Kristen Foxen Net Worth 2026: Career Earnings, 6 WSOP Bracelets & Poker Bio

Kristen Foxen is the most decorated woman in World Series of Poker history. Born in St. Catharines, Ontario in 1986, she holds six WSOP bracelets: twice as many as any other woman.

Her tracked live tournament earnings top $19.2 million across 300 cashes, roughly $7.3 million clear of Vanessa Selbst at the top of the women’s all-time money list. We estimate her net worth at $5 million to $10 million.

This profile separates what’s verifiable from what’s estimated. Her tournament results are public record, while the net worth range is built from components we show in full. We cite the source for every figure and flag anything we cannot verify.

She has held the women’s all-time money record since September 2025 and won her sixth bracelet in June 2026, both verified against Hendon Mob and WSOP.com.

Kristen Foxen’s net worth is estimated at $5 million to $10 million. The range starts from her tracked live cashes and allows for the buy-ins, staking splits and taxes that come out of every payout.

Gross tournament earnings never equal take-home wealth, so the sections below separate the figure we can verify from the parts we have to estimate.

How we reach the $5M to $10M estimate

Third-party sites publish net worth figures for Foxen without showing their working. Ours is built from five components:

We publish a range rather than a point estimate because her private cash game results and backing splits are off the public record.

What we can verify: $19.2M in tracked live earnings

Foxen’s tracked live tournament earnings total $19,235,650 across 300 recorded cashes, per The Hendon Mob. That figure is public, auditable and updated after every tracked event.

Other databases list higher totals because they fold in confirmed online results that Hendon Mob does not track. The gap between them is methodological, not an error.

That figure puts Foxen 79th on poker’s all-time money list. She overtook retired record holder Vanessa Selbst’s total in September 2025 to become the highest-earning female tournament player ever.

Foxen’s tournament record spans live high rollers, WSOP events, Triton super high rollers, and the PokerGO Tour. She recorded four seven-figure cashes in a single twelve-month stretch from September 2025 to June 2026.

Hendon Mob is the source for every figure below unless stated otherwise.

Top 10 live tournament cashes

Five of her top ten are from Triton events. Row 8 is the exception: the $356,412 came online, in the 2020 WSOP Online series, and would drop off a strictly live ranking.

Six WSOP bracelets, from 2013 to 2026

All six are in no-limit hold’em. Vanessa Selbst, Barbara Enright and Nani Dollison have three apiece, the next best mark in WSOP history. Her full WSOP bracelet record is tracked on WSOP.com.

The 2026 win was her first live bracelet since 2016 and her career-best cash.

How did Kristen Foxen win the WSOP 2026 $25K High Roller?

Event #19 drew 345 entries across two starting flights, building an $8,107,500 prize pool. Foxen entered the final table second in chips behind Galen Hall.

Biao Ding took third for $819,504 and Joey Weissman fourth for $577,326. Ignacio Moron finished fifth for $413,389, with sixth place worth $300,942.

In the final hand, Foxen limped A♥ A♦ on the button. Hall jammed A♣ 4♦ and the board ran out 9♣ 8♦ K♦ 5♥ 2♣ to change nothing.

Hall earned $1,182,050 as runner-up. The result is logged in the WSOP 2026 daily results tracker.

Triton Poker: three seven-figure cashes in twelve months

Foxen had 16 cashes on the Triton Poker circuit by March 2026 and added three more in Montenegro that May. All three of her seven-figure Triton scores came between September 2025 and May 2026.

The September 2025 result was her first seven-figure cash. The March 2026 fourth place was her career-best cash until the WSOP win three months later.

At that March final table, Foxen folded pocket kings preflop in an extreme ICM spot. The kings would have made top set, and the fold drew wide debate across poker media.

PokerGO Tour titles from 2024 to 2026

Foxen is a PokerGO Tour regular, with 17 cashes in the 2025 season alone. Her PGT titles, including the WSOP High Roller that also counted on the tour:

A week after her April 2026 U.S. Poker Open win, she finished runner-up in the series finale for $264,000.

