Alex Foxen

Alex Foxen
Alex Foxen (2019)
Personal information
Date of birth	February 1, 1991
place of birth	Cold Spring Harbor
Nicknames 0 0 0 0 0	bigfox86PokerStars fktheseguysbropartypoker & GGPoker OutFoxenYouAmericas cardroom RideTheSploogeLugeCarbon poker SploogeLugeBlackChip & Pokerhost GreyPoupon888poker
place of residence	Huntington's
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	0$ 2,160,000
Total prize money	$ 16,817,405
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	no
Cashes	39
Best main event	40th ( 2019 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	1
Cashes	11
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	3
Main Event of the PokerStars Championship
title	no
Cashes	2
Main Event of party poker Live
title	no
Cashes	5
Last updated: August 3, 2020

William Alexander "Alex" Foxen (born February 1, 1991 in Cold Spring Harbor , New York ) is a professional American poker player .

Foxen is considered one of the best tournament players in the world. He has earned more than $ 16.5 million playing poker in live tournaments . His greatest achievement so far was winning the World Poker Tour Main Event in Las Vegas in December 2019 . Foxen was at the top of the live poker world rankings for the first time on October 10, 2018 and led it for 37 weeks in a row until June 25, 2019 - longer than any other player. From July 10 to 23, and from July 31 to August 13, 2019, he again led the ranking for two weeks each. From December 25, 2019 to June 16, 2020, Foxen was back in first place for 25 weeks. From June 24th to July 14th 2020 he was again the leader. No other player was in the top position for more than 69 weeks . Foxen was named Player of the Year by the Global Poker Index (GPI) in 2018 and 2019 .

Personal

Foxen played college football on the tight end position at Boston College . He's dating the Canadian poker player Kristen Bicknell . Foxen lives in Huntington , New York, United States .

Poker career

On-line

Foxen has been playing online since November 2009 under the nicknames bigfox86 ( PokerStars ) , fktheseguysbro ( partypoker and GGPoker) , OutFoxenYou (Americas Cardroom) , RideTheSploogeLuge (Carbon Poker) , SploogeLuge (BlackChip and Pokerhost) and GreyPoupon ( 888poker ) . His tournament income is more than 5.5 million US dollars . In 2019 he was temporarily in fourth place in the PocketFives ranking, which lists the most successful online poker tournament players worldwide.

live

Career

2012–2017: First tournament successes

Foxen at the Five Diamond World Poker Classic in Las Vegas (2017)

Foxen has also been taking part in renowned live tournaments since 2012 .

Foxen won a tournament at the World Series of Poker Circuit in New Orleans in mid-May 2012 and received a prize of more than $ 20,000. In June 2015 he was successful for the first time in the main tournament series of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and came in the money in three tournaments of the No Limit Hold'em variant . At the 2016 WSOP , Foxen finished 109th in the main event for just under $ 50,000 in prize money. A year later, he made the money 14 times at the 2017 WSOP . He secured his highest prize money of around 100,000 US dollars for a third place in an event in No Limit Hold'em . In mid-August 2017, Foxen won a tournament at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open in Hollywood , Florida with a prize of more than $ 200,000. In December 2017, he reached the final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) main event at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas and received more than $ 1.1 million in prize money for his second place.

Overall, Foxen had tournament revenue of more than $ 2 million by the end of 2017.

2018: First world number one and player of the year

Foxen after winning an LA Poker Classic event in Los Angeles (2018)

Foxen prevailed at the high roller of the LA Poker Classic in Los Angeles at the end of February 2018 with a grand prize of just under 430,000 US dollars. In mid-March 2018, he also won the Super High Roller of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour in Macau and secured a prize of just under one million US dollars. In mid-June 2018, he won a tournament at the DeepStack Championship Poker Series at the Venetian Resort Hotel in Las Vegas and, after defeating his girlfriend Kristen Bicknell heads-up and negotiating a deal with her, received prize money of US $ 239,000 -Dollar. In mid-August 2018, as in the previous year, Foxen won an event at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open with a prize money of more than 200,000 US dollars. Two weeks later, he finished third at an event on the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Barcelona and received prize money of more than 450,000 euros. At the beginning of October 2018 Foxen finished second at the main event of the partypoker Millions Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham and secured prize money equivalent to just under 950,000 US dollars due to a deal with the winner Ioannis Angelou-Konstas . Following this success, Foxen was first in the first place in the poker world rankings . In mid-December 2018, he finished second at the Super High Roller Bowl at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas and received his highest prize money to date of more than 2 million US dollars. In total, Foxen won prize money of more than 6.5 million US dollars in the 2018 calendar year. At the end of the year he was named Global Poker Index Player of the Year and received a Global Poker Award in early April 2019 for this achievement .

