Kristen Foxen Wins Second PokerGO Tour Event in a Month

Kristen Foxen has done it again. Foxen, who was recently inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame, won her second PokerGO Tour high-roller event in 2025 — and it’s not even close to spring.

Foxen won a $15,100 event at the PGT Cup for $348,300, which is her fourth-best lifetime cash. She was part of an 86 entry field who generated a prize pool of $1,290,000.  

The final table of seven included poker legend Erik Seidel, who made his fourth final table at a PokerGO Tour high-roller event this year. He stalled out in fourth for $116,100, following a third place finish in the second event of the PGT Cup, a $10,100 event that saw 118 entries. He also scored a seventh-place finish and a fifth.

His lifetime tourney earnings sits at $47.4 million.

Foxen had plenty of work to do with the second-shortest stack at the final table, and she made it happen through a series of double-ups that saw her premium hands hold up. The first one came against Patrick Leonard and his AQ, with Foxen finding AK.

After a series of eliminations, she then doubled up through Farid Jattin, who shoved from the button with KJ. It was an easy call for Foxen in the small blind after looking down and seeing kings. Foxen now had 80% of the chips as heads-up play began.

Leonard soon went all-in with A9, ahead of Foxen’s KJ, and it looked like the tourney would go on with the four cards in the middle, but that fifth river card gave Foxen a pair of jacks and her second title of the year.

She started the year winning the fifth event of the PGT Kickoff, a $10,100 No Limit Hold’em contest on Jan. 24, that attracted 93 entries for $197,625. She won the same event in 2024, which lit the fuse on a year the 38-year-old pro will not forget, as she became the center of the poker universe for a few days in July with a deep run in the World Series of Poker’s Main Event.

Although she missed the final nine by four, her 13th-place finish was good for her lifetime-best cash of $600,000.

The win at the PGT Cup puts her on the top of the PokerGO Tour’s leaderboard.

The final event in the series will conclude today. Then, the PokerGO Tour rolls into its PGT Mixed Games series, Feb. 24 to March 20. Click here for the complete schedule.