The WSOP win lifted her to 2nd on the 2026 PGT leaderboard in June. She left Las Vegas with 11 PGT cashes, two wins and $2,582,255 in 2026 PGT earnings.

WPT Five Diamond, APPT Macau and Poker Masters wins

Three titles from 2017 to 2019 showed she could beat elite live fields, not just online ones. Her WPT win came in a Five Diamond festival event at the Bellagio rather than a Main Tour stop.

She beat David Peters heads-up in Macau and Chance Kornuth at the Poker Masters, where her 8♠ 8♥ made a river straight against his 9♦ 9♥.

WSOP 2024 Main Event: 13th place for $600,000

Foxen’s 13th-place finish in the 2024 WSOP Main Event was the highest by a woman since 2012. She narrowly missed becoming the first woman at the Main Event final table since Barbara Enright in 1995.

She busted to Joe Serock and faced some online criticism of her exit hand, which she addressed candidly. The payout remains her fifth-largest career cash.

Foxen built her game online before she ever sat in a live high-roller field. Her online volume across PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker gave her a speed of development that few live-only players can match.

Supernova Elite: 2.5 million hands per year

Foxen played under the screen name “krissyb24” on PokerStars and “krissy24” on Full Tilt Poker. She achieved Supernova Elite status in 2011, 2012, and 2013: three consecutive years at the highest tier of the PokerStars VIP programme.

Reaching Supernova Elite required approximately 2.5 million hands per year, played at $1/$2 to $2/$4 across as many as 24 tables at once. She has said the sheer number of hands helped her develop pattern recognition in a fraction of the time older pros needed.

How did Kristen Foxen earn the ‘Ultimate Grinder’ nickname?

Foxen gave herself the nickname in 2012, using it as the title of her Card Player blog. It described her approach at the time: grinding mid-stakes cash games across dozens of simultaneous tables for hours on end.

She was studying criminology at Carleton University in Ottawa when her online results hit six figures. She left university roughly two classes short of a degree to play poker full time.

Online bracelets in 2020, 2023 and 2024

Half of her bracelets came online: in 2020 on GGPoker, then in 2023 and 2024 on WSOP Online. For the 2024 win she played under the screen name “Saraswati”.

Foxen’s career arc runs from watching poker on television as a teenager in Ontario to holding more WSOP bracelets than any woman in the game’s history. The timeline below traces the key turning points.

From St. Catharines to two bracelets, 1986 to 2016

Foxen grew up in St. Catharines, Ontario. She was drawn to poker watching Poker After Dark and has cited Jennifer Harman as her earliest inspiration.

Harman won two open WSOP bracelets, in 2000 and 2002. Her composure at the table convinced Foxen that a woman could compete at the highest level.

Her 2013 Ladies Championship bracelet was her first major live result after years of online grinding, and the 2016 $1,500 NLH Bounty marked her shift to live tournament competitor.

2017 to 2019: three straight GPI Female Player of the Year titles

This stretch established Foxen as the dominant female tournament player of her generation. She won the GPI Female Player of the Year award in 2017, 2018 and 2019, and added three titles along the way:

She signed with partypoker as a sponsored pro during this run and appeared on Poker After Dark’s “Femme Fatale” week, finishing as a top earner. The same network that had inspired her as a teenager now featured her at the table.

2020 to 2022: pandemic bracelet, partypoker exit, and marriage

Foxen won her third bracelet in the 2020 WSOP Online series on GGPoker: a $2,500 NLH 6-Handed event that ran during the height of COVID lockdowns.

In August 2021 she and partypoker parted ways with no stated reason. That same year she and her then-partner, four-time WSOP bracelet winner Alex Foxen, opposed the WSOP’s vaccine mandate, covered in Controversies below.

She married Alex Foxen in April 2022.

2023 to present: the record-breaking run

From 2023 onward Foxen’s results accelerated sharply. She won back-to-back online bracelets in 2023 and 2024, becoming the first woman with four and then five WSOP bracelets.

In July 2024 she finished 13th in the WSOP Main Event for $600,000. In December 2024 she was inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame.

