Kristen Foxen Claims Top Spot On Women’s All-Time Money List With PokerGO Cup Poker Tournament Win

Kristen Foxen is now the highest-earning feminine event poker participant in historical past.

The 38-year-old Canadian skilled surpassed longtime ladies’s cash listing chief Vanessa Selbst because of her win within the penultimate occasion of the 2025 PokerGO Cup, which got here with $348,300 in prize cash.

With $11,077,811 in profession earnings, Foxen now has a $178,784 lead over Selbst, who has not cashed in a poker event in practically 5 years. The former poker professional introduced her retirement from full-time play in 2018, and has since transitioned right into a profession within the monetary sector.

Foxen and Selbst are the one two feminine gamers to have accrued eight figures in poker event earnings. The next-highest earner is Kathy Liebert with $7,129,540.

Foxen already held a key poker report, together with her 5 World Series of Poker gold bracelets being essentially the most of any feminine participant. Last yr Foxen additionally practically turned the primary girl to make the primary occasion ultimate desk since Barbara Enright positioned fifth in 1995, however in the end was eradicated in thirteenth place for a career-best payday of $600,000.

This title got here with loads of rankings factors. The 576 Card Player Player of the Year factors Foxen secured moved her into seventh place within the 2025 POY standings introduced by Global Poker. This was her second title and third final-table of the yr, having additionally gained the ultimate occasion of the PokerGO Tour Kickoff collection. Her two PGT wins and 6 qualifying cashes make her the outright chief on the tour’s season-long leaderboard with 857 factors.

A complete of 86 entries had been made on this $15,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion, making for a $1,290,000 prize pool. The prime 13 finishers cashed, with simply seven contenders shifting on to the second and ultimate day of motion contained in the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino Las Vegas. Ten-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel held the chip result in begin, whereas Foxen got here in because the shortest stack.

Eric Wasserson was the primary to be eradicated. He was floor right down to just some huge blinds through the early motion and finally known as all-in with 4-2 suited from the massive blind going through a small-blind shove from Farid Jattin. The bracelet winner earned $51,600 because the seventh-place finisher.

Six-handed play lasted for about an hour, with loads of gamers getting brief solely to bounce again. Foxen started her surge up the chip counts with pocket kings holding in opposition to the pocket jacks of Jattin. Not lengthy after doubling in that pot, she moved into first place within the chip counts.

Eventually, the stalemate was damaged four-time bracelet winner David Peters took a stand in opposition to Foxen, who had been making use of loads of strain after shifting into the lead. Foxen opened for 1,700,000 from underneath the gun with A4, basically an all-in transfer. Peters had the wager lined by 225,000 and moved all-in with AQ from the cutoff. Foxen known as the rest and was in tough form preflop, however shortly turned the tables when the flop got here down 854. The 2 flip left Peters in want of a queen to win or a 3 to cut. Instead one other 4 got here on the top, the 4, to enhance Foxen to journeys. Peters headed house with $64,500 for his efforts. This rating grew his lifetime haul to just about $51.1 million.

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Sergio Aido was not as lucky when his A4 squared off in opposition to the AQ of Foxen. Aido shoved his final 9 huge blinds from underneath the gun and Foxen known as from the small blind. Aido picked up the nut flush draw and a gutshot straight draw by the flip, with 10658 on board. None of his 14 outs appeared on the river, although, because the 9 as a substitute locked up one other knockout for Foxen.

Aido, who gained occasion no. 5 at this collection simply days earlier, cashed for $90,300 because the fifth-place finisher. The bracelet winner from Spain now has practically $22 million in complete cashes underneath his belt.

Seidel’s run on this occasion got here to an finish when his pocket queens had been cracked by the A-J of Jattin. Seidel shoved from the cutoff for 7 huge blinds and Jattin known as from the button, having Seidel lined by a single huge blind. An ace within the window left Seidel in want of a queen or working golf equipment. He discovered no additional assistance on the flip or river, although, and was eradicated in fourth place ($116,100).

The Poker Hall of Famer is approaching $48.7 million in lifetime earnings, with 428 recorded in-the-money finishes spanning way back to 1988.

Despite scoring that knockout, Jattin was in the end the subsequent to be eradicated. He three-bet shoved for round 11 huge blinds from the massive blind with OkQ going through a button min-raise from Foxen, who known as with AQ. The board got here down AJ95Ok to ship Jattin packing in third place ($161,250). The Colombian all-time cash chief now has $9,992,730 in profession earnings underneath his belt.

Heads-up play started with Foxen holding a 4:1 chip lead over bracelet winner and CoinPoker ambassador Patrick Leonard. The lead had grown barely bigger by the point the ultimate hand was dealt. Foxen shoved from the button for 12 huge blinds efficient with OkJ and Leonard shortly known as with A9. The 1044QJ runout gave her a successful pair of jacks on the river to lock up the pot, the title, and the highest spot on the ladies’s cash listing.

Leonard took house $225,750 because the runner-up, rising his recorded earnings to greater than $4.7 million. This close to win got here simply shy of a month after he earned his first PGT title by taking down occasion no. 2 of the PGT Kickoff collection. The British poker professional has already cashed 5 occasions this yr, all in PGT tournaments. With 1,307 POY factors, he’s now ranked twentieth within the total standings. Leonard has additionally climbed to fourth on the PGT season-long leaderboard.

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