracelet #5 |
| $10,000 Razz Championship | 2021 | 1st | $274,693 | Beat a final table holding 34 bracelets |
| $1,500 Mixed PLO Hi-Lo 8 or Better | 2025 | 1st | $258,193 | Bracelet #7 of the 2025 run |
| $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better | 2016 | 1st | $244,103 | First of the 2016 double |
| $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball | 2025 | 1st | $208,552 | Record-clinching 8th bracelet |
| $1,500 Dealers Choice | 2025 | 1st | $150,246 | Bracelet #6; 21-variant format |
| $1,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball | 2015 | 1st | $136,215 | First career bracelet |
The shape of this list tells the story. Eight bracelet wins, every one in a non-Hold’em game, with several in the elite $10,000 Championship events that draw the deepest specialist fields. This is not the profile of a one-hit wonder or a player who caught a single hot run. It is the record of a tournament specialist who has won across the entire spectrum of mixed-game disciplines — draw, stud, Omaha and rotation events — over a full decade. The lone outlier, the WPT World Championship runner-up, only sharpens the point: when Glaser stepped outside his specialty into the biggest No-Limit Hold’em field of all, he nearly won that too.
Playing style and strategic identity
Glaser’s edge is rooted in breadth and discipline rather than a single signature move. Mixed-game poker rewards players who can carry an accurate strategy across a dozen formats without leaking value when the game changes every few hands, and that is precisely where Glaser separates himself. Dealers Choice, the format of his sixth bracelet, requires mastery across 21 variants in a single tournament; Glaser navigated everything from stud to draw games to obscure mixed formats to win it. Few professionals are even competent across that range, let alone elite.
His temperament is as distinctive as his game selection. Asked about his comeback in the 2025 Mixed Triple Draw event, where he was repeatedly all-in for his tournament life against opponents who held commanding chip leads, Glaser described himself plainly to PokerNews: he is a fighter who is never going to give up, and is always going to be battling. That grinder’s resilience is visible in the results — multiple deep runs salvaged from short stacks, and a willingness to keep playing through fatigue and illness when a leaderboard is on the line.
That resilience has a cost, and Glaser is candid about it. During the 2025 WSOP he spoke about playing on almost no sleep, with one bracelet won after an accommodation mishap forced a middle-of-the-night hotel search, and the next after his brain simply refused to switch off from the adrenaline and stress of contention. He played No-Limit Hold’em events, high rollers and as many online tournaments as he could fit in, all at once. The picture is of a relentless competitor whose biggest opponent, by his own account, is often exhaustion rather than the players across the table.
His No-Limit Hold’em credentials, often underestimated because of his mixed-game fame, are real. Beyond the WPT World Championship final, he has won No-Limit Hold’em titles online during PokerStars’ marquee festivals — evidence that the “mixed-game specialist” label undersells a genuinely complete tournament player.
Online poker and the “RunGodlike” record
Glaser is as accomplished online as he is live, competing on PokerStars under the aptly chosen screen name “RunGodlike.” His specialty there mirrors his live identity: the overwhelming majority of his online titles have come in non-Hold’em events.
His online résumé is defined by the PokerStars Championship of Online Poker series — the Spring (SCOOP) and World (WCOOP) festivals. In 2024 he won his 11th SCOOP title to move clear atop the all-time SCOOP leaderboard, surpassing the previous co-record holder Calvin Anderson. He has also repeatedly extended his own all-time WCOOP record. Per PokerNews, his combined SCOOP and WCOOP haul stands as the most of any player in PokerStars history. Notably, he has won at least one WCOOP title every year since 2018, across a striking variety of games — Badugi, 2-7 Triple Draw, Pot-Limit Omaha, 5-Card Draw and, occasionally, No-Limit Hold’em.
His online and live careers reinforce each other. The volume and variety of online play keep his game sharp across every format, which is exactly the foundation a live mixed-game schedule demands.
Beyond the felt
Glaser keeps a relatively low profile away from the tables. His own social-media bio describes him as a part-time poker coach and musician, and he is a keen guitar player — a creative outlet that sits at odds with the popular image of the grinding tournament pro. He has appeared on poker media platforms to discuss his career, including a long-form interview on the CardsChat podcast, but he is not a high-volume content creator or streamer in the mold of many of his contemporaries.
There is no publicly confirmed information about a sponsorship or team ambassadorship at the time of writing, and Glaser appears to compete as an independent professional. He keeps his personal and family life largely private, and this profile does not speculate where verified information is unavailable.
Current status and what to watch
As of mid-2026, Glaser remains a fixture on both the live mixed-game circuit and the major online festivals, with recorded cashes continuing into 2026 and live earnings above $11.1 million. The most poignant thread heading into his next chapter is unfinished business. Despite his historic 2025 summer, Glaser narrowly missed the one accolade he has openly chased for much of his career — WSOP Player of the Year — losing it by a slim margin. He told Card Player that winning POY would have been a far more satisfying way to cap the summer, calling it something he had been working toward for a long time.
He is also building toward a likely eventual place among the game’s enshrined greats. Glaser is not yet eligible for the Poker Hall of Fame — induction requires players to be at least 40, and he turned 37 in June 2026 — but with eight bracelets, a unique three-mixed-bracelet summer and a record online portfolio, his candidacy looks like a matter of time. The thing to watch over the next 12 months is simple: whether Glaser, still in his late thirties and still grinding harder than almost anyone, can finally claim the Player of the Year title that has so far eluded him — and add a ninth bracelet that would push him further clear of every other European in WSOP history.
Frequently asked questions
Glaser has won more than $11.1 million in live tournament earnings, according to The Hendon Mob as of April 2026, with a career-best single cash of $2,830,000 for his 2022 WPT World Championship runner-up finish. He has also won well over a million dollars online. A precise net worth figure is not publicly verifiable, because cash-game and private results are not disclosed.
Glaser has eight WSOP bracelets, the most of any European player in WSOP history. All eight were won in non-Hold’em mixed games, including Omaha Hi-Lo, Razz, 2-7 Triple Draw, and Dealers Choice.
Glaser is a mixed-game specialist, widely regarded in poker media as one of the best of all time in non-Hold’em formats. His edge comes from elite breadth across many variants combined with a patient, resilient grinder’s temperament — he describes himself as a fighter who never gives up.
Glaser was born in Southampton, United Kingdom, on 7 June 1989, and is based in Eastleigh, England. He is the most successful WSOP player Europe has produced by bracelet count.
Yes. Glaser remains active on both the live and online circuits, with recorded tournament cashes continuing into 2026 and live earnings above $11.1 million.
Glaser plays on PokerStars under the screen name “RunGodlike.” Under that handle he holds the record for combined SCOOP and WCOOP titles, having won at least one WCOOP title every year since 2018, mostly in mixed-game formats.
Glaser was born on 7 June 1989, making him 37 years old as of June 2026.
Glaser won three bracelets in three weeks at the 2025 WSOP — in $1,500 Dealers Choice, $1,500 Mixed Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo, and $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball — becoming one of only seven players ever to win three bracelets in a single series and the first to do so entirely in mixed games. He narrowly missed the WSOP Player of the Year title that summer.