Kristen Foxen won the sixth bracelet of her career, taking down a $25,000 high roller

Kristen Foxen wins her sixth career bracelet, taking down the $25,000 High Roller

Two years ago, Kristen Foxen said she wanted to win a bracelet in a "more serious" field than the $1,000 and $1,500 events she had conquered before. Today the Canadian achieved that goal, beating out 345 opponents in the $25,000 High Roller.
"This is the best field of professionals in the world. I'd never won a big $25K tournament, so this is an amazing feeling. Everything just fell my way. It was a real dream. The feeling that this is exactly where I belong and exactly what I'm meant to do. I'm so grateful that I came to poker and that I'm able to live off of it," Foxen told PokerNews.

On the final day, Galen Hall spent a long time as the chip leader by a huge margin, but heading into the heads-up Foxen managed to overtake him. However, the American started the heads-up aggressively and soon built a 2-to-1 advantage.

The turning point came in the hand that played out the biggest pot of the tournament. Both players made a straight on the turn, but Foxen had the higher one. The Canadian put her last 11 million chips into a 16-million pot, got a call, and grew her stack to 38 million.

And on the very next hand Foxen got it in with pocket aces against Hall's A4, who moved all-in. By the turn the American had no outs left. Kristen Foxen claimed the title and soon received congratulations from her husband Alex Foxen.
"It's such a relief. In situations like this there's always incredible tension. And honestly, for me it wasn't about the money. I really was only thinking about the bracelet and the win. I don't know how long the heads-up lasted, it felt like a long time. I was just thinking, 'God, please, let this fall my way,'" Foxen shared with Poker.org.

Kristen Foxen also set a new lifetime best cash, earning $1,773,083. Over the past year the six-time WSOP champion has now landed a seven-figure score for the fourth time. As a reminder, the Canadian had previously won the live events $1,000 Ladies (2013) and $1,500 Bounty (2016) at the World Series, as well as the online tournaments $2,500 6-Max (2020), $888 Crazy 8's (2023), and $1,000 6-Max (2024).

$25,000 High Roller final table results:
1️⃣ Kristen Foxen 🇨🇦 — $1,773,083
2️⃣ Galen Hall 🇺🇸 — $1,182,050
3️⃣ Biao Ding 🇨🇳 — $819,504
4️⃣ Joey Weissman 🇺🇸 — $577,326
5️⃣ Ignacio Moron 🇪🇸 — $413,389
6️⃣ Zdenek Zizka 🇨🇿 — $300,942
7️⃣ Igor Soyka 🇧🇾 — $222,798
8️⃣ Giuseppe Caglio 🇦🇷 — $167,792