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 total $19,235,650 across 300 cashes. She sits atop the women’s all-time money list with a lead of roughly $7.3 million over Vanessa Selbst.

This profile separates what’s verifiable from what’s estimated. Foxen’s tracked results are public record, but net worth figures found online carry no disclosed methodology. We cite the source and the snapshot date 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 not publicly confirmed. The most commonly cited third-party estimate places it between $5 million and $10 million. Nobody outside Foxen’s inner circle knows the real number.

What we can do is show what’s verifiable, explain where the popular estimates come from, and break down why gross tournament earnings never equal take-home wealth.

Net worth estimates and why they vary

A handful of poker media outlets and biography sites publish “Kristen Foxen net worth” figures, but none explain how they arrive at their numbers. Here is what the landscape looks like:

The $5M to $10M range reflects that gross payouts are not profit. Buy-ins, staking splits, travel, taxes, and coaching expenses eat into Foxen’s ~$19M in tracked cashes. The estimate is a rough ballpark at best.

What we can verify: tracked live tournament earnings

Foxen’s tracked live tournament earnings total $19,235,650 across 300 recorded cashes, per The Hendon Mob as of 28 July 2026. That figure is real, publicly 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 and 5th in Canada. She overtook Vanessa Selbst’s career total in September 2025 to become the highest-earning female tournament player ever.

Her lead now sits at roughly $7.3 million.

The missing piece: staking, coaching, and sponsorships

The reason Foxen’s net worth is difficult to pin down comes down to five factors that are impossible to verify from the outside:

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. The $356,412 at row 8 is an online result included in overall totals. In a strictly live-cash ranking, it would drop off.

WSOP bracelet results

Foxen holds six WSOP bracelets, all in no-limit hold’em. That is twice as many as any other woman.

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 2024 online win made her the first woman with five bracelets. The 2026 win made her the first with six. It was also 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 Chavero 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 K♦ 9♣ 8♦ 5♥ 2♣ to change nothing.

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

The win lifted her to 2nd in the Card Player Player of the Year race as of June 2026.

Triton Poker: three seven-figure cashes in twelve months

Foxen has 16+ cashes on the Triton Poker circuit. Three of those reached seven figures between September 2025 and May 2026.

The September 2025 result cemented her position atop the women’s all-time money list. 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. The fold sparked wide debate across poker media and remains one of the most discussed hands of 2026.

PokerGO Tour dominance

Foxen is one of the most active players on the PokerGO Tour circuit. Her PGT titles include the PGT Kickoff Event #5 in both 2024 ($165,000) and 2025 ($197,625), the 2025 PokerGO Cup Event #7 ($348,300), and the 2025 U.S. Poker Open Event #1 ($158,025).

She added a second U.S. Poker Open title in April 2026, winning Event #4 for $198,000. A week later she finished runner-up in the series finale for $264,000.

Her 2026 season stands at 11 cashes, two wins and $2,582,255 in PGT earnings. That puts her 6th on the 2026 PGT leaderboard with 1,408 points, behind leader Eelis Parssinen on 1,799.

WPT and other notable wins

Foxen’s WPT record includes a win at the 2017 WPT Five Diamond Series Event #13 ($199,840 at the Bellagio). She has not won a WPT Championship title.

Other career highlights: the 2018 APPT National High Roller in Macau ($279,549, beating David Peters heads-up) and the 2019 Poker Masters $25K title ($408,000, beating Chance Kornuth heads-up). The Poker Masters win made her the first woman to win a Poker Masters event.

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 playing approximately 2.5 million hands per year. One secondary source estimates she logged 7.5 million+ hands across those three years combined.

Her primary stakes were $1/$2 to $2/$4 cash games, running as many as 24 tables at once. The volume was extreme but deliberate. 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. The decision paid off within months.

Online bracelets and screen names

Three of Foxen’s six WSOP bracelets came from online events. The 2020 bracelet was won on GGPoker during the pandemic-era online series. The 2023 and 2024 bracelets were both won in WSOP Online events.

For the 2024 win she played under the screen name “Saraswati”. The complete bracelet details, including prizes, are listed in the Career Earnings section above.

