Kristen Foxen Wins PokerGO Tour Kickoff Series $10k Finale for Second Straight Year

Kristen Foxen received the $10,100 PokerGO Tour (PGT) Kickoff Sequence finale for the second consecutive 12 months on Saturday, and it paid $197,625.

The just about sure future Poker Corridor of Famer dominated a ultimate desk that included Jeremy Ausmus, Andrew Moreno, and 4 different high-stakes crushers.

Intense Poker Motion at Ultimate Desk

Foxen ran over the ultimate desk, but it surely wasn’t all clean crusing. She started Saturday’s Day 2 session on the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas with greater than double some other stack. It took the Canadian poker star little time to spin it up even additional.

Neil Warren was the primary to bust on the ultimate desk in seventh place for $37,200. Nick Seward then went out in sixth place for $46,500. Foxen was in agency management of the 93-player event at that time, holding roughly 60-percent of all chips in play with 5 gamers remaining.

Ultimate Desk Outcomes

However the cruise management was placed on maintain for a bit when she moved all in with 3♥3♣ and obtained calls from the a lot smaller-stacked Moreno and his A♣Okay♠ and the A♥9♥ Joao Simao held. The board would run out 7♥4♣7♦4♦9♠, giving Simao almost a triple-up on a river unhealthy beat. That despatched Moreno dwelling in fifth place, which paid $65,100.

Foxen remained out in entrance, and he or she’d once more improve her lead when she known as a three-bet in opposition to Ausmus with ace-high versus king-high. Each gamers checked it all the way down to the river the place Foxen hit a straight and put her opponent, who had left himself lower than half a giant blind, all in. Ausmus folded and was then eradicated on the next hand in fourth place for $83,700.

Foxen would lose one other all in on the brief facet of a 60/40 to Simao, who doubled again to solely trailing 2-1 in chips. Simao would then win a race to bust Track in third place ($111,600) and had managed to barely seize the chip lead when heads-up play started. The heads-up foes agreed to evenly chop the remaining prize pool, every participant amassing $197,625.

The eventual champion shortly regained a small chip benefit earlier than the largest hand of the event befell. Simao raised on the button to 700,000 with A♠10♥ and obtained a name from 9♣7♥. Motion would choose up on the 7♥4♠3♥ flop when Simao checked, then check-raised from 550,000 to 1,700,000 with ace-high. However he was up in opposition to prime pair, and could not persuade his opponent to fold.

The 8♣ appeared on the flip and each gamers checked, and that card was adopted by the 8♥ on the river, which paired the board and introduced introduced in a possible flush. Simao, nonetheless with ace-high, moved all in for 4,025,000. However the bluff did not get by way of as Foxen made the powerful however right name to finish the event for the second straight 12 months. Simao needed to accept a second place end.

Foxen, who finished 13th within the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Predominant Occasion, now has over $9 million in reside event cashes, in line with The Hendon Mob. Vanessa Selbst, with $11.9 million in earnings, is the one girl in historical past to have that determine beat.

The PokerGO Tour’s opening five-event collection has reached its conclusion. 5 completely different gamers all captured titles, together with Andrew Lichtenberger, Patrick Leonard, Masato Yokosawa, Spencer Champlin, and Foxen.

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