Alex Foxen is having an unbelievable yr on the stay match circuit. The 33-year-old American poker professional has made 20 Card Participant Participant of the Yr-qualified ultimate tables and received three titles to this point in 2024. Foxen seems to have saved the very best for final, as he took down the World Sequence of Poker Paradise $100,000 buy-in Triton no-limit maintain’em major occasion for his third profession gold bracelet within the ultimate month of the yr. Foxen topped a area of 182 entries within the nosebleed-stakes match, including to his {hardware} assortment whereas rising his profession earnings by $3,850,000.
This was the second-largest match payday but for Foxen, whose lifetime haul on the match circuit now sits at greater than $43.1 million. He’s simply the 18th participant within the historical past of the sport to surpass $40 million in profession cashes. He now sits in fifteenth place on poker’s all-time cash listing.
Whereas this was the third general WSOP bracelet win for Foxen, it was his second of the yr. He received the WSOP On-line pot-limit Omaha $500 thriller bounty six-max occasion earlier this fall. His first bracelet got here again in 2022, when he received the $250,000 buy-in occasion in Las Vegas for his career-best rating of $4,563,700.
Foxen’s spouse Kristen additionally received a bracelet this yr, extending her document with 5 in complete secured over her profession.
This was Foxen’s second Triton victory of 2024, having received a $50,000 buy-in occasion on the current Triton Monte Carlo cease for practically $1.5 million.
“Bracelets have all the time been a barometer of success for lots of poker gamers, so meaning rather a lot to me. I really feel like Triton has advanced to the purpose the place these trophies have a significance, like that, as properly,” stated Foxen in his post-win interview on the Triton stay stream.
This was the second multi-million-dollar money of the sequence for Foxen, who additionally completed sixth within the $500,000 Triton Million occasion just some days earlier than taking down this match, incomes $2,795,000. He now has 4 multi-million-dollar scores. Along with the three which have already been talked about, he additionally completed second within the 2018 Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl for $2,160,000.
The champion of this occasion earned 1,680 POY factors, which had been sufficient to maneuver Foxen into fifth place within the 2024 standings sponsored by International Poker.
The massive turnout for this occasion, which ran from Dec. 10-12 at Atlantis Paradise Island within the Bahamas, resulted in an $18,200,000 prize pool. The highest 31 finishers made the cash, with superstars like three-time bracelet winner Justin Bonomo (twenty second), ten-time Triton champion Jason Koon (sixteenth), five-time Triton winner Mikita Badziakouski (twelfth), and two-time POY award winner Stephen Chidwick (eleventh) all working deep.
Current Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl IX and Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl Pot-Restrict Omaha champion Seth Davies was the primary to fall on the ultimate desk (ninth – $393,000). He was left on fumes after shedding an enormous pot, and obtained the final of his stack in with A-J main the J-6 suited of two-time bracelet winner Fedor Holz. The German all-time cash chief ($49.1 million) flopped a six and held from there to slender the sector to eight.
First Casualty within the Triton 100k Foremost EventCrownUpGuy</a> opens the Button for 2M || <a href=”https://twitter.com/Sdavies22?ref_src=twsrcpercent5Etfw”>Sdavies22 calls together with his reamining 450k
Davies is in fine condition with A J dominating Holz’s J 6
Flop comes Q 3 6 and Holz takes the lead !
Flip J and River 10 weren’t the… pic.twitter.com/6a2WO4xZyY
— Triton Poker (@tritonpoker) December 12, 2024
Bracelet winner and 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Journey major occasion champion Dimitar Danchev (eighth – $475,000) was the following to fall, shedding a preflop race with A-Ok in opposition to the pocket sevens of Austrian bracelet winner Samuel Mullur.
That coin flip gave to Mullur, however the subsequent took away the remainder of his stack. His A
Ok
was unable to outrun the JJ
of Foxen, who surged up the leaderboard whereas Mullur headed to the payout desk to gather $650,500 for his seventh-place displaying. The 2023 WSOP Paradise $25,000 buy-in champion now has greater than $5.2 million in profession earnings to his title.
David Coleman misplaced an enormous all-in together with his A-Ok being outdrawn by the A-10 of three-time bracelet winner Joao Vieira after all of the chips went in preflop. Coleman was left on fumes and was quickly eradicated in sixth place, incomes a career-best rating of $890,000. This was the twenty fourth final-table end of 2024 for Coleman, who has received 5 POY-qualified titles alongside the best way. The 560 factors he locked up with this efficiency grew his complete to 9,698, which is sweet for second place within the standings. He now trails POY chief Adrian Mateos by simply 476 factors.
Finland’s Ossi Ketola bowed out in fifth place ($1,172,000) when his Ok10 bumped into the A10
of Foxen. Neither participant improved and Ketola was despatched house together with his second profession seven-figure payday. He earned his first simply shy of a month earlier, when he completed second within the $150,000 buy-in occasion on the Triton Monte Carlo cease for $2,970,000.
Alexander Zubov’s final chips obtained in preflop with AOk up in opposition to 55 for Vieira. The pocket pair held up and Zubov was eradicated in fourth place ($1,482,000). This was the primary rating over 1,000,000 {dollars} for the Russian participant.
Holz was on the fallacious finish of an enormous conflict with Foxen early in three-handed play. In his ultimate hand he defended his huge blind with A5 going through a button min-raise to 1,000,000 from Foxen, who held Ok8. the flop got here down A84 and Holz check-celled a 825,000 continuation wager together with his prime pair. Foxen improved to kings up on the flip and fired once more when checked to, sizing as much as 3,300,000. Holz referred to as and the 6 accomplished the board. Holz checked but once more and Foxen shoved. Holz mulled over the spot for a bit earlier than making the decision to complete third for $1,830,000. This his thirteenth seven-figure rating on the circuit.
Foxen held 33,000,000 to Vieira’s 12,500,000 when heads-up play started. The decisive pot of the match arrived pretty rapidly. Lower than 1 / 4 of an hour after the ultimate showdown started, Foxen picked up 83 on the button and limped in for 500,000 complete. Vieira raised to 1,600,000 with 108 from the massive blind and Foxen referred to as. The flop got here down A63 and Vieira led out for 900,000 with air. Foxen referred to as with backside pair and the 9 hit the flip. Vieira sized up, firing 3,800,000 together with his gutshot. Foxen referred to as once more and the Ok accomplished the board. Vieira wager 7,000,000 as a bluff, leaving himself simply 275,000 behind. Foxen thought it over for some time earlier than making the hero name with backside pair to take a large lead.
@WAFoxen… What!? Not even his soul was spared… pic.twitter.com/VVfjKOQpYN
— Triton Poker (@tritonpoker) December 13, 2024
Vieira managed one double up, however was quickly compelled all-in once more with Q3 trailing AOk for Foxen. The board ran out J6566 and Vieira was eradicated in second place ($2,590,000). This was a brand new career-best for the Portuguese professional, who now has greater than $14 million in recorded cashes to his title.
Here’s a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the ultimate desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Alex Foxen
$3,850,000
1680
2
Joao Vieira
$2,590,000
1400
3
Fedor Holz
$1,830,000
1120
4
Alexander Zubov
$1,482,000
840
5
Ossi Ketola
$1,172,000
700
6
David Coleman
$890,000
560
7
Samuel Mullur
$650,500
420
8
Dimitar Danchev
$475,000
280
9
Seth Davies
$393,000
140
Picture credit score: Triton Poker / Drew Amato.
