Alex Foxen’s Luck Turns With Runner-Runner Beat at WPT Global Slam Final Table

With the inaugural Triton ONE pageant, it is time to elevate the stakes right here on South Korea’s Jeju Island with the Triton Tremendous Excessive Curler Sequence Jeju II, a run of tournaments with buy-ins starting from $25,000 to $150,000.

Triton Tremendous Excessive Curler Sequence Jeju II, operating Sept. 9-23, kicked off with the $25,000 WPT World Slam, an occasion that drew 199 gamers for a prize pool of $7,775,000. The title went to American James Mendoza as he collected simply his second Triton money and a career-best rating of $1,515,000.

In the meantime, high-stakes crusher Alex Foxen was on the lookout for a fourth Triton title after a sizzling run on Day 2 that noticed him cracking kings twice to enter the ultimate desk with the chip lead, however his luck turned on Day 3 as he bumped into aces earlier than Mendoza made a runner-runner straight to finish Foxen’s run in third place for $721,600.

China’s Xue Music completed runner-up for $962,000, whereas the ultimate desk additionally included France’s Emilien Pitavy (4th – $584,000), Russia’s Viacheslav Goryachev (fifth – $460,000) and Thailand’s Punnat Punsri (ninth – $155,000), who earlier this week completed runner-up within the Triton ONE Predominant Occasion for $1,205,775.

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Foxen’s Luck Activates Day 3

Foxen had a sizzling run on Day 2 that noticed him getting into the ultimate desk nicely in entrance, however his luck modified early on the ultimate desk in a cooler that noticed him runner ace-king into the Pocket Rockets of Emilien Pitavy, who had reached the ultimate desk because the brief stack.

Foxen’s misfortune continued from there because the occasion received down with three gamers as he received ace-jack in towards the king-six of Mendoza. An ace-high flop seemed prefer it may seal the deal for the all-in Foxen, however a seven on the flip gave Mendoza an open-ended straight draw earlier than a 4 river sealed his destiny.

Foxen was on the lookout for his fourth Triton title and so as to add to his $12.7 million in Triton earnings. The third-place end adopted a less-than-ideal week in Jeju for the high-stakes crusher, whose solely money had been in a 137th-place end within the $3,000 QQPK Genesis for $5,140.

But when Foxen, who made a daring bluff within the Triton ONE Predominant Occasion that was seemed up by opponent Alisson Piekazewicz, struggled to get into kind within the extra middling occasions provided on the first Triton ONE pageant, do not anticipate that to be the case through the Tremendous Excessive Curler sequence the place he shall be absolutely in his ingredient.

In the meantime, Kristen Foxen had a powerful exhibiting at Triton ONE with a podium end within the $10,000 NLH Thriller Bounty for $116,000.

The unhealthy beats on the ultimate desk continued into heads-up play as Xue Music had queens cracked by Mendoza’s ace-eight, who spiked an ace on the flop earlier than hitting one other one on the river for good measure.

Day 2 of the WPT World Slam noticed Bryn Kenney trying to lengthen his all-time cash lead, however his run ended the day as he completed in tenth place for $130,000.

Individuals have been well-represented within the WPT World Slam, with Michael Wang incomes a Sixteenth-place end as he misplaced a flip with ace-ten towards the pocket sixes of Kenney.

Day 3 kicked off on Thursday at 1 p.m. native time with the dwell stream motion going dwell at 2 p.m. The streamed ultimate desk included commentary from acclaimed commentators Randy Lew and Ali Nejad.

Take a look at the highlights for your self on the Triton stream.

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Connor Richards is a Senior Editor U.S. for PokerNews and host of the Life Outdoors Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for 3 World Poker Awards for his writing.