WSOP Bracelet Leaders: All-Time List and Data (2026)

The World Series of Poker bracelet is the most recognizable trophy in the game, and the list of players who have collected the most of them is the closest thing poker has to a hall-of-fame leaderboard. This reference page compiles the WSOP bracelet leaders in one place: every player with seven or more bracelets, the years of their first and last wins, the length of each career window, and the structural changes at the WSOP that made bracelets easier or harder to win over time. All figures are drawn from the sources listed at the bottom of the page and are current to the dates stated there.

Key Findings

Phil Hellmuth leads the all-time WSOP bracelet list with 17, six clear of Phil Ivey (11). Three players tie for third at 10 bracelets (Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Erik Seidel). Eighteen players have seven or more bracelets, together holding 156 of them. The WSOP has grown from a single event in 1970 to 100 live and 30 online events in 2026, so the bracelet pool keeps expanding.

Methodology and Data Notes

Bracelet counts in this article come from the Wikipedia compilation of World Series of Poker multiple-bracelet winners, which states that its data is current as of 10 June 2026 and excludes a review of the 2025 WSOP Online series. We cross-checked leader counts against PokerNews' bracelet explainer and the PokerListings record page, which carries an as-of date of July 24, 2026. Where sources differ, we say so explicitly. Derived figures, such as career span (last bracelet year minus first bracelet year) and bracelets per year of span, are our own arithmetic on those published numbers; they are labeled as derived and should not be read as official WSOP statistics.

Two caveats apply throughout. First, bracelet totals change every summer, so any list is a snapshot. Second, the WSOP began awarding physical bracelets in 1976 and retroactively credited earlier winners, which is why Johnny Moss's 1970 win counts toward his total. For the official live standings, see the WSOP all-time bracelet winners page.

The All-Time WSOP Bracelet Leaderboard

The table below ranks every player with at least seven WSOP bracelets. "Career span" is a derived column: the last bracelet year minus the first. Ties are listed in the order given by the source table.

Rank	Player	Bracelets	First Win	Last Win	Span (Years)
1	Phil Hellmuth	17	1989	2023	34
2	Phil Ivey	11	2000	2024	24
3	Doyle Brunson	10	1976	2005	29
4	Johnny Chan	10	1985	2005	20
5	Erik Seidel	10	1992	2023	31
6	Benny Glaser	9	2015	2026	11
7	Johnny Moss	9	1970	1988	18
8	Shaun Deeb	8	2015	2025	10
9	Michael Mizrachi	8	2010	2025	15
10	Nick Schulman	8	2009	2026	17
11	Calvin Anderson	7	2014	2026	12
12	Josh Arieh	7	1999	2025	26
13	Billy Baxter	7	1975	2002	27
14	John Hennigan	7	2002	2024	22
15	Daniel Negreanu	7	1998	2024	26
16	Men Nguyen	7	1992	2010	18
17	Brian Rast	7	2011	2025	14
18	Scott Seiver	7	2008	2024	16

Note that PokerNews' bracelet explainer lists Benny Glaser at eight bracelets and ranks him tied with Shaun Deeb, while the Wikipedia table (data through 10 June 2026) shows nine with a last win in 2026. This is a timing difference: Glaser's most recent win appears in the later source. It illustrates why every bracelet list should be read with its as-of date.

Phil Hellmuth: 17 Bracelets Across 34 Years

Hellmuth won his first bracelet in 1989 and his most recent in 2023, a 34-year window, and he remains the only player past 11. PokerListings breaks his total down by game: ten in No-Limit Hold'em, three in Limit Hold'em, one in Pot-Limit Hold'em, two in Razz, and one in No-Limit 2-7 Lowball. His largest single bracelet prize listed there is $1,022,376 from a 2012 WSOP Europe Main Event in France. Seventeen bracelets in 34 years works out to roughly one every two years (derived). Only Johnny Chan, at ten bracelets in a 20-year window, matches that rate.

