Kristen Foxen Wins Sixth WSOP Bracelet In Event #19

Kristen Foxen added another record to a poker career already ahead of every other woman in WSOP history. The Canadian pro won Event #19: $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed at the 2026 WSOP for $1,773,083, the biggest payout of her career.

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Good to Know

• Kristen Foxen won Event #19 at the 2026 WSOP for her sixth bracelet.
• The $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed event drew 345 entries and built a $5,804,500 prize pool.
• Foxen now has more than $20.7M in recorded live tournament cashes.

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Foxen Extends Her WSOP Record In Las Vegas

Foxen already held the record for most WSOP bracelets by a female player. Now she has six, twice as many as Vanessa Selbst, Barbara Enright and Nani Dollison, who each have three.

The win also pushed her further ahead on the women all time money list. Foxen now has $20,729,755 in career tournament earnings, roughly $9.8M clear of Selbst, who ranks second with more than $10.9M.

The score came in a tough $25,000 buy-in field at Paris and Horseshoe Las Vegas. Foxen had already posted several seven figure results outside the WSOP, including $1,449,000 for fourth in a $100,000 Triton Jeju event this spring, $1,039,000 for second in a $50,000 Triton Montenegro event, and a third place finish in a $125,000 Triton Jeju event last fall.

Yet the bracelet made the moment different. It was her first live WSOP bracelet since 2016, after three online wins in 2020, 2023 and 2024.

“Honestly, it’s so surreal… I was thinking, ‘When was the last time I won a bracelet in person?’ And I don’t think I’ve won one in real life since we’ve been together,” Foxen told WSOP’s Jeff Platt, gesturing to her husband and fellow poker pro Alex Foxen, a three-time bracelet winner in his own right.

“It really means a lot, especially as a $25,000 [buy-in]. This was a tough field, a tough final table,” she continued.

Husband Alex Foxen was on the rail and handed her the bracelet after the win.

Foxen won her first bracelet in the 2013 Ladies Championship. She added an open $1,500 bounty title in 2016, then won online no-limit hold’em bracelets in 2020, 2023 and 2024. All six titles have come in no-limit hold’em.

The final table of Event #19 started with Galen Hall holding the chip lead and Foxen close behind. Zdenek Zizka, Ignacio Moron Chavero and Joey Weissman exited first, before Ding Biao lost a key pot to Hall and later fell to Foxen in third. Heads-up play swung both ways. Hall won the first major pot, Foxen answered back, then doubled through him when both players made a straight and she held the higher one. On the next hand, Foxen picked up pocket aces against Hall’s ace-four and sealed the bracelet.

Final Table Results

Place	Player	Payout
1	Kristen Foxen	$1,773,083
2	Galen Hall	$1,182,050
3	Ding Biao	$819,504
4	Joey Weissman	$577,326
5	Ignacio Moron Chavero	$413,389
6	Zdenek Zizka	$300,942
7	Ihar Soika	$222,798
8	Giuseppe Calio	$167,792

 

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