Benny Glaser Captures Two More WCOOP Titles to Reach 19 as 2026 Main Events Launch on PokerStars

Benny “RunGodlike” Glaser added two titles to his record at the 2026 World Championship of Online Poker. The wins arrived in under three hours on Saturday night, lifting his career WCOOP total to 19 just as the festival’s flagship Main Events began with more than $5.5 million guaranteed across three tiers.

Glaser first won the 102-H: $530 Stud, outlasting 36 entries to take $8,357. Less than three hours later he claimed the rescheduled 90-H: $530 HORSE for $11,082. The HORSE victory is his fourth in that format. The Stud win is his first, bringing the number of distinct WCOOP formats he has conquered to 12. This is the third year he has secured multiple titles, after four in 2022 and seven in 2023.

As reported by PokerNews, Glaser said on Instagram: “It’s been a good WCOOP so far. I haven’t played much of it this series […] but that’s now up to 19 WCOOP titles, as the most in the world, bust also now I’m tied for the most COOP titles overall, at 21 [alongside Patrick “pads1161″ Leonard. And there are three more days of it to go to finish strong!”

Main Events Draw Large Fields and Familiar Names

The $109 Low Main Event stands at roughly 3,550 entries from a field nearing 12,000, with registration open until after 6 p.m. BST. Average stack is around 84,000. Marle “MarlzTV” Spragg leads the PokerStars Team Pros with 68,000 chips. Ben “Spraggy” Spragg and Sebastian “peace&love” Huber, who won his third WCOOP title last week, have also advanced. Ukraine’s “InLoving” tops the counts with 502,565. Play resumes Monday and will reduce to 160 players.

In the $1,050 Medium Main Event, 690 of 1,884 players remain. “Splatt23” leads with 1,123,841 chips from a 100,000 starting stack. Spragg is the sole Team Pro left with 271,546, joined by Jonathan “Proudflop” Proudfoot, Rayan “Beriuzy” Chamas, Preben “prebz” Stokkan and Patrick “pads1161” Leonard. The $10,300 High Main Event has 69 players still in. Defending champion Gilles “TaxationIsTheft” Simon has busted twice with one re-entry left after winning $736,327 last year. Prior winners Samuel “€urop€an” Vousden and Ivan “ILS007” Stokes sit near the bottom and in 42nd, respectively. “Riverbanged,” runner-up in the 2024 Medium Main Event, currently leads.

Three days remain in the series. The scale of these events will test how current player pools respond to high-guarantee mixed and no-limit formats on a single platform.

Reporting: PokerNews

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