She signed with WePoker as an ambassador in 2025 and won her fifth GPI Female Player of the Year title. In September 2025 a Triton Jeju cash pushed her past Vanessa Selbst on the women’s all-time money list.

On June 7, 2026 she won the WSOP $25,000 High Roller for $1,773,083 and her record sixth bracelet. The full breakdown is in the Career Earnings section above.

Foxen’s game was forged in the extreme volume of online multi-tabling. That foundation shows in how she plays live: fast reads, minimal hesitation, and a discipline built on millions of repetitions.

Pattern recognition built on 24 tables at once

Running up to 24 tables simultaneously for three years built her pattern recognition at a pace live play cannot match. She has described the online grind as compressing years of experience into months.

At the table she is known for relentless attentiveness: she rarely uses her phone during hands and keeps her focus across long tournament days. That discipline carries over from the multi-tabling era, where any lapse across two dozen screens meant lost EV.

Why does Kristen Foxen play high rollers?

Foxen plays primarily in high-roller and super-high-roller fields, where female representation is lowest. That is deliberate: she has spoken openly about choosing those fields to challenge the assumption that women do not belong in top-tier events.

“Just because you’re a female doesn’t mean you don’t belong there or that you can’t do it.” – Kristen Foxen

Her earlier career included mixed-game and cash exposure, including a Poker After Dark appearance in 2018. Her elite results are concentrated in no-limit hold’em tournaments, and that is where she continues to focus.

The mindset shift after 2024 and Triton Jeju

After painful near-misses in 2024 and early 2026, Foxen described a change in her mental approach. The 2024 Main Event bustout in 13th and the folded pocket kings at Triton Jeju both stung. But she framed the pain as a release.

“I’ve had some big moments that didn’t go my way, and in a way it’s a blessing because the worst case happened. I didn’t have any fear anymore.” – Kristen Foxen

That fearlessness showed in the WSOP 2026 High Roller, where she limped pocket aces on the button heads-up and let Galen Hall jam into her. The trap was clinical.

Foxen’s consistency across seasons is measured most clearly by the Global Poker Index. No woman has won the GPI Female Player of the Year award more often, and the margins of her best seasons were not close.

How many times has Kristen Foxen won GPI Female Player of the Year?

Foxen has won the award five times: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, and 2025.

The 2025 title was her second in three seasons, after 2023. The overall 2025 GPI Player of the Year went to Punnat Punsri, the first Asian player to win the main award.

Where does Foxen rank among female poker players historically?

By the measurable criteria, Foxen holds three records no other woman has matched: most WSOP bracelets (6), highest career live earnings ($19.24M), and most GPI Female POY titles (5). Together they make the statistical case for her as the most accomplished female tournament player in poker history.

Her first title, in 2017, came ahead of Maria Lampropulos in second and fellow tournament regular Maria Ho in third.

Beyond her own results, Foxen coaches other tournament players as part of the instruction team at Chip Leader Coaching.

What is Chip Leader Coaching?

Chip Leader Coaching (CLC) is an MTT training programme founded by Chance Kornuth and Alex Foxen. Her Instagram bio lists “Coach @clcpoker,” and she works with students in two formats:

Her approach draws on the volume-built foundation covered in the Playing Style section: pattern recognition drilled across millions of hands, applied to modern high-roller fields.

Philip Chun: a coaching success story at WSOP 2026

Philip Chun, himself a CLC coach, won the 2026 WSOP $550 Mini Mystery Millions (Event #1) for $400,000. Before the final day he called Foxen for an hour-long coaching session. He had texted her at 3 a.m.

“I would not be here holding the bracelet if it wasn’t for Kristen as my coach.” – Philip Chun

The anecdote captures the dual role Foxen now fills: competing at the highest buy-in levels while actively developing tournament players through CLC.

Foxen’s career has drawn public scrutiny on three occasions. Each involved the dynamics of competing as one half of a high-profile poker couple. The section below reports what was alleged, what Foxen said in response, and where each matter stands.

