Red-Hot Alex Foxen Triumphs At U.S. Poker Open

The 2025 U.S. Poker Open has been extremely worthwhile for the Foxen household.

After Kristen Foxen hoisted a USPO Trophy earlier within the sequence, her husband and fellow high-stakes professional Alex Foxen took house a trophy of his personal. He topped an 81-entry subject in a $15,100 no-limit maintain ’em occasion to web $340,200.

Wednesday’s victory was the thirtieth of Foxen’s profession, which incorporates three World Collection of Poker bracelets and now 9 PokerGO Tour titles. He sits in fifteenth place on poker’s all-time cash record.

The win got here only a day after he completed fifth in a $15,000 no-limit maintain ‘em for $102,900. Between Kristen’s win within the sequence’ first occasion for $158,025 and Alex’s pair of ultimate tables, poker’s predominant energy couple took house north of $600,000 this sequence.

For the final eight years, Alex has completed within the prime 20 of the Card Participant Participant of the 12 months race. The truth is, from 2018-2024, the 34-year-old completed no worse than ninth. He’s on tempo for an additional strong end, sitting in third this 12 months.

The 81 entries within the penultimate occasion of the sequence generated a $1.215 million prize pool, with the highest 12 finishers getting a bit of it. 4-time WSOP bracelet winner David Peters (twelfth), DoorDash co-founder Stanley Tang (eleventh), Brandon Wilson (tenth) and Sam Laskowitz (eighth) had been amongst those that made the cash however didn’t survive the primary day.

Day 2 started with seven gamers remaining and Foxen out in entrance. It didn’t take lengthy for short-stack Cherish Andrews to get all-in. The current Seminole Exhausting Rock Poker Showdown $25,000 excessive curler winner bought the final of her chips in with A-Okay suited, solely to run into the pocket aces of Nick Seward. John Riordan was additionally concerned with A-6 suited, which turned the nut flush draw on the flip. Andrew wanted a non-heart ten on the tip to make a straight so as to survive, however the river double-paired the board as an alternative and Seward wager Riordan out earlier than rolling over the profitable hand. Andrews took house $48,600 because the seventh-place finisher.

Regardless of coming into day 2 because the second-largest stack, David Coleman was in the end the following to fall. His remaining hand pitted him towards the one participant with extra chips than him: Foxen. The motion started with Foxen min-raising to 100,000 from the cutoff with OkayOkay. Coleman defended his large blind with J8 suited and checked the Okay92 flop. Foxen continuation wager small with prime set, firing 70,000. Coleman check-raised to 280,000 and Foxen flat-called. The flip introduced the ten to offer Coleman a flush draw and open-ended straight draw. He checked and Foxen wager 280,000. Coleman check-raised all-in for 1,620,000 whole and Foxen snap-called. The river was the J and Coleman’s attracts bricked out to finish his run in sixth place ($60,750). The rating pushed him previous $9.6 million in lifetime earnings.

Operating into it! David Coleman goes for the double check-raise towards @WAFoxen.

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— PokerGO (@PokerGO) April 16, 2025

Justin Zaki was floor down to simply 4 large blinds earlier than he took a stand with Okay-9 suited. Foxen rapidly referred to as with Okay-Q from the large blind and held by a king-high runout that stored his superior kicker in play. Zaki headed to the payout desk to gather $85,050 for his fifth-place displaying. The Floridian poker professional now has profession cashes in extra of $6.6 million.

Bracelet winner Nick Seward was bounced in fourth place ($115,425) when his A-9 bumped into the pocket jacks of Foxen, who had slipped out of the lead briefly after dropping a preflop race to two-time bracelet winner John Riordan. Foxen pale a flopped open-ender for Seward to tug the pot and regain the highest spot within the chip counts. Seward’s lifetime earnings grew to over $2.5 million with this newest deep run.

There have been loads of swings throughout three-handed play. Neil Warren ultimately jumped out to a giant lead forward of the following elimination. Riordan’s stack had shrunk to only a handful of huge blinds. He dedicated all however one chip preflop with Okay9 after which bought all-in on a J72 flop. Warren and referred to as from the large blind and made second pair with 107. He referred to as and held by the Q flip and A river to ship Riordan packing in third place ($157,950). He’s now approaching $5.3 million in profession cashes.

Warren took 8,350,000 into heads-up play with Foxen, who held 1,775,000. An early double for Foxen closed the hole significantly. He then received a giant pot with out showdown to edge into the lead. He started to drag away, just for Warren to double up. Foxen was nonetheless nicely out in entrance when the ultimate hand of the event was dealt. Warren limped from the button with A10 and referred to as all-in for six large blinds when Foxen shoved with J9. The board got here down 9758Qto offer Foxen a profitable pair of nines. Warren earned $218,700 because the runner-up, the most important event rating but for the self-described ‘startup CTO turned large legislation patent litigator turned investor.’

Crushing the sport! @WAFoxen wins his ninth PGT title in Occasion #7 of the U.S. Poker Open for $340,200!

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— PokerGO (@PokerGO) April 17, 2025