Kristen Foxen received greater than 1,000,000 {dollars} in a poker event for the primary time in her lengthy and profitable profession, and it was sufficient to nudge her in entrance of Vanessa Selbts for the highest spot on the all-time cash checklist for ladies gamers.
A third-place end within the $125,000 (+$6,250) Triton Poker Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection Jeju II was good for $1.1 million — a half-million greater than her earlier better of $600,000 she received for ending thirteenth on the 2024 World Collection of Poker primary Occasion.
The money put her on prime of Hendon Mob’s Girls All-Time Cash Checklist with $12,183,462, simply $245,504 in entrance of the mostly-retired-from-poker Selbts. She’s the primary girl in poker to hit the $12 million event money mark.
Her million-dollar win was her fourth money in a Triton tourney in Jeju this month. She added one other third-place in $10,000 Thriller Bounty occasion the primary week of September, which was good for $116,000.
The 38 year-old Canadian, who was elected to the Girls in Poker Corridor of Fame final yr, has had an excellent two years on the high-roller event path, successful three PokerGo Tour occasions in 2025 alone grabbing her first one final yr.
The $125,000 (+$6,250) Triton Poker Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection Jeju II occasion had 43 of the world greatest excessive rollers enter, who additionally added one other 23 re-entries to spice up the value pool to $8,625,000. The highest 11 made the cash. Issac Haxton (eleventh for $216,000), Tom Fuchs (tenth for $216,000), Santhosh Suvarna (ninth for $246,000), and Jesse Lonis (eighth for $323,000) have been the gamers who missed the ultimate desk of seven on this seven-handed occasion.
The highest three gamers cashed at the very least 1,000,000. After Foxen was bounced in third, Stephen Chidwick and Michael Watson made an ICM deal that put $203,624 on prime, plus the title.
Watson received his fifth Triton title by hitting a straight flush on the river to disclaim the superb Chidwick. The $2,130,812 was the 40 year-old Canadian’s greatest lifetime money and his first within the $2 million neighborhood and was his sixth time he received $1 million or extra in poker event. He joins Phil Ivey and Punnat Punsri as five-time Triton holders, and the win strikes him into the twenty fifth place on the Hendon Mob’s All Time Cash Checklist.
This was Chidwick’s sixteenth seven-figure money — and his second this month alone after successful the $208,000 buy-in Quick Deck Maintain’em contest on Sept. 12, for $3,455,000, which was his second-highest profession money, behind the $5,368,947 he received in a $1 million buy-in occasion on the Triton Poker Tremendous Excessive Curler Collection London in 2019.
With $73,713,730 in whole lifetime winnings, he presently sits in second-place on the All Time Cash checklist, 5 million {dollars} behind Bryn Kenney.
Foxen is 129th on that checklist.
