Who is the poker player with the most bracelets in WSOP history? – AS USA

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is the biggest event for players of the game, drawing thousands of participants from all over the planet.

The most serious of them play not only for the considerable amount of money at stake, but also for the gold bracelets that are awarded to the best competitors.

The WSOP started the tradition of handing out these bracelets to event winners in 1976, and these wearable trophies have only gained prestige since then. Receiving one has been said to be the equivalent of winning the Stanley Cup in hockey or the Lombardi Trophy in football.

The person who has collected the biggest number of bracelets is Phil Hellmuth, who is considered the best tournament player in history. He has won 16 of them, with a victory in each of the last five decades, starting in 1989.

The 57-year-old last received the prize in 2021, when he won the $1,500 No Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw which earned him almost $85,000. The most prize money that a bracelet has ever brought him was a little over a million euros, which he won in 2012 for the 10,450 No Limit Holdem Main Event.

The players who are closest to Hellmuths tally are quite some distance behind with ten bracelets each- Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, and Phil Ivey. Johnny Moss and Erik Seidel are next with nine apiece, followed by Billy Baxter and Men Nguyen, who both have seven.

Nguyen of Vietnam is the only non-American on this particular list of elite poker players.

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Who is the poker player with the most bracelets in WSOP history? - AS USA