The 2021 WSOP vaccine mandate controversy

In 2021 the WSOP introduced a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all players. Both Kristen and Alex Foxen were among the most vocal opponents, calling for a boycott of the series. Reaction split along these lines:

The mandate was enforced. The Foxens did not play the 2021 WSOP live series. The controversy faded after the mandate was dropped for 2022, but the episode remains part of their public record.

Softplaying allegations at the 2018 MSPT Venetian

After Kristen and Alex finished first and second at a $5,000 MSPT Venetian event in 2018, Australian pro James Obst publicly accused the couple of soft-playing each other during three-handed action.

Kristen denied the allegation. She explained that her table conversation with Alex was unrelated to strategy. The episode was later discussed in a Doug Polk video and has resurfaced whenever the couple makes a deep joint run in the same event.

Ghosting accusations after the 2020 WSOP Online bracelet

After her 2020 online bracelet, some on social media suggested that Alex may have “ghosted” the win: secretly played the account on her behalf.

The claims were widely condemned as sexist. Players including Danielle Andersen and Triton high roller regular Jason Koon defended Foxen, noting she was the more accomplished player when the couple began dating. Foxen had two bracelets and Supernova Elite status before Alex’s career took off.

Foxen responded that the misogyny within the industry was what bothered her most about the episode. No evidence of ghosting was ever presented.

Foxen keeps most of her life away from the tables private. What follows is what she has spoken about publicly: her marriage, her age, and where she lives.

How old is Kristen Foxen?

Foxen was born on December 29, 1986. She is currently 39 years old.

Who is Kristen Foxen married to?

Foxen married fellow poker professional Alex Foxen in April 2022 in a small ceremony in the Florida Keys. They forwent a honeymoon and were back at the felt days later for the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.

They met through poker. Kristen was already a two-time bracelet winner when they began dating, which counters the “sidekick” framing some observers have applied.

The couple sit alongside Jennifer Tilly and Phil Laak, and Liv Boeree and Igor Kurganov, in our guide to poker’s best-known power couples. Their combined live earnings top $78 million, and no children have been reported.

Life in Las Vegas away from the table

Foxen lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, and her social media centres on poker results, coaching and her WePoker ambassadorship. She accepted her Women in Poker Hall of Fame induction by video while playing WSOP Paradise.

Foxen finished the Las Vegas leg of WSOP 2026 with seven cashes worth $2,058,238. The headline came on June 7, when she won the $25,000 High Roller (Event #19) for $1,773,083 and a record sixth bracelet.

That single summer accounted for 10.7% of her career tracked earnings. Alex Foxen won his fourth bracelet in the same series, making them the first married couple to win WSOP bracelets in the same summer. Read the full report on her sixth bracelet win.

April 2026 brought a second U.S. Poker Open title, Event #4 for $198,000, followed by a runner-up finish for $264,000. Across the twelve months from September 2025, four seven-figure cashes brought in $5,365,083, or 27.9% of her career total.

Away from the felt, GPI confirmed her fifth Female Player of the Year title in January 2026, and she remains a WePoker ambassador. Our poker news and tournament results coverage follows the WSOP and Triton series she plays.

This player profile separates verifiable facts from estimates and public claims. We cannot accurately calculate any player’s net worth, but we aim to publish transparent, verifiable information.

How we handle ‘net worth’

We do not treat any net worth figure as fact. Third-party estimates are reported with their source and caveats. Where no credible methodology is disclosed, we say so.

Foxen’s range is our estimate, built from her tracked cashes, high-roller buy-ins, backing and her coaching and ambassador income. Private cash game results and staking splits are the two largest unknowns.

How we report earnings

Tournament earnings figures come from The Hendon Mob, which tracks live results only. Databases that also fold in online results publish higher totals, and we say so rather than blending the two.

All figures are gross payouts before buy-ins, staking splits, taxes, and expenses. We update earnings after each major series.

How we cover controversies

We report what was alleged, what the player said in response, and where the matter stands. We do not take sides.

Where claims were investigated, we note the outcome. Where no evidence was presented, we say so. The vaccine mandate, softplaying, and ghosting sections above follow this approach.