Since 2019: WPT title and again Player of the Year

In January 2019, Foxen finished runner-up in a US $ 50,000 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure event in the Bahamas and received more than US $ 650,000 in prize money. In mid-April 2019, he finished second in the High Roller at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown and secured $ 545,000 through a deal with Aaron Mermelstein . About two weeks later, Foxen reached two final tables at the EPT in Monte-Carlo , earning him prize money of over 760,000 euros. In December 2019, Foxen won the WPT Main Event at the Bellagio Hotel. For this he prevailed against 1,034 other players and secured a prize money of more than 1.6 million US dollars. Thanks to this success, he once again collected the most tournament points in the GPI over the 2019 calendar year and, as in the previous year, was awarded GPI Player of the Year and a Global Poker Award . In total, he earned prize money of almost 6.5 million US dollars in 2019.

In January 2020, Foxen finished second in the A $ 100,000 Challenge of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne, worth more than 1.1 million Australian dollars .

Prize money overview

year	Prize money (in $ )	Tournament victories
2012	00.022,421	1
2013	00,000.556	-
2014	00.018.001	-
2015	00.133,222	-
2016	00.339,450	1
2017	01,716,078	1
2018	06,632,556	5
2019	06,346,433	2
2020	01,608,690	1
total	16,817,405	11

Web links

Commons : Alex Foxen  - collection of images

• Alex Foxen in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• Alex Foxen in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• Alex Foxen in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)
• Alex Foxen in the database of Pocket Fives (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Alex Foxen - 2011 Football Roster - Boston College on bceagles.com, accessed June 1, 2018.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Alex Foxen in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 1, 2018.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Alex Foxen in the database of the Global Poker Index, accessed on October 26, 2018 (English).
4. ↑ Poker Power Couple Kristen Bicknell and Alex Foxen Both Win APPT Macau High Rollers on cardschat.com on March 19, 2018, accessed on June 1, 2018.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Alex Foxen in the World Series of Poker database, accessed December 14, 2019.
6. ↑ SploogeLuge in the PocketFives database, accessed on June 1, 2018.
7. ↑ WSOP Circuit - New Orleans ($ 355 No Limit Hold'em - Six Handed) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 1, 2018.
8. ↑ 47th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2016 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event Championship (Event # 68)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 1, 2018.
9. ↑ 48th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2017 ($ 1,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 65)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 1, 2018.
10. ↑ 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open ($ 2,650 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 12)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 1, 2018.
11. ↑ WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic ($ 10,000 + 400 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Main Event (Event # 18)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 1, 2018.
12. ↑ 2018 WPT LA Poker Classic ($ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller # 63) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 1, 2018.
13. ↑ Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Macau (HK $ 400,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller (Event # 6)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 1, 2018.
14. ↑ Poker Couple Alex Foxen and Kristen Bicknell Battle Heads-Up For Big Live Tournament Title on cardplayer.com on June 18, 2018, accessed on November 12, 2018.
15. ↑ DeepStack Championship Poker Series ($ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em - MSPT 5k # 69) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 19, 2018.
16. ↑ 2018 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open ($ 2,650 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 20)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2018.
17. ↑ European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona (€ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 17)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 29, 2018 (English).
18. ↑ partypoker Millions Dusk Till Dawn (£ 5,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Millions UK Main Event # 2) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 8, 2018.
19. ↑ Super High Roller Bowl ($ 300,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 20, 2018.
20. ↑ GPI Player of the Year 2018 on the Global Poker Index website, accessed January 9, 2019.
21. ↑ Global Poker Awards: Imsirovic named Breakout Player of the Year, Bonomo named Moment of the Year on pokernews.com on April 8, 2019, accessed on April 8, 2019.
22. ↑ PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) 2019 ($ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 13)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 10, 2019.
23. ↑ Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown ($ 25,500 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller (Event # 23)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 21, 2019.
24. ↑ European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo (€ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 16)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 1, 2019 (English).
25. ↑ European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo (€ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 20)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 1, 2019 (English).
26. ↑ World Poker Tour - WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic ($ 10,000 + 400 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic (Event # 22)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 22, 2019 .
27. ↑ GPI Player of the Year: Alex Foxen wins back-to-back in the photo finish / Kristen Bicknell will be FPoY on hochgepokert.com on December 31, 2019, accessed on January 1, 2020.
28. ↑ 2020 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 98,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em - 100K Challenge (Event # 23)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 23, 2020.