Kristen Foxen Weathers the Storm to Run Away With Event #7: $15,100 No-Limit Hold'em Title

Kristen Foxen came into the final table of Event #7: $15,100 No-Limit Hold'em as one of the two short stacks in the field but survived a roller coaster of a five-hand stretch to steal all the momentum and run away with the trophy and $348,300 first place prize, plus 279 PGT points. 

The first level of play was a prolonged feeling-out period for the seven players at the final table as Sergio Aido was left crippled by David Peters, only to double through Patrick Leonard moments later. 

Eric Wasserson started the day on the short stack just 15,000 behind Foxen for sixth. Still, he could get nothing going and started the chaos that was level eighteen, hitting the rail in seventh place for $51,600 plus 41 PGT points when the last of his chips got into the middle with four-deuce from the big blind against Farid Jattin's ace-jack. 

A few hands later, Foxen would find her first double of the level when her ace-king dominated Leonard's ace-queen to move her from the short stack to the fourth in chips. One hand later, short stack Aido picked up a double of his own when his last 540,000 ended up in the middle with nine-six suited from the small blind up against start-of-day chip leader Erik Seidel's king three. 

A six on the river secured the double for Aido, but the chips didn't stay in his stack long as the next hand, his pocket tens were cracked by Leonard's ace-nine for the third double in a row. 

Aido immediately got chips back again in the next hand when his pocket sevens open-shoved the cutoff and held against the king-queen of Foxen from the big blind.

However, Foxen remained undeterred, and on the next hand, she picked up kings in the small blind and doubled into the chip lead when Farid Jattin shoved the button with a king-jack to close out the roller coaster of a level. 

Aido would then score the sixth double in a row for short stacks at the start of the next level through Peters, leaving Foxen with a sizeable chip lead, which she immediately put to work. 

Peters was sitting in second in chips despite the double and found himself in great shape to take the chip lead when he got all in for roughly two million with ace-queen against Foxen's ace-four. However, the flop was bad news for Peters as a four appeared in the window, giving Foxen the edge. 

Another four on the river sealed his fate in sixth place for $64,500 plus 52 PGT points, and Foxen suddenly had just under sixty percent of the chips in play. 

Foxen would hand out a pair of doubles to Seidel and Leonard to dent her stack, but she then picked up ace-queen and got all in with Aido's ace-four to send the Spaniard home in fifth place for $90,300 plus 72 PGT points to get all the chips back. 

Foxen would take a back seat for the next elimination as Seidel found himself all in with pocket queens against the ace-jack of Jattin. An ace in the window on the flop left Seidel heading to the payout cage in fourth place for $116,100 plus 93 PGT points. 

Leonard would find another double through Foxen moments later and moved into second in chips after his rivered over bet with two pair got paid of by Jattin's single pair to move him into second in chips.  

Jattin then ran into the buzzsaw that was Foxen as he got his last 1,600,000 into the middle with king-queen from the big blind, only for Foxen to have woken up with ace-queen on the button. Jattin flopped a broadway draw but would improve no further, hitting the rail in in third place for $161,250 plus 129 PGT points, while Foxen took eighty percent of the chips in play to the heads-up match with Leonard. 

Leonard proved game, drawing first blood to bridge the gap slightly, and found himself all in and ahead with ace-nine against Foxen king-jack to further less her chip lead. However, Foxen hits a jack on the river, and Leonard was out the door in second place for $225,750 plus 181 PGT points. 

Event #7 Final Table Payouts 

Joey Weissman Remains in Front for 2025 PokerGO Cup

After bubbling Event #6, Joey Weissman once again failed to find a cash in Event #7 and continued to leave the door open with just the $25,000 Championship Event to go in the race for the 2025 PokerGO Cup, but what was Weissman loss was Eric Blair's gain as the fellow two-time 2025 PokerGO Cup event winner notched a third cash of the series with a 10th place finish in Event #7 and now trails Weissman by just 13 points with one event to play. 

Event #7 drew 86 entries to create a prize pool of $1,290,000, with the top thirteen players finding a cash. Sam Laskowitz looked to be in a prime position to score not only cash but maybe win the whole event as he was chip leader with 15 players remaining before getting the call that his first child was on the way and deciding to abandon his stack. 

So, with Laskowitz sitting out, the remaining 14 players duked it out, and Brock Wilson was the unfortunate bubble when Dan Smith's ace-queen cracked his pocket jacks, sending the players into the money. 

Once play reached the money, Darren Elias (13th), Nick Schulman (12th), Matthew McEwan (11th), Blair (10th), and Smith (9th) all hit the rail before Laskowitz would eventually blind out in eighth place for $51,600 to set the stage for the final table. 

The win was Foxen's third cash of the series, and she now sits within striking distance of Blair and Weissman at the top of the 2025 PokerGO Cup Leaderboard with 332 points, good for fourth place. However, the win does mark Foxen's second title and sixth cash of the 2025 season as she passes Weissman for first place on the season leaderboard with 857 points through two series.

Event #5 winner Aido picked up his second cash and rounded out the top five of the series leaderboard with 327 points, five points behind Foxen. Michael Moncek has not scored a cash since final tabling three of the first four events and sits in third with 484 points.  

Event #3 winner Adam Hendrix is sixth, Keith Lehr is seventh, Event #7 runner-up Leonard is eighth, Seidel is ninth, and Harvey Castro rounds out the top ten with 194 points heading into the championship event. 

The PokerGO live reporting team is already on site, and you can catch all the day one action here before coverage of day one starts at 10:00 pm PT on PokerGO. Coverage will continue wherever you stream PokerGO until a final table is reached and the remaining players bag and tag before returning to the PokerGO Studio on February 20th at a time yet to be determined to crown a 2025 PokerGO Cup Champion. 

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