Red-Hot Alex Foxen Triumphs At U.S. Poker Open

Alex Foxen has completed inside the highest twenty within the closing Card Player Player of the Year standings every of the previous eight years. In reality, from 2018-24, he has positioned no decrease than ninth. The 34-year-old poker professional is again at it once more in 2025, with a present rating of third within the POY standings thanks to a few titles and eight final-table finishes up to now this yr.

Foxen’s newest victory noticed him beat out a subject of 81 entries within the penultimate occasion of the U.S. Poker Open. He earned $340,200 and 576 POY factors for the win within the $15,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em match, rising his lifetime haul to $47.7 million within the course of. As a consequence, he at the moment sits in fifteenth place on poker’s all-time cash listing.

This was the three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner’s thirtieth recorded match title, and his ninth general win in a PokerGO Tour occasion. He shot into third place within the USPO sequence factors race due to this triumph.

The high 12 finishers earned a share of the $1,215,000 prize pool on this occasion, with four-time bracelet winner David Peters (twelfth), DoorDash co-founder Stanley Tang (eleventh), occasion no. 6 champion Brandon Wilson (tenth), and Sam Laskowitz (eighth) amongst those who made the cash solely to hit the rail late on day 1.

Day 2 started with seven gamers remaining and Foxen out in entrance. It didn’t take lengthy for short-stack Cherish Andrews to get all-in. The latest Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown $25,000 excessive curler winner bought the final of her chips in with A-Okay suited, solely to run into the pocket aces of Nick Seward. John Riordan was additionally concerned with A-6 suited, which turned the nut flush draw on the flip. Andrew wanted a non-heart ten on the top to make a straight as a way to survive, however the river double-paired the board as a substitute and Seward guess Riordan out earlier than rolling over the successful hand. Andrews took residence $48,600 because the seventh-place finisher.

Despite coming into day 2 because the second-largest stack, David Coleman was finally the subsequent to fall. His closing hand pitted him towards the one participant with extra chips than him: Foxen. The motion started with Foxen min-raising to 100,000 from the cutoff with OkayOkay. Coleman defended his large blind with J8 suited and checked the Okay92 flop. Foxen continuation guess small with high set, firing 70,000. Coleman check-raised to 280,000 and Foxen flat-called. The flip introduced the ten to provide Coleman a flush draw and open-ended straight draw. He checked and Foxen guess 280,000. Coleman check-raised all-in for 1,620,000 complete and Foxen snap-called. The river was the J and Coleman’s attracts bricked out to finish his run in sixth place ($60,750). The rating pushed him previous $9.6 million in lifetime earnings.

Running into it! David Coleman goes for the double check-raise towards @WAFoxen.

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Justin Zaki was floor down to simply 4 large blinds earlier than he took a stand with Okay-9 suited. Foxen rapidly known as with Okay-Q from the massive blind and held by means of a king-high runout that stored his superior kicker in play. Zaki headed to the payout desk to gather $85,050 for his fifth-place exhibiting. The Floridian poker professional now has profession cashes in extra of $6.6 million.

Bracelet winner Nick Seward was bounced in fourth place ($115,425) when his A-9 bumped into the pocket jacks of Foxen, who had slipped out of the lead briefly after shedding a preflop race to two-time bracelet winner John Riordan. Foxen light a flopped open-ender for Seward to pull the pot and regain the highest spot within the chip counts. Seward’s lifetime earnings grew to over $2.5 million with this newest deep run.

There have been loads of swings throughout three-handed play. Neil Warren ultimately jumped out to a giant lead forward of the subsequent elimination. Riordan’s stack had shrunk to only a handful of massive blinds. He dedicated all however one chip preflop with Okay9 after which bought all-in on a J72 flop. Warren and known as from the massive blind and made second pair with 107. He known as and held by means of the Q flip and A river to ship Riordan packing in third place ($157,950). He is now approaching $5.3 million in profession cashes.

Warren took 8,350,000 into heads-up play with Foxen, who held 1,775,000. An early double for Foxen closed the hole significantly. He then received a giant pot with out showdown to edge into the lead. He started to tug away, just for Warren to double up. Foxen was nonetheless nicely out in entrance when the ultimate hand of the match was dealt. Warren limped from the button with A10 and known as all-in for six large blinds when Foxen shoved with J9. The board got here down 9758Qto provide Foxen a successful pair of nines. Warren earned $218,700 because the runner-up, the most important match rating but for the self-described ‘startup CTO turned big law patent litigator turned investor.’

Crushing the sport! @WAFoxen wins his ninth PGT title in Event #7 of the U.S. Poker Open for $340,200!

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— PokerGO (@PokerGO) April 17, 2025

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