Alex Foxen Wins PokerGO Tour Pot-Limit Omaha Series $15,000 Event

Alex Foxen has surpassed $47.1 million in career poker tournament earnings, which is good for 15th place on poker’s all-time money list. The three-time bracelet winner’s latest win on the circuit saw him best a field of 70 entries in event no. 7 at the 2025 PokerGO Tour Pot-Limit Omaha Series.

Foxen secured $315,000 as the champion of this $15,000 buy-in PLO affair. This was his eighth PGT title, and the 29th overall recorded victory of his career.

The 504 Card Player Player of the Year points that accompanied this triumph were enough to catapult him inside the top 20 in the 2025 POY rankings presented by Global Poker. This was the first title and fourth final-table finish of the year for the 34-year-old poker pro. With two final tables and three cashes at this series, Foxen also moved into the lead in the series-long points race, with 449 total PGT points accumulated thus far.

The strong turnout for this event resulted in a $1,050,000 prize pool, with 10 players making the money. Ben Tollerene (10th), Nick Schulman (9th), Bryce Yockey (8th), Arthur Morris (7th), and Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero (6th) hit the rail late on day 1 after the bubble burst inside the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino Las Vegas.

The final day began with five players remaining and Foxen out in front. Sean Rafael, fresh off of a runner-up showing in the previous event, was the first to fall on the final day of this tournament. He ran pocket kings into the pocket aces of two-time bracelet winner Jesse Lonis to be left on fumes. He was eliminated shortly after that, earning $78,750 as the fifth-place finisher.

Six-time bracelet winner Josh Arieh was the short stack heading into four-handed action, but he found a quick double up with pocket aces against the pocket kings of Artem Maksimov. He flopped a full house to move into a virtual tie with Lonis for second chip position. Soon after that, he won a sizable pot off of Foxen to overtake the outright lead.

Maksimov got the last of his stack in on a J32 flop with AQQ3 trailing the A833 of Lonis, who had flopped middle set. The turn brought the 6 to give Maksimov the nut flush draw, and while the J completed that draw, it also gave Lonis the winning full house. Maksimov walked away with $105,000 as the fourth-place finisher. This was the third-largest live tournament score of his career.

Game changer! @JesseLonis flops a set to snatch the chip lead. Artem Maximoff hits the rail in 4th.

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Lonis edged into the lead after taking down that pot, but there was plenty of movement around the leaderboard for all the remaining three contenders before the next knockout took place. Foxen had doubled up with pocket kings against the A-J-10-3 double suited of Arieh to seize the chip lead, leaving Arieh as the short stack in the process.

Soon after that, Arieh got all-in with AKQ4 facing the 101093 of Lonis after a flop of QJ5. The 10 river improved Arieh to a straight, but it also gave Lonis a set to go with his flush draw. The 5 paired the board to give Lonis tens full for the win, ending Arieh’s run in third place ($141,750). He now has nearly $14.1 million in career scores to his name.

Lonis took a slight chip lead over Foxen into heads-up play after winning that pot. Foxen won a big pot early, flopping a wrap straight draw before backing into a flush. Foxen held roughly a 3:1 chip lead when the final hand of the tournament was dealt. He limped in from the button with 8843 and Lonis checked his option with Q10107. The flop came down 1052 and Lonis checked his top set. Foxen fired with his flopped flush and straight draws and Lonis unleashed a check-raise. Foxen moved all-in and Lonis called. The turn brought the A to give Foxen a flush and the lead. The 9 river changed nothing and Lonis was eliminated as the runner-up, earning $204,750 for his efforts. He now has nearly $15.3 million in lifetime cashes after this latest deep run.

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