Alex Foxen – Photo Credit: Triton Super High Roller Series
The sizzling streak continues for Alex Foxen, who notched his first profession Triton title this week to deliver his totals to just about $35 million. That’s good for twenty second on the all-time cash checklist.
Foxen took down the $50,000 buy-in eight-max no-limit occasion, banking $1.47 million. He additionally earned 1,224 Card Player Player of the Year factors, vaulting him into eighth place. Foxen has completed inside the highest 10 for the final six years, and is trying to make it seven in a row with a robust end to 2024.
The win comes on the heels of his second WSOP bracelet, which he gained within the on-line sequence in a $500 thriller bounty PLO occasion. Foxen additionally took second within the WSOP Europe €25,000 buy-in excessive curler and made three remaining tables on the latest PokerGO Tour PLO sequence.
“The tournament went really smooth for me,” Foxen mentioned afterwards. “I used to be actually lucky for lots of the time. Everything simply felt proper. I used to be feeling assured and excited.”
The match noticed 147 entries within the area that created a complete prize pool price $7.35 million due to the big buy-in. The high 23 gamers secured a min-cash price $85,000. Notables that made the cash on the way in which to the ultimate desk included a number of gamers with eight-figures in profession earnings equivalent to Juan Pardo (eleventh), Daniel Dvoress (thirteenth), Webster Lim (14th), Christoph Vogelsang (fifteenth), Danny Tang (18th), Santhosh Suvarna (twentieth), David Yan (twenty second), and Ben Heath (twenty third).
When motion obtained all the way down to the ultimate desk it was certainly Foxen who held the chip lead. Lun Loon fell shortly in eighth place, after which seven-handed motion took some time earlier than Quan Zhou hit the rail. All the whereas Foxen saved wielding an unstoppable chip stack.
Kiat Lee was out subsequent in sixth place, and Liang Xu adopted in fifth place. Although he wasn’t scoring the knockouts, Foxen nonetheless sat on the high. The remaining 4 gamers then selected a chop of the ultimate prize cash with an extra $170,000 up high and the trophy remaining to play for between them.
That’s when Foxen obtained lively in eliminating his opponents, taking out Dominykas Mikolaitis in fourth and Marius Kudzmanas in third place. Kudzmanas was showing at his second remaining desk of the sequence only a couple days after taking sixth within the $30,000 occasion for $231,000. With the $922,000 he pocketed on this occasion, he now has $1.5 million in earnings, practically all of which has come since this summer season.
The consecutive eliminations gave Foxen a greater than 6:1 chip benefit towards Aleksejs Ponakovs at first of the ultimate match.
Ponakovs was capable of double up as soon as, however the second time he risked all of his chips issues didn’t go as effectively. Ponakovs was all in with A-7 preflop, and he was forward of the Ok-J of Foxen, however a king hit on the flip to deliver the match to an in depth.
Foxen picked up his first Triton trophy, and Ponakovs scored $915,000 after the deal. The Latvian skilled elevated his strong profession earnings to $22.7 million due to the rating.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Payout | POY |
| 1 | Alex Foxen | $1,470,000 | 1,224 |
| 2 | Aleksejs Ponakovs | $915,000 | 1,020 |
| 3 | Marius Kudzmanas | $922,000 | 816 |
| 4 | Dominykas Mikolaitis | $964,000 | 612 |
| 5 | Liang Xu | $507,000 | 510 |
| 6 | Kiat Lee | $393,000 | 408 |
| 7 | Quan Zhou | $291,000 | 306 |
| 8 | Lun Loon | $214,000 | 204 |
The Triton Super High Roller Poker Series in Monte Carlo remains to be within the early phases, with tournaments working from Nov. 1-14 on the shores of the Mediterranean. Stay tuned to Card Player for recaps all through this marquee match sequence that includes the very best poker gamers on the earth.
