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Kristen Foxen Wins Event #4 at the 2026 U.S. Poker Open for $198,000

16 Apr 2026

Samantha Doyle 16 Apr 2026

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Kristen Foxen wins Event #4 at 2026 U.S. Poker Open, pocketing $198,000.
Foxen outlasted Jeremy Ausmus in heads-up to secure her fifth PokerGO Tour title.
Foxen’s victory adds to a decorated career, with over $15.1 million in live tournament earnings.

On Wednesday night, Kristen Foxen added another major title to her already stacked résumé. Seated at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas, she took down Event #4: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em at the 2026 U.S. Poker Open. To do so, the Canadian pro outlasted a 66-entry field and picked up $198,000 for the win along the way.

In case anyone was counting, this is Foxen’s fifth career PokerGO Tour title and her first PGT win of the 2026 season. This moves her into fourth place on the U.S. Poker Open leaderboard, which is starting to take shape now that the series is getting into its rhythm.

Foxen Had Work to Do Against Jeremy Ausmus

Jeremy Ausmus came into Day 2 in a commanding position. He held nearly half the chips in play and had already built his stack by knocking out several names on Day 1, including Alex Foxen and Jesse Lonis.

At the start of the final day, Ausmus had 135 big blinds while Foxen sat on 44, so this wasn’t a case of someone coasting into a title from the top of the counts. She had ground to make up, and plenty of it.

The field began to thin when Michael Rossitto went out in fifth place. His ace-nine suited ran into Sam Soverel’s king-ten, and a Broadway flop ended his second final-table run of the series.

Brock Wilson followed in fourth. He got his chips in with king-ten against Soverel’s ace-four, but the board ran clean for ace-high, bringing his climb up the series standings to a halt.

The Three-Handed Turning Point

Foxen’s tournament really turned a corner once play got down to three-handed.

In the pivotal hand, she found a double through Ausmus after getting aggressive with an open-ended straight draw against his top pair. She check-raised the flop, turned the straight, and got full value by the river. Just like that, the momentum shifted and the chip lead changed hands.

That hand left Ausmus on the back foot and gave Foxen the breathing room she needed.

Soverel was the next player out. He fired a bluff with a missed straight draw, only for Ausmus to pick him off with an overpair. Although Soverel managed one short-stack double after that, his run ended soon after when his king-five couldn’t catch up to Ausmus’s ace-nine.

Foxen Finishes the Job Heads-Up

Heads-up play started with Foxen holding a 4.5 million to 3.7 million lead, and she wasted very little time leaning on it. One early pot, won with ace-high against a busted straight draw, pushed her edge to roughly three-to-one.

Ausmus, to his credit, didn’t go anywhere. He worked his way back into the match and at one point pulled things level again after rivering a four-flush in a big pot.

Still, the final hand belonged to Foxen.

Both players woke up with pocket pairs. Ausmus held nines, but Foxen’s pocket sixes improved to a set on the flop. By the river, all the chips went in, and Foxen’s set held up to seal the title and the $198,000 first-place prize.

Event #4 Final Table Results

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Kristen Foxen	Canada	$198,000
2	Jeremy Ausmus	United States	$128,700
3	Sam Soverel	United States	$89,100
4	Brock Wilson	United States	$66,000
5	Michael Rossitto	United States	$49,500
6	Brandon Wilson	United States	$36,300
7	Nate Silver	United States	$26,400

Another Big Result for One of the Tour’s Best

Foxen now owns five PokerGO Tour titles and has built one of the strongest records of any player regularly competing in these high-stakes fields. Across 45 PGT cashes and 18 final tables, she has piled up more than $4.1 million in PokerGO Tour earnings alone.

Outside the tour, her overall résumé is even more ridiculous in the most matter-of-fact poker sense possible. She has five WSOP bracelets, more than $15.1 million in live tournament earnings, and sits at the top of the women’s all-time money list.

Before becoming a regular presence in elite field after elite field, Foxen built her reputation online, reaching Supernova Elite status on PokerStars in three straight years from 2011 to 2013.

Since then, she has collected major results across the WSOP, WPT, and PGT, while also earning five GPI Female Player of the Year honors. In 2024, she was inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame.