Kristen Foxen took down PokerGO Cup Occasion #7:$15,100 No-Restrict Maintain’em for $348,300 on Wednesday. In doing so, she moved into first place on the 2025 PokerGO Tour leaderboard.
The Canadian excessive curler defeated a subject of 86 entrants to assert the most important chunk of the $1,290,000 prize pool. She overcame the smallest stack firstly of the ultimate desk, and finally beat Patrick Leonard heads-up for the title.
From Brief Stack to Champion
Day 1 concluded with Erik Seidel, an 11-time World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner, within the chip lead over Leonard, a web-based poker crusher. Foxen did not get off to a robust begin on the ultimate desk. In actual fact, she misplaced about one-third of her beginning stack by the primary couple of rounds.
However Eric Wasserson dropped to the smallest stack and misplaced his ultimate couple of huge blinds to Farid Jattin, who had taken over the chip lead. Wasserson was out in seventh place for $51,600.
2025 PokerGO Cup Occasion #7 Remaining Desk Outcomes
Foxen’s transfer up the chip counts began with a double-up with AxKx towards Leonard’s AxQx. Sergio Aido, who gained Occasion #5, then took a piece of Seidel’s stack with 9x6x doubling towards Kx3x. However after David Peters went out in sixth place ($64,500), Aido was subsequent out the door in fifth place ($90,300) when Foxen’s superior ace held up.
Seidel then misplaced one other all in preflop hand when he was out in entrance, this time with QxQx towards Jattin’s AxJx after an Ax landed on the flop. That despatched the Poker Corridor of Famer house in fourth place for $116,100.
Foxen had taken over the ultimate desk at that time and had constructed a large chip lead over Jattin and Leonard. However Leonard would double by the chip chief to get again into competition. Jattin then moved all in with KxQx solely to run into Foxen’s AxQx, and one of the best hand-held by the flop, flip, and river.
Jattin’s elimination in third place paid $161,250. Heads-up play started with Foxen holding a 4-1 chip benefit. There could be no comeback. On the ultimate hand, Leonard obtained it all-in with Aâ™ 9â™ towards Okâ™ J♥, however the board ran out 10♥4â™ 4♣Q♦J♦ to finish the match. Foxen acquired $348,300, whereas the runner-up earned $225,750.
The victory was Foxen’s second of the yr on the PokerGO Tour. She took down the $10,100 buy-in PokerGO Tour Kickoff Sequence finale in January for $197,625.
The champ earned her third money in seven occasions in the course of the PokerGO Cup. She additionally moved into first place early within the yr on the PokerGO Tour leaderboard, simply forward of Joey Weissman, who has a slight lead over Eric Blair for the PokerGO Cup total crown.
The collection will wrap on Thursday with the conclusion of Occasion #8: $25,200 No-Restrict Maintain’em, which started on Wednesday.
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