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Alex Foxen added another major result to one of poker most consistent tournament records, winning Event #44 at the 2026 World Series of Poker for $594,246 and his fourth gold bracelet.
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Foxen did not need a long format to add another bracelet. The $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em event started at noon at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, and the money bubble burst by 8:00 PM after Nguyen Le exited.
From there, the pace kept climbing. Foxen beat a final table that included Yixi Tang, Cedric Schwaederle, Martin Zamani, Nazar Buhaiov, Sergio Martinez Gonzalez, Harvey Castro and Jamie Dwan.
The win gave the 35-year-old professional his fourth WSOP bracelet and another major seven-figure summer path, with more than $1.2 million in earnings across five cashes at the series so far.
“I think your career is really about repeated performance and an entire body of work, rather than one event proving something,” Foxen told PokerNews live reporters after closing out the win. “This doesn’t feel, to me, like the one that would do that… but it’s a piece of the body of work, so I’m proud of it.”
Foxen now has $60,565,402 in career cashes. He became only the ninth player to pass $60 million and now sits ninth on poker all-time money list.
Foxen had already reached two WSOP final tables before Event #44. He finished fifth in the $600 Deepstack NLH/PLO and sixth in the $100,000 high roller before turning the turbo bounty run into a bracelet.
The timing also gave the result extra weight. Kristen Foxen won her sixth bracelet one week earlier in the $25,000 high roller, adding another chapter to a rare run by one poker household.
“It feels great. Super fortunate for how we started out this summer,” said Foxen. “It’s definitely extra special to have it happen at the WSOP in the wake of Krissy having a big win.”
Several well-known players also made deep runs in Event #44, including Danny Tang, John Juanda, Josh Arieh, Elior Sion, Martin Kabrhel, Dario Sammartino, Zachary Grech and Narcis Nedelcu.
Foxen built the win through a wild final stretch. He knocked out Sergio Martinez Gonzalez when ace-eight beat ace-jack, then cracked Nazar Buhaiov pocket aces with eight-seven after improving to a full house. Foxen later used pocket aces to send Martin Zamani out in fourth and made a pair of nines to eliminate Cedric Schwaederle in third. Heads-up play against Yixi Tang swung both ways, with Tang first catching a flush and later cracking Foxen pocket aces to survive. Foxen finally closed it when king-six hit a king on the turn against Tang queen-three.
Yixi Tang earned $396,145 for second place, the largest score of his live tournament career. His previous top cash was $103,000 for seventh place in a $10,000 Triton One Jeju event earlier in 2026.
| Place | Player | Payout |
| 1 | Alex Foxen | $594,246 |
| 2 | Yixi Tang | $396,145 |
| 3 | Cedric Schwaederle | $272,824 |
| 4 | Martin Zamani | $191,357 |
| 5 | Nazar Buhaiov | $136,737 |
| 6 | Sergio Martinez Gonzalez | $99,578 |
| 7 | Harvey Castro | $73,933 |
| 8 | Jamie Dwan | $55,985 |