Kristen Bicknell

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Kristen Bicknell
Kristen Bicknell (2020)
Kristen Bicknell (2020)
  Personal information  
birth date December 29, 1986
place of birth CanadaCanada St. Catharines
Nicknames
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krissyb24PokerStars & partypoker

Kristen BicknellGGPoker

krissy24Full Tilt Poker

krissyb24!Americas cardroom
residence CanadaCanada Ottawa
Poker tournaments
Highest live prize money 0.$ 408,000 
All live prize money $ 5,344,935
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 3
Cash placements 45
Best main event 492nd ( 2018 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
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Cash placements 7th
  Main Event of the European Poker Tour  
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Cash placements 1
  Main Event of party poker Live  
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Cash placements 8th
Last updated: December 18, 2021

Kristen Dawn Bicknell (born December 29, 1986 in St. Catharines , Ontario ) is a professional Canadian poker player .

Bicknell is considered to be one of the best tournament players in the world and is one of the few women who can hold their own in the top male-dominated poker world. She has earned over 6 million US dollars online with tournament poker and more than 5 million US dollars live , making her third place in the ranking of the most successful women after live tournament prize money . Bicknell's triple bracelet winner of the World Series of Poker . She was named Player of the Year three times in a row by the Global Poker Index from 2017 to 2019 .

Personal

Bicknell is the daughter of Canadian racing driver Pete Bicknell , a member of the Canadian Motor Sports Hall of Fame . She grew up with two older sisters in St. Catharines , a town in southern Ontario , a few kilometers from the US border . Bicknell studied criminology at Carleton University in Ottawa . She had a relationship with the German poker pro Manig Löser until 2017 . She has been in a relationship with the American poker player Alex Foxen since 2018 and engaged to him since 2021. Bicknell lives in Ottawa.

Poker career

Career

2006–2016: Beginnings and winning two bracelets

Bicknell learned poker from friends during her freshman year at university. She was inspired by Jennifer Harman , who she saw on the TV format Poker After Dark .

Bicknell has been playing online poker since July 2006 . It uses on the platforms PokerStars , Party Poker and WSOP.com nickname krissyb24 and performed as krissy24 at Full Tilt Poker , as well as krissyb24! in appearance on Americas Cardroom . In addition, she plays under her real name at GGPoker . Their first live prize money won Bicknell May 2006 to June 2008 exclusively at smaller tournaments in the Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona in the US state of New York . In 2009 and 2010 she received three cash placements at the Venetian Resort Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip . From 2011 to 2013, the Canadian achieved the highest status as Supernova Elite on the online poker room PokerStars , as she played a total of over 15,000 poker hands on the platform at numerous tables at the same time. At the end of June 2013 , she made it into the money for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip and immediately won a tournament. Bicknell prevailed against 953 other players in the Ladies Championship and received, in addition to the title of poker world champion, a bracelet and a prize of more than 170,000 US dollars . In mid-December 2015, she achieved her first live prize money placement outside of the United States on the European Poker Tour in Prague . In June 2016, Bicknell signed a contract with the online poker room partypoker and was subsequently sponsored by them until August 2021. The Canadian cashed four times at the 2016 WSOP . She won her second bracelet in a bounty event of the No Limit Hold'em variant with a main prize of around 290,000 US dollars and also made it to the paid ranks for the first time in the main event . In early December 2016, she finished third at the Deepstacks Poker Tour main event in Calgary and received just under 130,000 Canadian dollars in prize money .

At the end of 2016, Bicknell's live tournament prize money was over $ 650,000.

2017–2018: Twice Player of the Year

Bicknell at the Caribbean Poker Party in Punta Cana (2017)

In February 2017, Bicknell reached the final table at the World Poker Tour (WPT) main event in Niagara Falls, Canada , finishing seventh, worth over 70,000 Canadian dollars. At the 2017 WSOP and the World Series of Poker Europe played in the King's Resort in Rozvadov, Czech Republic , she made it into the paid places a total of eleven times. At the beginning of December 2017 she won a tournament of the Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Hotel Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip, the prize money for which was around 200,000 US dollars due to a deal . In the Player of the Year ranking calculated by the Global Poker Index (GPI) , the Canadian came in 49th place as the best woman at the end of 2017 and was therefore named GPI Female Player of at the American Poker Awards in Los Angeles at the end of February 2018 the year .

