Kristen Foxen already sat atop the ladies’s all-time cash checklist and the leaderboard for essentially the most World Series of Poker bracelets received by a feminine participant. Now, with the biggest win of her profession, the 39-year-old Canadian poker professional is lapping the sphere.
On Sunday, June 7, she took down the 2026 WSOP $25,000 no-limit maintain’em eight-max occasion for her sixth WSOP bracelet and a brand new prime payday of $1,773,083. She now has twice as many bracelets as another girl within the recreation, with Vanessa Selbst, Barbara Enright, and Nani Dollison tied for second with three every. Her $20,729,755 in lifetime earnings on the circuit additionally offers her roughly a $9.8 million lead over Selbst, who can be ranked second on the ladies’s cash checklist with over $10.9 million in cashes.
This rating topped the $1,449,000 Foxen earned for a fourth-place end in a $100,000 buy-in at Triton Jeju this spring to develop into her new largest payout. She now has 4 seven-figure cashes, having additionally positioned third in a $125,000 Triton Jeju occasion final fall and second in a $50,000 Triton Montenegro occasion this spring for $1,039,000.
Foxen’s First Live Bracelet Win In A Decade
“Honestly, it’s so surreal… I was thinking, ‘When was the last time I won a bracelet in person?’ And I don’t think I’ve won one in real life since we’ve been together,” Foxen instructed WSOP’s Jeff Platt, gesturing to her husband and fellow poker professional Alex Foxen, a three-time bracelet winner in his personal proper.
“It really means a lot, especially as a $25,000 [buy-in]. This was a tough field, a tough final table,” she continued. Foxen was then offered along with her newest piece of WSOP {hardware} by her husband, who was on the rail to witness the triumph.
Foxen first broke by means of on the sequence in 2013, successful the women championship for her debut bracelet. Three years later, she took down her first open occasion with a win in a $1,500 bounty event. Her subsequent three bracelets all got here on-line. She took down a $2,500 six-max occasion in 2020, an $888 loopy eights occasion in 2023, and a $1,000 six-max in 2024. All six of her WSOP titles have are available no-limit maintain’em tournaments.
Kristen Foxen has completed it once more!
After 4 grueling days towards one of many hardest fields of the summer season, Foxen outlasted 345 entries within the $25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em, defeating Galen Hall heads-up to win her sixth WSOP gold bracelet and $1,773,083.
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Rankings Points Galore
In addition to the {hardware} and the title, Foxen additionally earned 1,680 Card Player Player of the Year factors for the win. This was her second title and eighth final-table end of 2026. With 5,017 complete factors and greater than $5.2 million in to-date POY earnings, she now sits in second place within the general POY standings offered by CoinPoker.
This victory additionally got here with 750 PokerGO Tour factors. Foxen has cashed seven occasions in PGT-qualified occasions. Her earlier win this yr noticed her take down a $10,000 occasion on the U.S. Poker Open for $198,000.
With 1,258 complete PGT factors, Foxen now sits simply 13 factors behind present season-long race chief Brock Wilson on the high-stakes-centric tour’s leaderboard.
Last Day Kicks Off With Hall Leading The Final Half-Dozen
The prime 52 finishers earned a share of the $5,804,500 prize pool on this occasion, with massive names aplenty among the many checklist of those that cashed. Stephen Chidwick (twenty eighth), Brock Wilson (twenty seventh), Samuel Mullur (twenty sixth), Aliaksei Boika (twenty third), ‘Turbo’ Nguyen (twenty second), Philip Sternheimer (nineteenth), Nick Schulman (18th), Shannon Shorr (seventeenth), Eric Wasserson (fifteenth), Brian Rast (14th), Jesse Lonis (thirteenth), Thomas Muehloecker (tenth), and Barak Wisbrod (ninth) had been among the many notables who ran deep.
Bracelet winner and PokerStars Caribbean Adventure champion Galen Hall got here into the ultimate day of this high-stakes affair with the lead, with Foxen in second chip place when playing cards obtained within the air.
Zdenek Zizka was the primary to fall underneath the intense lights of the mothership stage inside Paris Las Vegas. The Czech bracelet winner earned $300,942 because the sixth-place finisher. Zizka’s A♥10♥ misplaced out towards the A♠2♣ of Hall after the chips went in on a Q♠10♠4♠ flop. The longtime backgammon star known as off his final 10 or so massive blinds with center pair main his opponent’s flush draw, however the 6♠ spades left him drawing useless. Zizka now has over $3 million in recorded poker scores to his identify.