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.

Early life and the road to poker

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.

She enrolled at Carleton University in Ottawa around 2005 to study criminology. By the time her online cash game earnings cleared six figures, she left university to play full time. The Supernova Elite years that followed are covered in the Online Poker Career section above.

2013 to 2016: first two bracelets and the live pivot

Foxen won her first WSOP bracelet in 2013 in the $1,000 Ladies Championship. It was her first major live result after years of online grinding.

Three years later she took down the 2016 $1,500 NLH Bounty for her second bracelet. The win signalled her shift from online volume player 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: three consecutive titles.

Key results during this run: the 2017 WPT Five Diamond win at the Bellagio, the 2018 APPT National High Roller in Macau, and the 2019 Poker Masters $25K title.

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, both Foxen and husband and four-time bracelet winner Alex Foxen were vocal opponents of the WSOP’s vaccine mandate, calling for a boycott. The controversy is covered in the Controversies section below.

She married Alex Foxen in April 2022 in a small ceremony in the Florida Keys. Days later the couple was back at the felt for the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.

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 final table 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.

Volume-built pattern recognition

Running up to 24 tables simultaneously for three years gave Foxen a speed of pattern recognition that most live-only players take a decade to develop. She has described the online grind as compressing years of experience into months.

At the table she is known for relentless attentiveness. A coaching student described her as “a hawk.”

She rarely uses her phone during hands and maintains 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 is a no-limit hold’em specialist. All six of her WSOP bracelets are in NLHE. She now 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. But her elite results are concentrated in NLHE tournaments, and that is where she continues to focus.

The mindset shift: playing without fear

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 at the WSOP 2026 High Roller final table, 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 GPI Female Player of the Year award five times: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, and 2025. No other woman has won it more than twice.

The 2025 title was her most dominant. The 700-point gap over Andrews was the largest winning margin in the award’s recent history. 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).

The closest challenger in 2017 was fellow tournament regular Maria Ho, who finished runner-up in that GPI race and remains one of the most consistent female tournament players. Vanessa Selbst held the women’s earnings record from her January 2018 retirement until Foxen passed her in September 2025.

The Global Poker Awards ceremony was cancelled for 2026, though GPI rankings continued to publish. Foxen’s combined bracelet, earnings, and POY records make her the strongest statistical case for the most accomplished female tournament player in poker history.

Beyond her own results, Foxen coaches other tournament players. She is part of the instruction team at Chip Leader Coaching and takes private students alongside her playing schedule.

What is Chip Leader Coaching?

Chip Leader Coaching (CLC) is an MTT training programme founded by Chance Kornuth and Alex Foxen. Foxen features in the CLC Inner Circle group-coaching programme and offers one-on-one sessions through her own coaching contact.

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. Her Instagram bio lists “Coach @clcpoker.”

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.

Alex tweeted that it was “really unfortunate to see the WSOP become the next arm of pharmaceutical influence.” Kristen publicly echoed anti-mandate views. Critics including Vanessa Kade challenged their position. Max Silver accused Alex of using the campaign to promote a poker-tracking app.

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 Foxen won her third bracelet in the 2020 WSOP Online series, 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. That counters the “sidekick” framing that some observers have applied.

The couple are described as poker’s premier “power couple,” alongside Jennifer Tilly and Phil Laak, and Liv Boeree and Igor Kurganov in our poker power couples guide. Their combined live earnings top $78 million. No children have been reported as of July 2026.

Life away from the table

Foxen lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. She keeps her personal life relatively private compared to her public poker presence.

Her social media activity centres on poker results, coaching, and her WePoker ambassadorship. She was inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame in December 2024, accepting the honour via 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. She sits 6th on the 2026 PGT leaderboard.

Four seven-figure cashes in twelve months brought in $5,365,083, or 27.9% of her career total.

Away from the felt she was inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame in December 2024 alongside Jeanne David. She won her fifth GPI Female Player of the Year title in 2025 and remains a WePoker ambassador.

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 $5M to $10M range comes from 888poker and poker media. We present it as an estimate, not a confirmed figure.

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.

The sources below were used in researching this profile. Social media links are included for verification and attribution.