Alex Foxen Wins Super Turbo Event for Fourth Bracelet in Las Vegas

The final table of the $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty event at this year’s WSOP came down to two dominant Americans and one determined Chinese newcomer. The event, which started and ended on the same day, saw 466 total entries as players from all over the world battled in a Super Turbo Bounty format as Alex Foxen claimed the top prize of $594,246 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Rapid Fire Format

There were a massive 466 total entries in the $10,00 buy-in Super Turbo Bounty Event #44 in Las Vegas, with 70 places being paid. Some of the $4,333,800 prizepool was won by the six-time bracelet winner Josh Arieh (42^nd for $14,380), the controversial Czech character Martin Kabrhel (21^st for $22,601) and Jovan Kenjic, who bubbled the final nine with a score of $34,112 in 10^th place.

The first player to depart the final table of nine was the Frenchman Adrien Delmas, who busted in ninth place for $43,254. All-in with ace-king, he was a big favorite to double-up through Alex Foxen’s ace-queen. That was until a flop of Q-J-8 put the American in the lead. A five on the turn changed nothing for Delmas and he was drawing to just three outs on the river, none of which came when another queen confirmed his elimination.

Next to go was the British player Jamie Dwan, who cashed for $55,985 when his ace-ten was unable to overtake Sergio Martinez Gonzalez’ pocket jacks. A vocal British rail cheered loudly for an ace and they got one on the flop, but it came with a jack and after an innocuous four on the turn, the Spanish player extinguished Dwan’s hopes when a king on the river gave Gonzalez a full house.

Zamani Goes from Hero to Zero

With seven players left, there were two super turbo style eliminations. Harvey Castro moved all-in with queen-eight from the button and was snuffed out by Martin Zamani, whose ace-nine won the all-American clash to reduce the field to six and send Castro to the rail with $73,933. Then Gonzalez met his end, as his ace-jack was usurped by Foxen’s ace-eight of hearts, three more hearts coming on the board to send the Spaniard home in sixth for $99,578 with his head spinning.

Ukrainian Nazar Buhaiov won $136,737 in fifth place when his pocket aces were all-in and at risk on a flop of T-9-8. Buhaiov was still ahead, but Alex Foxen’s eight-seven had bottom pair and an open-ender. The nine on the turn gave both men two pair, with Foxen still needing help, but an eight on the river was exactly that as the eventual winner improved to a full house.

Martin Zamani had joined Foxen in eliminating some of the others at the final table felt but walked into a cold deck himself to depart in fourth for $191,357. All-in pre-flop with ace-king, Zamani must have thought that he had the best of it, but he had walked into pocket aces and Foxen’s rockets held up to send Zamani to the rail just outside the podium places.

Foxen Makes Poker History

With three players left, Alex Foxen was pushing on to greatness with seemingly no-one able to stop him. Cedric Schwaederle’s shove with eight-seven ran into Foxen’s queen-nine and again the American held with ease to send play heads-up, as the Frenchman departed with a third-place score of $272,824.

Down to the final two, Foxen had a huge lead, with his stack of 24.55 million way clear of Chinese player Yixi Tang’s pile of just 3.2 million chips. That all changed pretty quickly, however, as the eventual runner-up went on the attack. With nothing to lose and everything to gain, he played relentless, fearless poker and not only drew close to Foxen after a fortunate double-up with ten-seven but then had the temerity to take the lead when two-pair beat Foxen’s missed flush draw.

Foxen, now behind, had lost all the momentum but got it back in two vital hands. First, he hero-called with a pair of sixes after Tang had bluffed on the river. Then, Tang turned a pair of sixes but Foxen then rivered a pair of tens and again won an important pot. Two more without showdown built back the majority of the lead Foxen had held when the final duel began, but Tang fought back again, getting there when his double-gutter toppled Foxen’s aces.

The Chinese player was still behind his more decorated opponent and while both men enjoyed a short break, it was Foxen who clearly made the most of it. Tang shoved all-in with just queen-three after the two men returned, and Foxen snapped it off with king-six. Initially, the board looked like it wouldn’t favor the call, as a flop of Q-T-4 paired the Chinese player’s hand. But a king landed on fourth street and after Foxen, faded the river, he was a four-time WSOP champion, claiming the $594,246 top prize as Tang walked away with $396,145.

The Champion in his Own Words

“It’s a piece of the body of work, so I’m proud of it.” – Alex Foxen, four-time WSOP champion.

It is four years since Alex Foxen won the first of his four WSOP titles, when he took down the 2022 $250,000 Super High Roller for a career-high score of $4.56 million. In 2024, he won both the WSOP Online $500 PLO Mystery Bounty 6-Max event for $20,064 and the $100,000 Triton No-Limit Hold’em Main Event for $3.85 million during the same summer.

With Foxen now adding another in the form of this Super Turbo Bounty win, here are all four of his WSOP bracelet victories.

Asked whether this was the most important win of his career after the event, Foxen told

PokerNews that success was more about his career as a whole.

“I think your career is really about repeated performance and an entire body of work, rather than one event – proving something,” he said. “This doesn’t feel like to me as much the one that would do that, but it’s a piece of the body of work, so I’m proud of it.”

The Foxens have arguably been the standout players in the opening weeks of the 2026 World Series of Poker, with Kristen Foxen winning her sixth bracelet in the $25,000 High Roller event a week ago and the husband and wife team collectively banking over $3.3 million in prize money

“It feels great. [We’re] super fortunate for how we started out this summer,” said Alex Foxen after this latest family triumph. “It’s definitely extra special to have it happen at the WSOP in the wake of Krissy having a big win.”