Kristen Foxen received the $10,100 PokerGO Tour (PGT) Kickoff Sequence finale for the second consecutive 12 months on Saturday, and it paid $197,625.
The virtually sure future Poker Corridor of Famer dominated a remaining desk that included Jeremy Ausmus, Andrew Moreno, and 4 different high-stakes crushers.
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Foxen ran over the ultimate desk, however it wasn’t all clean crusing. She started Saturday’s Day 2 session on the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas with greater than double every other stack. It took the Canadian poker star little time to spin it up even additional.
Neil Warren was the primary to bust on the remaining desk in seventh place for $37,200. Nick Seward then went out in sixth place for $46,500. Foxen was in agency management of the 93-player event at that time, holding roughly 60-percent of all chips in play with 5 gamers remaining.
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However the cruise management was placed on maintain for a bit when she moved all in with 3♥3♣ and obtained calls from the a lot smaller-stacked Moreno and his A♣Okay♠and the A♥9♥ Joao Simao held. The board would run out 7♥4♣7♦4♦9♠, giving Simao practically a triple-up on a river dangerous beat. That despatched Moreno dwelling in fifth place, which paid $65,100.
Foxen remained out in entrance, and she or he’d once more improve her lead when she known as a three-bet towards Ausmus with ace-high versus king-high. Each gamers checked it right down to the river the place Foxen hit a straight and put her opponent, who had left himself lower than half an enormous blind, all in. Ausmus folded and was then eradicated on the next hand in fourth place for $83,700.
Foxen would lose one other all in on the quick aspect of a 60/40 to Simao, who doubled again to solely trailing 2-1 in chips. Simao would then win a race to bust Tune in third place ($111,600) and had managed to barely seize the chip lead when heads-up play started. The heads-up foes agreed to evenly chop the remaining prize pool, every participant accumulating $197,625.
The eventual champion shortly regained a small chip benefit earlier than the largest hand of the event came about. Simao raised on the button to 700,000 with A♠10♥ and obtained a name from 9♣7♥. Motion would decide up on the 7♥4♠3♥ flop when Simao checked, then check-raised from 550,000 to 1,700,000 with ace-high. However he was up towards high pair, and could not persuade his opponent to fold.
The 8♣ appeared on the flip and each gamers checked, and that card was adopted by the 8♥ on the river, which paired the board and introduced introduced in a possible flush. Simao, nonetheless with ace-high, moved all in for 4,025,000. However the bluff did not get by way of as Foxen made the powerful however right name to finish the event for the second straight 12 months. Simao needed to accept a second place end.
Foxen, who completed thirteenth within the 2024 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) Foremost Occasion, now has over $9 million in dwell event cashes, in accordance with The Hendon Mob. Vanessa Selbst, with $11.9 million in earnings, is the one girl in historical past to have that determine beat.
The PokerGO Tour’s opening five-event collection has reached its conclusion. 5 completely different gamers all captured titles, together with Andrew Lichtenberger, Patrick Leonard, Masato Yokosawa, Spencer Champlin, and Foxen.
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