A basic preflop race spelled the tip of Ignacio Moron Chavero’s run on this occasion. He jammed from the small blind with A♠10♦ and Foxen known as the 18-blind shove from the massive blind with 8♠8♣. The board got here down J♦9♣3♠2♣J♠ and the pocket pair held as much as ship Moron Chavero packing in fifth place. The $413,389 payout was the biggest but for the Spanish participant.
Cutting The Field In Half
The subsequent knockout of the day was additionally because of a battle of the blinds. Bracelet winner Joey Weissman was all the way down to his final 12 massive blinds when he seemed down at Okay♥8♣ within the small blind. He moved all-in and acquired a name from Ding Biao, who barely had him coated. Ding held Okay♠Q♥. The board got here down J♠10♦4♥9♥3♣ and Weissman settled for $577,326 because the fourth-place finisher. This was the second-largest rating of his event profession, trailing solely the $694,609 that got here along with his bracelet win in a 2012 WSOP $2,500 no-limit maintain’em occasion.
Ding’s momentum was quickly halted when he misplaced a wholesome pot with two pair towards the straight of Hall. Ding wager his rivered tens up on the tip and known as Hall’s elevate to fall again all the way down to round 12 massive blinds. He had a very good likelihood to double up with a pair of aces and an eight kicker main the identical pair and 7 kicker of Hall with one card to come back. The river put a pair of deuces on board, giving each gamers aces up with a queen kicker for a chop.
Ding ultimately obtained his final 10 massive blinds in with Okay♥7♠ from the small blind. Foxen known as with A♥8♦ from the massive blind and the 2 noticed a flop of Okay♦J♦2♦. While Ding flopped prime pair, he needed to fade diamonds and aces with two playing cards to come back. The 9♣ flip was protected for him, however the 3♦ on the tip ended his event in third place ($819,504). The three-time Triton Poker winner surpassed $22.6 million in earnings because of this rating.
A Swingy Heads-Up Clash
With that, Foxen took a slight lead into heads-up play with Hall. The first massive conflict went Hall’s means, because the river gave him the nut flush whereas additionally enhancing Foxen to kings up. She known as a smaller worth wager on the tip to ship the hefty pot Hall’s means.
Foxen bounced again when her Okay♣J♠ outflopped the pocket threes of Hall. She regained the benefit there and commenced to drag away earlier than Hall received a number of pots to stabilize. He then surged again into the highest spot when he took down a large pot on a 8♥8♦3♣J♥7♦ board with 8♣2♥. His river worth wager went uncalled, however with loads of motion earlier than that, the pot was nonetheless enough to place him again in entrance.
The tables turned but once more when a straight-over-straight cooler earned Foxen a full double-up. Hall raised to 1,400,000 from the button with 10♣7♠ and Foxen known as the 800,000 extra with Q♠10♥ from the massive blind. The J♥8♣3♥ flop gave each gamers gutshot straight attracts hinging on a 9. Foxen checked and Hall fired 3,000,000 along with his decrease straight draw. She known as and the 9♥ rolled off on the flip to fill each gutshots. Foxen wager 3,400,000 and Hall known as. The river introduced the 4♣ and Foxen moved all-in for 10,650,000. Hall known as and fell under 23 massive blinds.
On the very subsequent hand, Foxen picked up A♥A♦ on the button and limped for 600,000 complete. Hall jammed with A♣4♦ and Foxen snap-called. The Okay♦9♣8♦5♥2♣ runout modified nothing and Hall was eradicated in second place, incomes $1,182,050 for the second-largest payday of his profession.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Payout | POY Points | PGT Points |
| 1 | Kristen Foxen | $1,773,083 | 1,680 | 750 |
| 2 | Galen Hall | $1,182,050 | 1400 | 700 |
| 3 | Ding Biao | $819,504 | 1,120 | 492 |
| 4 | Joey Weissman | $577,326 | 840 | 346 |
| 5 | Ignacio Moron Chavero | $413,389 | 700 | 248 |
| 6 | Zdenek Zizka | $300,942 | 560 | 181 |
| 7 | Ihar Soika | $222,798 | 420 | 134 |
| 8 | Giuseppe Calio | $167,792 | 280 | 101 |
Photo credit score: WSOP/ Lennart Hennig
