Triton Poker Report
Five years separated Alex Foxen’s first and second cashes on the Triton Super High Roller Poker Series. But having claimed a maiden title in Monte Carlo in November, it’s taken only a month for Foxen to land another.
The 33-year-old American pro vowed to play all the Triton stops as he collected his first trophy last month, and he kept his promise by returning to the series here at the Atlantis Resort, Paradise Island, in the Bahamas. And tonight Foxen overpowered a characteristically difficult $100K Main Event field to pick up the incredible $3.85 million first prize, which also comes with a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet.
It’s a second Triton win, and a third bracelet, and comes only days after he picked up a $2.8 million score in the Triton Invitational. This was truly a masterclass from one of tournament poker’s finest exponents. Foxen stayed in the hunt in the middle of the pack for all of three days of competition, saving his most devastating play for today’s final.
He rose from seventh in chips as the final got under way, and did not put a foot wrong. After winning a massive, tournament-defining flip against Sam Mullur, Foxen goaded Fedor Holz into paying him off when only three players remained, and he then pulled off one of the all-time most heroic hero-calls against his heads-up opponent Joao Vieira to seal the deal.
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