Whenever the top two stacks get their chips in the middle at a final table, you know something unusually wild has just happened.
That’s precisely what happened with six players left at the final table of the $15,000 no-limit hold’em, the seventh event of the 2025 U.S. Poker Open. Alex Foxen and 2024 GPI Player of the Year David Coleman got into an incredible tangle that stunned the poker world.
With the blinds at 25,000-50,000 and a 50,000 big blind ante, the super-aggressive Foxen was the chip leader with about 3.9 million. He raised to 100,000 from the cutoff with K
K
, and Coleman, who was second in chips with 2.05 million, defended his big blind with J
8.
The flop came K
92, which gave Foxen top set.
Coleman checked and Foxen bet 70,000. The smaller size can sometimes induce a raise, which was the option Coleman chose. He check-rasied to 280,000, and Foxen called. According to the Card Player Poker Odds calculator, Foxen was a 94% favorite on the flop.
The turn was the 10, a dream or nightmare card for Coleman, depending on how you look at it. It gave him a flush draw and an open-ended straight draw, which sent Coleman’s odds soaring from 6% to 30%.
Coleman checked, and Foxen rather quickly bet 33% of the pot, putting another 280,000 into the middle. After about 30 seconds, Coleman put in the double-check raise in the form of a jam and Foxen snap-called to create a massive 4,075,000-chip pot.
The river was the J, sending an incredibly disappointed Coleman home in 6th place for $60,750. Meanwhile, Foxen skyrocketed to over 6 million, roughly 60% of the chips in play, five times his closest competitor.
Foxen would end up shipping the event for $340,200 and his ninth-career PGT title. You can see the whole hand below:
Running into it! David Coleman goes for the double check-raise against @WAFoxen.
https://t.co/YcMI4fJrWw pic.twitter.com/UkPaHhsoIM
— PokerGO (@PokerGO) April 16, 2025
