Poker, you know, rarely offers photo finishes—cards flip, chips move, someone bags a bracelet and the drama moves on. This time the drama lingered. Shaun Deeb’s 40-point cushion over Benny Glaser kept fans refreshing the leaderboard deep into the small hours, until the final turbo event closed and history, basically, clicked “save.” WSOP.comPokerNews
A Margin Thinner Than a Credit Card
Deeb’s official tally read 4,194.1 points, Glaser’s 4,153.66. That’s 0.96%—peanuts in a summer with 100 bracelet events. WSOP.com
For two weeks the New York pro perched on top, yet he couldn’t coast; each min-cash from Glaser shaved the gap.
Could he really be caught with only two events left? The nervous refresh-refresh routine said even Deeb wasn’t sure.
The deciding boost arrived on 3 July when Deeb banked the $100k Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller for a career-best $2.96 million and his seventh gold bracelet. PokerNews
He celebrated, sure, but softly—the job wasn’t done.
Glaser’s Triple-Bracelet Surge Made It a Thriller
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Event #18 : $10k Dealers Choice
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Event #37 : $25k H.O.R.S.E.
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Event #56 : $2.5k Mixed Triple Draw
Each win jolted the Brit past bigger names and into striking distance. PokerGO Tour
His edge? Fewer cashes. Every fresh result still counted—so a 74th-place min-cash on 14 July moved the needle while Deeb’s next mini-score merely replaced a weaker line.
Last-day sweat: Glaser busted The Closer in 114th, punted the series-ending Super Turbo within an hour, and—just like that—the chase was over. PokerNews
Mizrachi’s Double Blockbuster and Still No Crown
Michael Mizrachi, “The Grinder,” pulled off something bordering on ridiculous—he won the $50k Poker Players Championship and the $10k Main Event, the two glamour trophies every grinder (small g) dreams about. BILDWikipedia
Yet his POY stack stalled at 3,804.96 points, good for third. One sentence, but it stings. WSOP.com
The PPC title was worth $1.33 million; the Main Event paid $10 million and headlines worldwide. Money, however, doesn’t buy leaderboard equity unless you keep racking up deep runs, and Mizrachi managed just 11 cashes all summer. BILDWikipedia
“I’ve done the double, but numbers are numbers,” he shrugged in the post-event scrum, half-smiling like a man who knows he’ll sleep fine anyway.
One more: this is the second time Mizrachi’s combo of Main and PPC podiums hasn’t been enough—back in 2010 he finished behind Frank Kassela, déjà vu with brighter lights. PokerNews
Where the Race Was Won: Data at a Glance
Single-sentence lead: No speculation—here’s the scoreboard that closed the book.
| Rank | Player | Points | 2025 Bracelets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shaun Deeb | 4,194.1 | 1 |
| 2 | Benny Glaser | 4,153.66 | 3 |
| 3 | Michael Mizrachi | 3,804.96 | 2* |
| 4 | Martin Kabrhel | 3,639.41 | – |
| 5 | Scott Bohlman | 3,328.86 | – |
Those 40.44 points—in old money, roughly the buy-in for a $400 Daily Deepstack—matched the margin on the spreadsheet that lives forever at WSOP.com.
Second POY trophy puts Deeb beside Daniel Negreanu (2004, 2013) as the only dual winners; a banner bearing his name will soon hang in the Horseshoe rafters, a permanent reminder that, yeah, poker sometimes awards consistency over fireworks.
