Alex Foxen is having an incredible year on the live tournament circuit. The 33-year-old American poker pro has made 20 Card Player Player of the Year-qualified final tables and won three titles so far in 2024. Foxen appears to have saved the best for last, as he took down the World Series of Poker Paradise $100,000 buy-in Triton no-limit hold’em main event for his third career gold bracelet in the final month of the year. Foxen topped a field of 182 entries in the nosebleed-stakes tournament, adding to his hardware collection while growing his career earnings by $3,850,000.
This was the second-largest tournament payday yet for Foxen, whose lifetime haul on the tournament circuit now sits at more than $43.1 million. He is just the 18th player in the history of the game to surpass $40 million in career cashes. He now sits in 15th place on poker’s all-time money list.
While this was the third overall WSOP bracelet win for Foxen, it was his second of the year. He won the WSOP Online pot-limit Omaha $500 mystery bounty six-max event earlier this fall. His first bracelet came back in 2022, when he won the $250,000 buy-in event in Las Vegas for his career-best score of $4,563,700.
Foxen’s wife Kristen also won a bracelet this year, extending her record with five in total secured over her career.
This was Foxen’s second Triton victory of 2024, having won a $50,000 buy-in event at the recent Triton Monte Carlo stop for nearly $1.5 million.
“Bracelets have always been a barometer of success for a lot of poker players, so that means a lot to me. I feel like Triton has evolved to the point where these trophies have a significance, like that, as well," said Foxen in his post-win interview on the Triton live stream.
This was the second multi-million-dollar cash of the series for Foxen, who also finished sixth in the $500,000 Triton Million event just a few days before taking down this tournament, earning $2,795,000. He now has four multi-million-dollar scores. In addition to the three that have already been mentioned, he also finished second in the 2018 Super High Roller Bowl for $2,160,000.
The champion of this event earned 1,680 POY points, which were enough to move Foxen into fifth place in the 2024 standings sponsored by Global Poker.
The huge turnout for this event, which ran from Dec. 10-12 at Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas, resulted in an $18,200,000 prize pool. The top 31 finishers made the money, with superstars like three-time bracelet winner Justin Bonomo (22nd), ten-time Triton champion Jason Koon (16th), five-time Triton winner Mikita Badziakouski (12th), and two-time POY award winner Stephen Chidwick (11th) all running deep.
Recent Super High Roller Bowl IX and Super High Roller Bowl Pot-Limit Omaha champion Seth Davies was the first to fall at the final table (9th – $393,000). He was left on fumes after losing a big pot, and got the last of his stack in with A-J leading the J-6 suited of two-time bracelet winner Fedor Holz. The German all-time money leader ($49.1 million) flopped a six and held from there to narrow the field to eight.
First Casualty in the Triton 100k Main Event
CrownUpGuy</a> opens the Button for 2M || <a href="https://twitter.com/Sdavies22?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">Sdavies22 calls with his reamining 450k
Davies is in good shape with A J dominating Holz's J 6
Flop comes Q 3 6 and Holz takes the lead !
Turn J and River 10 weren't the… pic.twitter.com/6a2WO4xZyY— Triton Poker (@tritonpoker) December 12, 2024
Bracelet winner and 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event champion Dimitar Danchev (8th – $475,000) was the next to fall, losing a preflop race with A-K against the pocket sevens of Austrian bracelet winner Samuel Mullur.
That coin flip gave to Mullur, but the next took away the rest of his stack. His A
K
was unable to outrun the JJ
of Foxen, who surged up the leaderboard while Mullur headed to the payout desk to collect $650,500 for his seventh-place showing. The 2023 WSOP Paradise $25,000 buy-in champion now has more than $5.2 million in career earnings to his name.
David Coleman lost a big all-in with his A-K being outdrawn by the A-10 of three-time bracelet winner Joao Vieira after all the chips went in preflop. Coleman was left on fumes and was soon eliminated in sixth place, earning a career-best score of $890,000. This was the 24th final-table finish of 2024 for Coleman, who has won five POY-qualified titles along the way. The 560 points he locked up with this performance grew his total to 9,698, which is good for second place in the standings. He now trails POY leader Adrian Mateos by just 476 points.
Finland’s Ossi Ketola bowed out in fifth place ($1,172,000) when his K10 ran into the A10
of Foxen. Neither player improved and Ketola was sent home with his second career seven-figure payday. He earned his first just shy of a month earlier, when he finished second in the $150,000 buy-in event at the Triton Monte Carlo stop for $2,970,000.
Alexander Zubov’s last chips got in preflop with AK up against 55 for Vieira. The pocket pair held up and Zubov was eliminated in fourth place ($1,482,000). This was the first score over a million dollars for the Russian player.
Holz was on the wrong end of a big clash with Foxen early in three-handed play. In his final hand he defended his big blind with A5 facing a button min-raise to 1,000,000 from Foxen, who held K8. the flop came down A84 and Holz check-celled a 825,000 continuation bet with his top pair. Foxen improved to kings up on the turn and fired again when checked to, sizing up to 3,300,000. Holz called and the 6 completed the board. Holz checked yet again and Foxen shoved. Holz mulled over the spot for a bit before making the call to finish third for $1,830,000. This his 13th seven-figure score on the circuit.
Foxen held 33,000,000 to Vieira’s 12,500,000 when heads-up play began. The decisive pot of the match arrived fairly quickly. Less than a quarter of an hour after the final showdown began, Foxen picked up 83 on the button and limped in for 500,000 total. Vieira raised to 1,600,000 with 108 from the big blind and Foxen called. The flop came down A63 and Vieira led out for 900,000 with air. Foxen called with bottom pair and the 9 hit the turn. Vieira sized up, firing 3,800,000 with his gutshot. Foxen called again and the K completed the board. Vieira bet 7,000,000 as a bluff, leaving himself just 275,000 behind. Foxen thought it over for a while before making the hero call with bottom pair to take a massive lead.
@WAFoxen… What!? Not even his soul was spared… pic.twitter.com/VVfjKOQpYN
— Triton Poker (@tritonpoker) December 13, 2024
Vieira managed one double up, but was soon forced all-in again with Q3 trailing AK for Foxen. The board ran out J6566 and Vieira was eliminated in second place ($2,590,000). This was a new career-best for the Portuguese pro, who now has more than $14 million in recorded cashes to his name.
Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Alex Foxen | $3,850,000 | 1680 |
| 2 | Joao Vieira | $2,590,000 | 1400 |
| 3 | Fedor Holz | $1,830,000 | 1120 |
| 4 | Alexander Zubov | $1,482,000 | 840 |
| 5 | Ossi Ketola | $1,172,000 | 700 |
| 6 | David Coleman | $890,000 | 560 |
| 7 | Samuel Mullur | $650,500 | 420 |
| 8 | Dimitar Danchev | $475,000 | 280 |
| 9 | Seth Davies | $393,000 | 140 |
Photo credit: Triton Poker / Drew Amato.
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