In mid-March 2018, Bicknell won the National High Roller of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour in Macau with a prize money equivalent to around 280,000 US dollars. In the same tournament series, she finished fourth at the high roller event about a week later and received just under $ 200,000. In mid-June 2018, Bicknell finished second in the DeepStack Championship Poker Series at the Venetian Resort Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip and, after losing to her partner Alex Foxen in the last hand and negotiating a deal with him, received a cash prize of US $ 200,000. Dollar. The style of play that Foxen and she had shown in the three remaining players against Kahle Burns was controversial after the tournament, as the two were accused of a cautious style of play against each other (so-called "soft play"). At the end of 2018 Bicknell stood in the ranking of the GPI Player of the Year at the 27th place and was once again the best female player, for which they in April 2019 Aria Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip with a Global Poker Award was awarded .

By the end of calendar year 2018, Bicknell's live tournament winnings were just under $ 2.5 million.

Since 2019: Again player of the year and third bracelet

Bicknell at a cash game table (2021)

In January 2019, the Canadian reached the fourth day of the tournament at the PokerStars Players Championship in the Bahamas , where she was eliminated in eleventh place, worth almost $ 330,000. At the beginning of February 2019 she finished sixth in the A $ 100,000 Challenge of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne and received almost 300,000 Australian dollars . Bicknell finished second in a high roller tournament at the Poker Classic in Los Angeles in March 2019, which was awarded around 180,000 US dollars. She finished third in the main event of the Merit Poker Classic in Kyrenia , Northern Cyprus in May 2019 and received over 250,000 US dollars. At the end of May 2019, she took fourth place at the Main Event of the Spring Championship of Online Poker on PokerStars, endowed with around 270,000 US dollars. In mid-August 2019, Bicknell finished sixth in the Triton Super High Roller of the partypoker Millions Europe in Rozvadov and received 213,000 euros. In early November 2019, she sat at the final table at the WPT Main Event in Montreal and finished fifth, earning her 140,000 Canadian dollars. A week later, she became the first and so far only woman to win a Poker Masters tournament at the Aria Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Bicknell prevailed in the sixth event in the tournament series and secured her highest prize money to date of $ 408,000. In the ranking of the GPI Player of the Year she was ranked 18th as the best woman at the end of 2019 and was honored for the third time in a row as Player of the Year and again with a Global Poker Award in March 2020 . In addition, in 2019 Bicknell was temporarily in sixth place in the PocketFives ranking, which lists the most successful online poker tournament players worldwide.

In July 2020, the Canadian prevailed in a tournament of the World Series of Poker Online, which was played on GGPoker due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, and received more than 350,000 US dollars and her third bracelet.

Style of play

Bicknell spends a lot of time away from the poker tables analyzing her hands . In doing so, she looks for opportunities for improvement in hands that she has not played optimally in terms of game theory . According to her statement, due to the numerous training resources, poker is currently developing so rapidly that finding small mistakes is becoming increasingly important. Therefore, the number of hands she analyzed is steadily increasing.

Bracelet overview

Bicknell cashed 45 times at the WSOP. Along with Nani Dollison , Barbara Enright and Vanessa Selbst, she is one of four women to have secured three bracelets at the WSOP.

year Buy-in (in $ ) competition subscriber Prize money (in $)
2013 O
1000Men paid $ 10,000
Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship 0954 173.922
2016 O 1500 No-Limit Hold'em Bounty 2158 290,768
2020 O 2500 GGPoker.com - No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed 0892 356.412

Live prize money overview

Bicknell at a partypoker Live event (2018)

With tournament prize money of more than US $ 5 million, Bicknell is the best woman among the top 15 most successful Canadian poker players. In the ranking of the most successful women based on live tournament prize money, she is third behind Vanessa Selbst and Kathy Liebert .

year Prize money (in $ ) Tournament victories
2006 0.00.2920 -
2007 0.00.5407 -
2008 0,000.794 -
2009 0,000.998 -
2010 0.024,767 -
2011–2012 0.000.000 -
2013 0.173.922 1
2014 0.000.000 -
2015 0.00.1425 -
2016 0.457.777 1
2017 0.551.906 2
2018 1,095,611 1
2019 2,461,581 3
2020 0.320.907 1
2021 0.246.921 -
total 5,344,935 9

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Commons : Kristen Bicknell  - collection of images

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Bicknell, Kristen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bicknell, Kristen Dawn (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian poker player
BIRTH DATE December 29, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Catharines , Ontario , Canada