Phil Ivey and the Non-Hold'em Edge

Ivey sits second with 11 bracelets, won between 2000 and 2024. PokerListings notes that seven of those 11 came in non-Hold'em formats, including H.O.R.S.E., Omaha, and Razz, making him the leader in non-Hold'em bracelet wins. That split is a useful reminder that the bracelet schedule rewards versatility: a large share of the events on any WSOP calendar are mixed or draw-style games where pure No-Limit Hold'em skill is not enough.

The Three-Way Tie at 10

Doyle Brunson (1976 to 2005), Johnny Chan (1985 to 2005), and Erik Seidel (1992 to 2023) each hold ten. Brunson died in May 2023. Seidel's span of 31 years is the second-longest among the top five by this derived measure, behind only Hellmuth's 34. Johnny Moss, who won the first bracelet-credited event in 1970, sits at nine and last won in 1988; he died in December 1995.

Players With Six Bracelets

Just below the seven-bracelet group is a deep bench of players with exactly six: Jeremy Ausmus, T.J. Cloutier, Yuri Dzivielevski, Chris Ferguson, Layne Flack, Ted Forrest, Kristen Foxen, Brian Hastings, Jay Heimowitz, Jeff Lisandro, Adrián Mateos, and Jason Mercier. That is twelve players, which means thirty players in total have reached six or more bracelets according to the compilation. Kristen Foxen is the women's leader; PokerNews lists her total as five in its explainer, while the Wikipedia table (later data) lists her at six, another snapshot-timing difference.

The five-bracelet club is also long, and includes Daniel Alaei, Gary Berland, David Chiu, Allen Cunningham, Eli Elezra, Adam Friedman, Mike Gorodinsky, Berry Johnston, John Juanda, Martin Kabrhel, Jeff Madsen, Robert Mizrachi, John Monnette, Scotty Nguyen, Brad Ruben, Stu Ungar, Brian Yoon, and Anthony Zinno. Many of these names are better known for Main Event or high-roller results than for bracelet volume, which shows how hard it is to win even five.

Career Span vs. Bracelet Rate

Raw bracelet totals reward longevity. To see who converted fastest, we divided each player's bracelets by their career span in years. This is a rough, derived measure that ignores gaps and years without wins, but it separates players with compressed hot streaks from long-career accumulators.

Player	Bracelets	Span (Years)	Bracelets per Span-Year
Benny Glaser	9	11	0.82
Shaun Deeb	8	10	0.80
Calvin Anderson	7	12	0.58
Michael Mizrachi	8	15	0.53
Phil Hellmuth	17	34	0.50
Johnny Chan	10	20	0.50
Johnny Moss	9	18	0.50
Brian Rast	7	14	0.50

The modern era dominates the top of this ranking. Players whose first bracelet came in 2008 or later (such as Glaser, Deeb, Anderson, Mizrachi, Schulman, Rast and Seiver) are all inside the top eighteen on the main leaderboard despite shorter windows. The most likely explanation is structural: the WSOP calendar they played on had many more events than the one Moss and Brunson began on, a point we examine next.

How the WSOP Schedule Changed the Bracelet Math

The number of bracelets available each year has expanded dramatically, and that matters for comparing generations. According to the Wikipedia World Series of Poker entry, the series was founded in 1970 in Las Vegas by Benny Binion with a single event decided through cash games. The schedule then grew as follows.

Year	Events
1970	1 (cash games)
1990	15
2000	25
2019	81 live + 9 online
2024	99 live + 37 online
2025	100 live + 30 online
2026	100 live + 30 online

In 1990, a player had 15 bracelet events to win. By 2026 there are 130 across live and online. Hellmuth's first bracelet in 1989 and Brunson's ten between 1976 and 2005 were earned against a far thinner calendar, which makes older totals more impressive in per-event terms even if modern players have more chances in absolute terms. PokerNews adds that WSOP Europe, online series in Nevada, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ontario, and WSOP Paradise in the Bahamas all now award bracelets.

