Kristen Foxen won Event #19, the $25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em (8-Handed), at WSOP 2026 on June 7, 2026. The Canadian banked $1,773,083 and a record-breaking sixth WSOP bracelet, beating Galen Hall heads-up from a 345-entry field and an $8,107,500 prize pool at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.

The win was the largest live tournament score of Foxen’s career and the fourth-largest tournament cash by a woman. It was also her fourth seven-figure cash in 12 months, with all four of her biggest scores arriving in that span. She now holds twice as many WSOP bracelets as any other woman.

Foxen had made it clear two years ago that her next goal was a bracelet she could be “prouder of.” Her previous five had come from smaller or online events. This was a $25,000 field stacked with elite pros, and she took it down in only her second tournament of the 2026 series.

Her husband four-time bracelet winner Alex Foxen presented the bracelet on the Paris ballroom stage.

The $25K High Roller ran two starting flights for the first time in 2026, and both sold out. Late registration on Day 2 pushed the field to its final count of 345 entries, building the largest prize pool in the event’s history.

Day-by-Day Progression

The money bubble burst on Day 2, with David Coleman leaving empty-handed after running into Jesse Lonis’s pocket aces. Among those who cashed but didn’t make Day 3 were high-stakes regulars Sergio Aido and Jon Vallinas, along with bracelet winner Daniel Rezaei.

Day 3 was carnage. Turbo Nguyen was first out, his flopped flush draw bricking against Nick Schulman’s aces. The 2025 Hall of Fame inductee Schulman followed him to the rail shortly after in 18th, when Zachary Grech got the better of him despite Schulman getting the chips in ahead.

Foxen made her presence felt early, knocking out both Eric Wasserson and Dejan Kaladjurdjevic in a simultaneous double elimination to cement her spot among the chip leaders.

Then Hall went on a rampage. He dispatched Brian Rast (another Hall of Famer hunting an eighth bracelet), Jesse Lonis in 13th, Zachary Grech in 12th, Didier Guerin in 11th, and Thomas Muehloecker in 10th.

The Muehloecker bust was a brutal cooler: both flopped a full house, but Hall held the bigger one.

Hall bagged 16,050,000 chips overnight, nearly a third of the total. Foxen sat second on 9,325,000.

Six players returned on Sunday, each guaranteed $300,942. Hall picked up where he left off, winning several early pots and setting the tempo from the start.

6th: Zdenek Zizka ($300,942)

The Czech bracelet winner raised to 600,000 from under the gun and Hall defended the big blind. The :4s: :10s: :qs: flop brought a long pause from Hall before he jammed. Zizka tanked and eventually called off his last 3,025,000 with :ah: :10h: for middle pair.

Hall turned over :as: :2c: for the nut flush draw. The :6s: turn completed it immediately, and the :kc: river changed nothing.

5th: Ignacio Moron ($413,389)

Moron jammed from the small blind for 5,500,000 with :as: :10d: and Foxen snap-called from the big blind with :8s: :8c:. A classic flip.

The :3s: :9c: :jd: flop kept Foxen’s eights in front. The :2c: turn changed nothing, and the :js: river sent the Spaniard to the rail. The $413,389 was the largest cash of Moron’s career.

4th: Joey Weissman ($577,326)

Weissman shoved his last 4,800,000 from the small blind with :kh: :8h: and Biao Ding called quickly from the big blind with :ks: :qh:.

The :js: :10d: :4h: flop gave both players a straight draw. The :9h: turn completed straights for both, but Ding held the nut version. The :3c: river was no help, and Weissman collected his second-largest career score.

Ding’s call also locked him in as China’s all-time live earnings leader on Hendon Mob.

3rd: Biao Ding ($819,504)

Hall rivered a straight against Ding’s two pair in a big pot to leave the Chinese pro short. Foxen then bluffed Ding off a pair to keep herself safely in second.

