Alex Foxen Continues Hot Streak, Wins Triton Super High RollerFoxen Earns First Triton Title Along With $1.47 Million |
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Alex Foxen – Photo Credit: Triton Super High Roller Series
The hot streak continues for Alex Foxen, who notched his first career Triton title this week to bring his totals to nearly $35 million. That’s good for 22nd on the all-time money list.
Foxen took down the $50,000 buy-in eight-max no-limit event, banking $1.47 million. He also earned 1,224 Card Player Player of the Year points, vaulting him into eighth place. Foxen has finished inside the top 10 for the last six years, and is looking to make it seven in a row with a strong finish to 2024.
The win comes on the heels of his second WSOP bracelet, which he won in the online poker series in a $500 mystery bounty PLO event. Foxen also took second in the WSOP Europe €25,000 buy-in high roller and made three final tables at the recent PokerGO Tour PLO series.
“The tournament went really smooth for me,” Foxen said afterwards. "I was really fortunate for a lot of the time. Everything just felt right. I was feeling confident and excited.”
The tournament saw 147 entries in the field that created a total prize pool worth $7.35 million thanks to the large buy-in. The top 23 players secured a min-cash worth $85,000. Notables that made the money on the way to the final table included multiple players with eight-figures in career earnings such as Juan Pardo (11th), Daniel Dvoress (13th), Webster Lim (14th), Christoph Vogelsang (15th), Danny Tang (18th), Santhosh Suvarna (20th), David Yan (22nd), and Ben Heath (23rd).
When action got down to the final table it was indeed Foxen who held the chip lead. Lun Loon fell quickly in eighth place, and then seven-handed action took a while before Quan Zhou hit the rail. All the while Foxen kept wielding an unstoppable chip stack.
Kiat Lee was out next in sixth place, and Liang Xu followed in fifth place. Although he wasn’t scoring the knockouts, Foxen still sat at the top. The final four players then decided on a chop of the final prize money with an additional $170,000 up top and the trophy remaining to play for between them.
That’s when Foxen got active in eliminating his opponents, taking out Dominykas Mikolaitis in fourth and Marius Kudzmanas in third place. Kudzmanas was appearing at his second final table of the series just a couple days after taking sixth in the $30,000 event for $231,000. With the $922,000 he pocketed in this event, he now has $1.5 million in earnings, nearly all of which has come since this summer.
The consecutive eliminations gave Foxen a better than 6:1 chip advantage against Aleksejs Ponakovs at the start of the final match.
Ponakovs was able to double up once, but the second time he risked all of his chips things didn’t go as well. Ponakovs was all in with A-7 preflop, and he was ahead of the K-J of Foxen, but a king hit on the turn to bring the tournament to a close.
Foxen picked up his first Triton trophy, and Ponakovs scored $915,000 after the deal. The Latvian professional increased his robust career earnings to $22.7 million thanks to the score.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Payout | POY |
| 1 | Alex Foxen | $1,470,000 | 1,224 |
| 2 | Aleksejs Ponakovs | $915,000 | 1,020 |
| 3 | Marius Kudzmanas | $922,000 | 816 |
| 4 | Dominykas Mikolaitis | $964,000 | 612 |
| 5 | Liang Xu | $507,000 | 510 |
| 6 | Kiat Lee | $393,000 | 408 |
| 7 | Quan Zhou | $291,000 | 306 |
| 8 | Lun Loon | $214,000 | 204 |
The Triton Super High Roller Poker Series in Monte Carlo is still in the early stages, with tournaments running from Nov. 1-14 on the shores of the Mediterranean. Stay tuned to Card Player for recaps throughout this marquee tournament series featuring the best poker players in the world.
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