Alex Foxen is on top of the 2026 WSOP Player of the Year leaderboard, ahead of Nick Schulman, and went into Thursday night second in chips with 15 players left in Event #47: $25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha. First place pays $2,161,056. A win cracks $60 million on his Hendon Mob.
Per PokerNews, Foxen spent most of the day with the chip lead in the $25K PLO before settling into second. The key hand on the way down to 15 was an early-session pot against Daniel Negreanu, where Foxen rivered a flush to crack Negreanu's flopped set of kings. That single board took the GGPoker ambassador out of the bracket and pushed the ACR Poker patch deeper into Day 3.
The household scoreboard
The Foxen household has 10 combined WSOP bracelets, with Kristen Foxen on six and Alex on four. Both have already won bracelets at the 2026 Series. PokerNews flagged that the household number could climb to 12 by Friday: Kristen ended Thursday near the top of the Event #51 $10,000 Mystery Bounty chip counts, and Alex sat second in the PLO. Two parallel finals on the same day, two bracelets potentially home.
What this does for ACR
Foxen joined ACR Poker's Pro Team in May 2026. The deal was pitched on credibility. Three weeks later he is sitting on the POY leaderboard, the $25K PLO bracket, and the Hustler Casino Live cash game stream that goes on Friday night. ACR's bet on a credibility-first ambassador is paying out faster than any 2026 ambassador signing this Series.
It's surprisingly normal, these types of spots... Kristen knows what to do. I'm just trying to play my best.
Alex Foxen (paraphrased from a post-victory press chat)
The Hustler night
Friday night on Hustler Casino Live, the high-stakes stream is expected to add Foxen, Ethan "Rampage" Yau and Nik Airball to the lineup. If Foxen runs the PLO final deep enough, he becomes a late entry. Either way the ACR Poker patch will be on a different stream within the same 24-hour window.
What's next
The $25K PLO High Roller plays the final on Thursday night, with the Mystery Bounty wrapping Friday. We'll update the Foxen profile and the Foxen POY tracking as the result comes in.
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