One of many larger storylines that emerged because the World Sequence of Poker Predominant Occasion churned to its conclusion was whether or not or not a lady would break the 29-year streak and make the ultimate desk. With 18 gamers left, the percentages of that taking place regarded fairly good as one of many higher event gamers at the moment working, Kristen Foxen, began Day 8 fifth in chips.
Foxen (nee Bicknell) was 8-years-old when Barbara Enright completed fifth within the Predominant Occasion, and since then solely three ladies have gotten as shut as potential by ending tenth: Susie Isaacs in 1998, Annie Duke in 2000, and Gaelle Baumann in 2012.
However with due respect to these gamers, this yr felt totally different just because Foxen was the lady with all of the chips. This can be a participant who couldn’t solely make the ultimate desk, however has the ability, data and demeanor to win the entire rattling factor. In any case, Foxen, who turns 38 in December, has a group of accolades and wins that any participant — male or feminine — would take delight in.
A four-time International Poker Index Feminine Participant of the Yr (2017,2018, 2019 and 2023) who will probably hit the $10 million mark in lifetime event cashes earlier than she hits 40, she is a poker junkie who referred to as herself the “final grinder” after hitting Supernova Elite standing on PokerStars in 2011, 2012 and 2013 by taking part in greater than 2.5 million fingers in every of these years.
That have constructed a basis that gained her 4 World Sequence of Poker bracelets, the primary coming in 2013 when she turned the Women Occasion champ. However she additionally has loads of success in open and high-roller occasions, together with a victory in January in a $10,000 PokerGO Tour occasion for $165,000.
She additionally scored wins on the World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Basic, the Aria Summer time Excessive Rollers sequence, the European Poker Tour in Monte Carlo, the Asia Pacific Poker Tour excessive curler sequence in Macau, and the Poker Masters, the place she gained a $25,000 buy-in occasion for $408,000 — her largest money up till Sunday.
Foxen completed thirteenth within the Predominant Occasion after operating her large stack into Joe Serock’s flopped two pair in a hand that shall be talked about for an extended whereas. Right here it’s.
And with that, the final girl standing within the 2024 WSOP Predominant Occasion needed to take the lengthy stroll away from the function desk, questioning what would have been if she didn’t play her second pair so aggressively. Foxen cashed $600,000 for her deep run, however was disenchanted within the consequence.
“THANK YOU from the underside of my coronary heart to everybody who was cheering me on all through the Predominant Occasion!” she wrote on X. “It was a really disappointing end; I actually wished that bracelet, and I performed my coronary heart out. Very grateful for the chance to play in such a monumental event.”
She outlasted extra gamers than any ladies in Predominant Occasion historical past, a document that ought to stand till she (or another proficient girl) breaks the barrier and makes the ultimate 9.
Her deep run is much more spectacular figuring out that she did it within the largest Predominant Occasion in historical past. The poker star outlasted 10,099 gamers, a overwhelming majority who’re males, once more displaying the poker world she deserves mentioning when speaking concerning the nice gamers at the moment competing.
