Kristen Foxen Wins Third PokerGO Tour Title of 2025 at the U.S. Poker Open
Kristen Foxen continues to show why she’s one of the world’s toughest poker tournament players with her third win on the PokerGO Tour this year. She won her fourth title in the $5,100 opener at the U.S. Poker Tour series that began April 8. Foxen won $158,025 for winding up with all 129 of the […]
Kristen Foxen continues to show why she’s one of the world’s toughest poker tournament players with her third win on the PokerGO Tour this year. She won her fourth title in the $5,100 opener at the U.S. Poker Tour series that began April 8.
Foxen won $158,025 for winding up with all 129 of the entrant’s chips. It was the third-largest field for a PGT $5,100 event and came only two entries short of last year’s first event field at the U.S. Poker Open. The top 19 took home a piece of the $665,000 prize pool and those who cashed include Eric Blair (17th for $9,675), Erik Seidel (14th for $12,900), and David Baker (11th for $17,737).
Foxen started the year with a runner-up finish in Event #5 at the PGT Last Chance series the first week of January. She booked her first PGT win of the year two weeks later in the fifth event of the Kickoff series for $197,625, and then did it again a month later in Event #7 of the PokerGO Cup, winning another $348,300.
She won her first PGT title at the Kickoff series in 2024.
Place Name Country PGT Points Prize 1st Kristen Foxen Canada 158 $158,025 2nd Ping Liu United States 97 $96,750 3rd Francis Anderson United States 71 $70,950 4th Anthony Hu United States 52 $51,600 5th Michael Arellano United States 39 $38,700 6th David Peters United States 32 $32,250 7th Justin Saliba United States 26 $25,800 8th Masato Yokosawa Japan 26 $25,800 9th Yifu He United States 19 $19,350 10th Patrick Leonard United Kingdom 18 $17,738
Puts her on top
Foxen’s victory gave her 158 PGT points, which made her the first player this season to earn more than 1,000 points. She moved past Chino Rheem to claim the top spot on the PGT season leaderboard. Whoever finishes with the most points is named PGT Player of the Year and receives a $50,000 PGT Passport, which can be used for any PGT event.
Those who finish in the top 40 earn an entry into the season-ending PGT $ 1 million Championship freeroll. The higher a player finishes on the leaderboard, the more chips they start with. Jeremy Ausmus won last year’s Player of the Year by earning 2,966 points in 27 cashes, and he celebrated it by also winning the $1 million freeroll for $500,000.
Like always, the race will most likely come down to the wire. Here’s how it looks as of April 10:
Rank Player Points Wins Podiums Final Tables Cashes Winnings 1 Kristen Foxen 1,015 3 3 3 7 $777,600 2 Chino Rheem 928 2 4 6 8 $908,175 3 Joey Weissman 907 1 4 6 6 $1,005,300 4 Nick Schulman 848 0 4 7 13 $805,245 5 Eric Blair 803 2 2 4 8 $798,520 6 Daniel Negreanu 789 2 3 6 9 $1,050,400 7 Jesse Lonis 786 1 4 5 9 $912,490 8 Michael Moncek 702 1 4 4 4 $1,208,750 9 Alex Foxen 677 1 4 4 7 $697,510 10 Patrick Leonard 628 1 2 5 8 $491,598
The U.S. Poker Open is an eight event series that takes place at the Aria from now April17, 2025. The player who finishes with the most points of the series win a special Golden Eagle trophy and a $25,000 PGT Passport. Click here for the schedule or to subscribe to PokerGO to stream the final tables.
