Alex Foxen Wins Third Bracelet and $3.8 Million In World Series of Poker Paradise Triton Main Event

Alex Foxen is having an unimaginable 12 months on the dwell match circuit. The 33-year-old American poker professional has made 20 Card Player Player of the Year-qualified last tables and received three titles to this point in 2024. Foxen seems to have saved the most effective for final, as he took down the World Series of Poker Paradise $100,000 buy-in Triton no-limit maintain’em foremost occasion for his third profession gold bracelet within the last month of the 12 months. Foxen topped a subject of 182 entries within the nosebleed-stakes match, including to his {hardware} assortment whereas rising his profession earnings by $3,850,000.

This was the second-largest match payday but for Foxen, whose lifetime haul on the match circuit now sits at greater than $43.1 million. He is simply the 18th participant within the historical past of the sport to surpass $40 million in profession cashes. He now sits in fifteenth place on poker’s all-time cash listing.

While this was the third general WSOP bracelet win for Foxen, it was his second of the 12 months. He received the WSOP Online pot-limit Omaha $500 thriller bounty six-max occasion earlier this fall. His first bracelet got here again in 2022, when he received the $250,000 buy-in occasion in Las Vegas for his career-best rating of $4,563,700.

Foxen’s spouse Kristen additionally received a bracelet this 12 months, extending her report with 5 in whole secured over her profession.

This was Foxen’s second Triton victory of 2024, having received a $50,000 buy-in occasion on the latest Triton Monte Carlo cease for practically $1.5 million.

“Bracelets have all the time been a barometer of success for lots of poker gamers, so meaning quite a bit to me. I really feel like Triton has advanced to the purpose the place these trophies have a significance, like that, as effectively,” mentioned Foxen in his post-win interview on the Triton dwell stream.

This was the second multi-million-dollar money of the sequence for Foxen, who additionally completed sixth within the $500,000 Triton Million occasion only a few days earlier than taking down this match, incomes $2,795,000. He now has 4 multi-million-dollar scores. In addition to the three which have already been talked about, he additionally completed second within the 2018 Super High Roller Bowl for $2,160,000.

The champion of this occasion earned 1,680 POY factors, which had been sufficient to maneuver Foxen into fifth place within the 2024 standings sponsored by Global Poker.

The big turnout for this occasion, which ran from Dec. 10-12 at Atlantis Paradise Island within the Bahamas, resulted in an $18,200,000 prize pool. The prime 31 finishers made the cash, with superstars like three-time bracelet winner Justin Bonomo (twenty second), ten-time Triton champion Jason Koon (sixteenth), five-time Triton winner Mikita Badziakouski (twelfth), and two-time POY award winner Stephen Chidwick (eleventh) all working deep.

Recent Super High Roller Bowl IX and Super High Roller Bowl Pot-Limit Omaha champion Seth Davies was the primary to fall on the last desk (ninth – $393,000). He was left on fumes after shedding an enormous pot, and received the final of his stack in with A-J main the J-6 suited of two-time bracelet winner Fedor Holz. The German all-time cash chief ($49.1 million) flopped a six and held from there to slim the sector to eight.

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Davies is in fine condition with A J dominating Holz’s J 6

Flop comes Q 3 6 and Holz takes the lead !

Turn J and River 10 weren’t the… pic.twitter.com/6a2WO4xZyY

— Triton Poker (@tritonpoker) December 12, 2024

Bracelet winner and 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure foremost occasion champion Dimitar Danchev (eighth – $475,000) was the following to fall, shedding a preflop race with A-Okay towards the pocket sevens of Austrian bracelet winner Samuel Mullur.

That coin flip gave to Mullur, however the subsequent took away the remaining of his stack. His AOkay was unable to outrun the JJ of Foxen, who surged up the leaderboard whereas Mullur headed to the payout desk to gather $650,500 for his seventh-place displaying. The 2023 WSOP Paradise $25,000 buy-in champion now has greater than $5.2 million in profession earnings to his title.

David Coleman misplaced an enormous all-in together with his A-Okay being outdrawn by the A-10 of three-time bracelet winner Joao Vieira after all of the chips went in preflop. Coleman was left on fumes and was quickly eradicated in sixth place, incomes a career-best rating of $890,000. This was the twenty fourth final-table end of 2024 for Coleman, who has received 5 POY-qualified titles alongside the way in which. The 560 factors he locked up with this efficiency grew his whole to 9,698, which is nice for second place within the standings. He now trails POY chief Adrian Mateos by simply 476 factors.

Finland’s Ossi Ketola bowed out in fifth place ($1,172,000) when his Okay10 bumped into the A10 of Foxen. Neither participant improved and Ketola was despatched house together with his second profession seven-figure payday. He earned his first simply shy of a month earlier, when he completed second within the $150,000 buy-in occasion on the Triton Monte Carlo cease for $2,970,000.

Alexander Zubov’s final chips received in preflop with AOkay up towards 55 for Vieira. The pocket pair held up and Zubov was eradicated in fourth place ($1,482,000). This was the primary rating over 1,000,000 {dollars} for the Russian participant.

Holz was on the mistaken finish of an enormous conflict with Foxen early in three-handed play. In his last hand he defended his massive blind with A5 going through a button min-raise to 1,000,000 from Foxen, who held Okay8. the flop got here down A84 and Holz check-celled a 825,000 continuation wager together with his prime pair. Foxen improved to kings up on the flip and fired once more when checked to, sizing as much as 3,300,000. Holz known as and the 6 accomplished the board. Holz checked but once more and Foxen shoved. Holz mulled over the spot for a bit earlier than making the decision to complete third for $1,830,000. This his thirteenth seven-figure rating on the circuit.

Foxen held 33,000,000 to Vieira’s 12,500,000 when heads-up play started. The decisive pot of the match arrived pretty shortly. Less than 1 / 4 of an hour after the ultimate showdown started, Foxen picked up 83 on the button and limped in for 500,000 whole. Vieira raised to 1,600,000 with 108 from the large blind and Foxen known as. The flop got here down A63 and Vieira led out for 900,000 with air. Foxen known as with backside pair and the 9 hit the flip. Vieira sized up, firing 3,800,000 together with his gutshot. Foxen known as once more and the Okay accomplished the board. Vieira wager 7,000,000 as a bluff, leaving himself simply 275,000 behind. Foxen thought it over for some time earlier than making the hero name with backside pair to take an enormous lead.

@WAFoxen… What!? Not even his soul was spared… pic.twitter.com/VVfjKOQpYN

— Triton Poker (@tritonpoker) December 13, 2024

Vieira managed one double up, however was quickly compelled all-in once more with Q3 trailing AOkay for Foxen. The board ran out J6566 and Vieira was eradicated in second place ($2,590,000). This was a brand new career-best for the Portuguese professional, who now has greater than $14 million in recorded cashes to his title.

Here is a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the last desk:

Photo credit score: Triton Poker / Drew Amato.