Kristen Foxen is already regarded by galore arsenic the champion pistillate poker subordinate successful the world. She added to her awesome resume connected Sunday.
The nonrecreational poker subordinate primitively from St. Catherines, Ontario, won the $25,000 buy-in High Roller No-limit Hold’em lawsuit astatine the World Series of Poker and the $1.77 cardinal archetypal prize.
It is Foxen’s sixth vocation bracelet, which are awarded for tourney victories, the astir by a pistillate subordinate successful history. No different pistillate has much than three.
“Honestly, it’s truthful surreal,” Foxen said connected the WSOP watercourse pursuing her victory. “It truly means a lot, particularly the $25K. This was a pugnacious field, a pugnacious last table. Obviously I ran incredibly well, arsenic immoderate victor of a tourney does. But this 1 means truthful much.”
Foxen, who is champion known for her deep tally successful the 2024 WSOP Main Event erstwhile she finished successful 13th place, outlasted a tract of 345 entries to go the archetypal pistillate to triumph a unrecorded unfastened lawsuit astatine the WSOP since 2021. She defeated poker pro Galen Hall heads-up for her archetypal bracelet since an online Pot-limit Omaha lawsuit successful 2024.
At the last table, Foxen entered 2nd successful chips with six players remaining and knocked retired China’s Biao Ding successful 3rd spot and Ignacio Moron of Spain successful 5th to instrumentality a flimsy spot pb into heads-up play against Hall.
The 2 pros traded the pb earlier Foxen took control, winning a monolithic cookware with a queen-high consecutive against Hall’s jack-high straight.
The Turn That Changed Everything!
Heads-up successful the WSOP $25K High Roller, Kristen Foxen and Galen Hall some amended to a consecutive connected the crook successful a monolithic pot. With $1.7 cardinal up apical and a bracelet connected the line, neither subordinate is looking to backmost down arsenic 1 of the biggest hands… pic.twitter.com/dAoGDmQTns
— WSOP - World Series of Poker (@WSOP) June 8, 2026
On the adjacent hand, Foxen was dealt pouch aces and called Hall’s all-in pre-flop bet. Hall was incapable to amended his ace-four holding, locking up the triumph for Foxen earlier the last paper was adjacent revealed.
Hall pocketed much than $1.18 cardinal for his runner-up finish.
“Heads-up is ever truthful tense,” Foxen said. “It started disconnected for him and past it benignant of went my mode … and past conscionable 2 hands. Obviously I coolered him beauteous hard.”
Foxen is 1 of 27 players each clip with six oregon much WSOP bracelets. She earned the largest currency of her vocation and her 4th seven-figure people since September, bringing her unrecorded tourney net to implicit $18.9 million, according to the Hendon Mob Poker Database.
She was presented her bracelet by hubby Alex Foxen, a three-time WSOP champion.
“My poker travel has been benignant of absorbing the past fewer years,” Kristen Foxen said. “I’ve had immoderate large moments that didn’t spell my way, and successful a mode it’s similar a blessing due to the fact that it’s similar the worst lawsuit happened.
“I conscionable learned to spell successful with a much relaxed cognition and person amusive astir of all.”
Japanese pro goes back-to-back
Naoya Kihara of Japan became the archetypal two-time victor astatine this year’s WSOP erstwhile helium took down the $10,000 buy-in Seven-Card Stud Championship precocious Sunday.
Kihara defeated James Cheung successful heads-up play to seizure the $301,970 archetypal prize.
The triumph came 3 days aft Kihara won the $10,000 buy-in No-limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship and makes him the sixth subordinate successful past to triumph back-to-back title events, according to PokerNews.
Kihara present has 3 vocation bracelets, astir each clip among Japanese players, and is 2nd successful the WSOP Player of the Year standings down Shaun Deeb.
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