Expansion Timeline

The same source gives the milestones for expansion: WSOP Europe began in 2007, WSOP Asia-Pacific in 2013, and an online series in 2020. Ownership has also shifted: Binion's Horseshoe ran the series from 1970 to 2004, Harrah's Entertainment (later Caesars Entertainment) from 2004 to 2020, Caesars alone from 2020 to 2024, and NSUS Group, the operator of GGPoker, from 2024 onward. Each new venue is another place for bracelet totals to grow.

The Main Event: Field Size and Prize Pool Data

The Main Event is only one bracelet among many, but it has the largest prize pools. The buy-in was $5,000 in 1971 and has been $10,000 since 1972, after the 1970 event used an invitational format. Field-size benchmarks from the same Wikipedia entry:

• 2006: 8,773 entrants, with a $12 million first prize.
• 2023: 10,043 entrants, with a $12.1 million first prize.
• 2024: 10,112 entrants and a total prize pool of $94,041,600.

For context, 10,112 entries at $10,000 is $101,120,000 in gross buy-ins. The reported prize pool of $94,041,600 is about 7% lower (derived), which is consistent with a portion of buy-ins going to fees rather than the pool. For a deeper look at champions and pools, see our companion piece on WSOP Main Event winners and prize pools.

Records: Youngest, Oldest, and Physical Bracelet Facts

PokerNews records two age extremes: the oldest bracelet winner is Farhintaj Bonyadi, who won a Super Seniors event in 2018 at age 83, and the youngest is Annette Obrestad, who won the 2007 WSOP Europe Main Event at age 18. Obrestad is one of several women, alongside Liv Boeree and Vanessa Selbst, with bracelets.

The physical object has its own numbers. PokerNews describes bracelets as 10-karat yellow gold with a typical value of around $1,500 for ordinary events (Main Event bracelets are worth far more), approximately nine inches long. PokerListings cites a modern bracelet as roughly 445 grams of 10-karat gold with 2,253 gemstones, including 1,948 diamonds. The two descriptions apply to different tiers of bracelet design and should not be read as contradicting each other.

What the Numbers Suggest

Three patterns stand out. First, concentration is extreme: the top player has 17, but only five players reach ten, and only eighteen reach seven. Second, longevity matters, since Hellmuth, Seidel and Brunson all have career spans of 29 years or more. Third, the calendar is a hidden variable. With 130 events in 2026, the pool of bracelets is many times what it was in Hellmuth's early years, and modern accumulators such as Glaser, Deeb and Schulman have reached eight or nine bracelets in roughly 10 to 17 years.

If you want to understand the strategy behind those results, our guides on GTO versus exploitative play and our poker strategy hub cover the fundamentals, and the equity calculator lets you test the pot-odds math that bracelet winners rely on. New to the game entirely? Start with poker for beginners, and browse the poker glossary for terms used on this page.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who has the most WSOP bracelets of all time?

Phil Hellmuth, with 17 bracelets won between 1989 and 2023, according to both PokerNews and the Wikipedia compilation current to 10 June 2026.

Who has the second-most WSOP bracelets?

Phil Ivey is second with 11 bracelets, won between 2000 and 2024. Seven of his 11 came in non-Hold'em games, per PokerListings.

How many WSOP events award bracelets each year?

The 2026 schedule includes 100 live and 30 online events, the same as 2025. In 2019 it was 81 live and 9 online; in 1990 there were 15 events in total.

What is a WSOP bracelet made of?

PokerNews describes bracelets as 10-karat yellow gold. PokerListings cites a modern design of about 445 grams with 2,253 gemstones, including 1,948 diamonds.

Who is the youngest and oldest WSOP bracelet winner?

Annette Obrestad was 18 when she won the 2007 WSOP Europe Main Event, the youngest on record. Farhintaj Bonyadi was 83 when she won the 2018 Super Seniors event, the oldest.

Sources

• Wikipedia: World Series of Poker multiple bracelet winners (data as of 10 June 2026)
• PokerNews: WSOP Bracelets, All Your Questions Answered
• PokerListings: Who Won the Most WSOP Bracelets? (as of July 24, 2026)
• Wikipedia: World Series of Poker
• WSOP.com: All-Time Bracelet Winners

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