Foxen Family Scores Second Trophy Of The 2025 U.S. Poker Open

The 2025 U.S. Poker Open has been incredibly profitable for the Foxen family.

After Kristen Foxen hoisted a USPO Trophy earlier in the series, her husband and fellow high-stakes pro Alex Foxen took home a trophy of his own. He topped an 81-entry field in a $15,100 no-limit hold ’em event to net $340,200.

Wednesday’s victory was the 30th of Foxen’s career, which includes three World Series of Poker bracelets and now nine PokerGO Tour titles. He sits in 15th place on poker’s all-time money list.

The win came just a day after he finished fifth in a $15,000 no-limit hold ‘em for $102,900. Between Kristen’s win in the series’ first event for $158,025 and Alex’s pair of final tables, poker’s predominant power couple took home north of $600,000 this series.

For the last eight years, Alex has finished in the top 20 of the Card Player Player of the Year race. In fact, from 2018-2024, the 34-year-old finished no worse than ninth. He’s on pace for another solid finish, sitting in third this year.

The 81 entries in the penultimate event of the series generated a $1.215 million prize pool, with the top 12 finishers getting a piece of it. Four-time WSOP bracelet winner David Peters (12th), DoorDash co-founder Stanley Tang (11th), Brandon Wilson (10th) and Sam Laskowitz (8th) were among those who made the money but failed to survive the first day.

Day 2 began with seven players remaining and Foxen out in front. It didn’t take long for short-stack Cherish Andrews to get all-in. The recent Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown $25,000 high roller winner got the last of her chips in with A-K suited, only to run into the pocket aces of Nick Seward. John Riordan was also involved with A-6 suited, which became the nut flush draw on the turn. Andrew needed a non-heart ten on the end to make a straight in order to survive, but the river double-paired the board instead and Seward bet Riordan out before rolling over the winning hand. Andrews took home $48,600 as the seventh-place finisher.

Despite coming into day 2 as the second-largest stack, David Coleman was ultimately the next to fall. His final hand pitted him against the only player with more chips than him: Foxen. The action began with Foxen min-raising to 100,000 from the cutoff with KK. Coleman defended his big blind with J8 suited and checked the K92 flop. Foxen continuation bet small with top set, firing 70,000. Coleman check-raised to 280,000 and Foxen flat-called. The turn brought the 10 to give Coleman a flush draw and open-ended straight draw. He checked and Foxen bet 280,000. Coleman check-raised all-in for 1,620,000 total and Foxen snap-called. The river was the J and Coleman’s draws bricked out to end his run in sixth place ($60,750). The score pushed him past $9.6 million in lifetime earnings.

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

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— PokerGO (@PokerGO) April 16, 2025

Justin Zaki was ground down to just four big blinds before he took a stand with K-9 suited. Foxen quickly called with K-Q from the big blind and held through a king-high runout that kept his superior kicker in play. Zaki headed to the payout desk to collect $85,050 for his fifth-place showing. The Floridian poker pro now has career cashes in excess of $6.6 million.

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

There were plenty of swings during three-handed play. Neil Warren eventually jumped out to a big lead ahead of the next elimination. Riordan’s stack had shrunk to just a handful of big blinds. He committed all but one chip preflop with K9 and then got all-in on a J72 flop. Warren and called from the big blind and made second pair with 107. He called and held through the Q turn and A river to send Riordan packing in third place ($157,950). He is now approaching $5.3 million in career cashes.

Warren took 8,350,000 into heads-up play with Foxen, who held 1,775,000. An early double for Foxen closed the gap considerably. He then won a big pot without showdown to edge into the lead. He began to pull away, only for Warren to double up. Foxen was still well out in front when the final hand of the tournament was dealt. Warren limped from the button with A10 and called all-in for six big blinds when Foxen shoved with J9. The board came down 9758Qto give Foxen a winning pair of nines. Warren earned $218,700 as the runner-up, the largest tournament score yet for the self-described ‘startup CTO turned big law patent litigator turned investor.’

Crushing the game! @WAFoxen wins his 9th 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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