The key swing came when Foxen four-bet shoved :ad: :kh: over Hall’s three-bet, and Hall folded :ah: :jd:. That gave Foxen the chip lead for the first time on Day 4.

Ding moved all in from the small blind shortly after with :kh: :7s: and Foxen called with :ah: :8d:. Ding paired his king on the :kd: :2d: :jd: flop, but Foxen picked up the flush draw.

The :9c: turn kept Ding ahead, but the :3d: river completed the flush and ended his run.

Heads-Up: Foxen vs Hall

Foxen took a slender lead into heads-up play, ahead by just four big blinds at 26,850,000 to Hall’s 24,875,000.

Hall struck first, rivering the nut flush against Foxen’s two pair in a three-bet pot. He stretched his lead past two-to-one, firing barrels and putting Foxen in spots.

Foxen fought back. She check-raised with top two pair on a :ks: :9c: :9s: flop and fired again on the turn to force Hall off his hand.

Hall found some answers of his own, picking off a Foxen bluff with third pair and winning a big pot with trips where Foxen found the correct fold.

The biggest pot of the tournament was a cooler. Hall raised, Foxen called. The :jh: :8c: :3h: flop went check-call. On the :9h: turn, Foxen led for 3,400,000 and Hall called. Both had turned a straight, but Foxen held :qs: :10h: for the queen-high version while Hall’s :10c: :7s: made only a jack-high straight.

Foxen moved all in for 10,650,000 on the :4c: river. Hall called after a few seconds and saw the bad news. Foxen emerged with 38,000,000 of the 52,000,000 chips in play.

Minutes later, it was over. Foxen limped the button and Hall jammed from the big blind for 13,625,000.

Foxen snap-called.

Foxen had trapped with pocket aces. Hall was in terrible shape with ace-four offsuit.

Flop: :9c: :8d: :kd:

As safe as it gets for the bullets. Hall needed runner-runner.

Turn: :5h:

Drawing dead. The :2c: river was a formality. A $25,000 buy-in turned into $1,773,083 and a sixth gold bracelet.

“This was just all the best pros in the world. I haven’t won a large $25k yet so it feels really good. Things just went my way. It was really a dream.”
Kristen Foxen

“Playing in these super tough tournaments where there are very few women is just to show that just because you’re a female doesn’t mean you don’t belong there or that you can’t do it. If this is what you want to do, pursue it. There’s nothing stopping you.”
Kristen Foxen

The $25K High Roller 8-Handed has become the marquee mid-summer NLH event for the high-stakes field, drawing between 301 and 392 entries since its first edition in 2023.

The 2025 edition under Chang Lee set records for both entries (392) and first prize ($1,949,044). The 2026 field dipped to 345 but still built the second-largest pool in event history at $8,107,500 thanks to the new two-flight format. Haxton and Lee both won their first bracelets here, while Schulman claimed his fifth.

The top 52 of 345 entries cashed, with a minimum payout of $50,587. Hall’s runner-up finish of $1,182,050 was the second-largest cash of his career.

The $25K High Roller counts toward the PokerGO Tour standings, and Foxen picked up 750 PGT points for the win. That puts her at 1,258 total, just 13 behind season leader Brock Wilson.

She now has six WSOP bracelets, double the total of three-time bracelet winner Vanessa Selbst, Barbara Enright and Nani Dollison, who are tied at three each.

She is also the first woman to win an open WSOP event since Leo Margets in 2021.

Foxen’s first bracelet came in the 2013 Ladies Event. The 13 years between that win and this one have taken her from an unknown Canadian to the most decorated woman in WSOP history.

Two years ago, she came agonisingly close to becoming the first woman to reach the Main Event final table since Barbara Enright in 1995, but a bluff gone wrong ended her run in 13th place. The criticism that followed only fuelled her rise: every one of her four biggest cashes has come since.

The series rolls on with Event #24, the $25,000 High Roller Six-Handed, already into Day 2, and the $10,000 Dealer’s Choice Championship launching this week.

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