Alex Foxen
United States
Carreer Earnings
$20,237,981 USD
GPI Ranking
5th
PokerGO Trophies



Biography
The world’s top-rated poker player has been a mainstay at the 2019 U.S. Poker Open at ARIA in Las Vegas. Alex Foxen’s last few months – which include a career-best $2.1 million score in the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl in late December – have deservedly given him the distinction of the Global Poker Index’s number one ranked player in the world. But the two years that preceded his current title tell his story.
His seven-figure cash in December 2018 came one year (almost to the date) after his first breakthrough score: a runner-up finish at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event in 2017 for $1.1 million. In many ways that payday was the validation of Foxen’s incredible 2017 World Series of Poker run. He cashed 14 times during the 2017 WSOP, visiting the cage to collect once every couple days throughout the month of June, and placed 7th in the final player of the year standings.
Last year was when Foxen cemented his place among poker’s elite. He notched cashes of $424,000 at the WPT in Los Angeles; $963,000 at the Asian Pacific Poker Tour in Macau; $239,000 at the DeepStack Championship Poker Series in Las Vegas; $208,000 at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open in Florida; $530,000 at the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Barcelona; $948,000 at the partypoker MILLIONS in Nottingham; and $400,000 in live cashes at the WPT Five Diamond in Las Vegas before his runner up $2.1 million cash.
Foxen spent 2018 traveling the world and playing poker. For 2019, that is a difficult precedent to follow. His results tell the story of a player poised to exceed whatever grand expectations he’s created for himself, seemingly moving from one career plateau to the next.
Entering the 2019 USPO, Foxen already has nearly $1 million in tournament cashes this year. He’s joined in the PokerGO Studio by two-time WSOP bracelet winner Kristen Bicknell, his girlfriend. So far Bicknell’s 5th place cash for $118,000 in Event #5 represents the couple’s only score at this year’s event but Foxen can take consolation in being GPI’s top-ranked player in the world.
“Winning the USPO Championship would definitely be one of my proudest poker accomplishments. It’s a lot of the best players in the world and those are always the fields that give me the greatest sense of accomplishment to win,” Foxen told Poker Central earlier this month.
From busting onto the scene to nearly winning 2017 WSOP Player of the Year, to scoring for six figures all across the globe in 2018 en route to being named Player of the Year, Foxen has ambitious plans for 2019.
“Being the first person to win back to back player of the year would be pretty amazing and it’s definitely something that I’m hoping to achieve,” he said told Poker Central.
PokerGO Event Results
4th
37,400 USD
3rd
220,500 USD
1st
283,500 USD
11th
26,400 USD
6th
46,200 USD
2nd
128,700 USD
3rd
57,600 USD
6th
20,500 USD
3rd
100,000 USD
2nd
97,500 USD
2nd
157,500 USD
8th
39,000 USD
1st
153,615 USD
4th
37,400 USD
7th
18,000 USD
7th
30,500 USD
1st
150,845 USD
3rd
65,600 USD
3rd
464,000 USD
4th
187,000 USD
7th
71,250 USD
2nd
82,500 USD
3rd
184,000 USD
3rd
108,000 USD
3rd
280,000 USD
4th
75,000 USD
1st
178,200 USD
9th
39,600 USD
5th
79,200 USD
3rd
72,000 USD
7th
32,500 USD
5th
72,000 USD
5th
42,400 USD
3rd
66,000 USD
2nd
88,400 USD
3rd
448,000 AUD
5th
58,000 AUD
3rd
115,000 USD
17th
60,000 USD
13th
30,000 USD
7th
61,250 USD
2nd
88,800 USD
12th
19,400 USD
4th
205,000 USD
9th
27,300 USD
2nd
2,160,000 USD