Tag: Alex Foxen

Tuesday.

It’s not a day that punctuates the heart.

It’s no Saturday.

It’s no Sunday.

Except, it has become a day that high rollers look forward to thanks to partypoker and the High Roller Club.

This Tuesday, there was only one change in the top five spots on the High Roller Club Leaderboard, but it was a significant one.

Rok Gostisa now leads the race after taking down the 28-entrant, $2,600, $75k GTD event, beating Jans Arends in heads-up action. The Slovenian holds an 82-point lead over Alex Foxen after the American failed to make the money in successive High Roller Club nights of action.

Another player who continues to challenge at the top is Artur Martirosian. The Russian finished runner-up to Julius Schamberg in the $5k and finished eighth in the $530 game.

Schamberg had a sterling evening, winning both the $5k and $1k events. Thomas Muehloecker also faired well, finishing third in the $5k, $2.5k and the $530 game. Raul Martinez Gallego also had a fabulous night finishing second in the $1k and $530 games.

Here are the results in full.

$5,200, $150k GTD

28-entrants

Results

  1. Julius Schamberg – $69,000
  2. Artur Martirosian – $42,000
  3. Thomas Muehloecker – $27,000
  4. Simon Trumper – $12,000

$2,600, $75k GTD

28-entrants

Results

  1. Rok Gostisa – $33,750
  2. Jans Arends – $22,105.20
  3. Thomas Muehloecker – $11,250
  4. Teun Mulder – $7,894.80

$1,050, $50k GTD Mix-Max Warm-Up

53-entrants

Results

  1. Julius Schamburg – $21,200.01
  2. Raul Martinez Gallego – $13,565.08
  3. Arseniy Malinov – $6,890
  4. Allan Berger – $4,770
  5. Barry Hutter – $3,710
  6. David Szep – $2,864.91

$530, $25k GTD 6-Max Turbo Knockout

64-entrants

Results

  1. Juan Carlos Vecho – $5,542.97+$4,166.92
  2. Raul Martinze Gallego – $1,906.25+$4,163.68
  3. Thomas Meuhloecker – $843.75+$2,221.48
  4. Karl-Joonatan Mets – $1,042.97+$1,666.11
  5. Teun Mulder – $625+$1,203.30
  6. Leon Van Stratem – $625+$833.05
  7. Tyler Goatcher – $937.50+$581.82
  8. Artur Martirosian – $125+$581.82

Leaderboard

  1. Rok Gostisa – 1613
  2. Alex Foxen – 1531
  3. Artur Martirosian – 1457
  4. Wiktor Malinowski – 1235
  5. Ali Imsirovic – 1081

Payouts

  1. $30,000
  2. $20,000
  3. $10,000
  4. $8,000
  5. $6,000
  6. $4,000

7-8 – $3,000
9-10 – $2,000
11-14 – $1,500
15-20 – $1,000

The High Roller Club ends on 16th July.

The ventilation around Alex Foxen’s airspace at the top of partypoker’s High Roller Leaderboard became a little frosty on Sunday night. The partypoker High Roller Leaderboard leader failed to feature in the final stages of any of the three games that took place on the day where God slipped a pipe into his mouth and donned those fluffy bunny rabbit slippers.

Foxen’s lack of partisanship with the in the money (ITM) finishes allowed Rok Gostisa to close the gap at the top after finishing sixth in the $10k, an event that Stephen Chidwick won for $176,000, the first sighting of the UK All-Time Money Leader at the top of a podium since lockdown.

Russia’s finest, Artur Martirosian, made things a little cramped in the top three after finishing third in the $25k, and fourth in the $530 event. Wiktor Malinowski sits in fourth after a fifth-place finish in the $10k, and after winning the $25k, Ali Imsirovic moves into fifth place.

Here are the results in full.

$25,500, $750k GTD Main Event

38-entrants

Results

  1. Ali Imsirovic – $387,125
  2. Rob Yong – $251,750
  3. Artur Martirosian – $156,750
  4. Michael Addamo – $95,000
  5. Daniel Dvoress – $59,375

$10,300, $300k GTD Mix-Max 2nd Chance

44-entrants

Results

  1. Stephen Chidwick – $176,000
  2. Dan Shak – $112,615.80
  3. Jake Schindler – $57,200
  4. Timothy Adams – $39,600
  5. Wiktor Malinowski – $30,800
  6. Rok Gostisa – $23,784.20

$530, $50k GTD 6-Max Turbo Knockout

114-entrants

Results

  1. Raul Martinez Gallego – $7,847.66+$5,459.38
  2. Jelle Moene – $1,261.72+$5,453.60
  3. Georgios Zisimopoulos – $1,460.94+$5,453.60
  4. Artur Martirosian – $1,375+$2,728.22
  5. Sergei Denisov – $1,062.50+$2,006.04
  6. Miguel Seoane Iglesias – $2,523.44+$1,332.01
  7. Tyler Goatcher – $312.50+$897.50
  8. Chad Eveslage – $897.75

Leaderboard

  1. Alex Foxen – 1531
  2. Rok Gostisa – 1458
  3. Artur Martorisian – 1296
  4. Wiktor Malinowski – 1235
  5. Ali Imsirovic – 1081
Alex Foxen

If he keeps this up, we will be adding the words ‘Alex Fioxen’ into sentences containing the word ‘divination.’

Foxen won two more High Roller Club titles during Thursday night’s squabbles on partypoker. Included in his haul was the title in the $10k Main Event for $163,400, and the win in a $1k for another $20,000. Foxen also bubbled the $530, $25k GTD Mix-Max Turbo Knockout.

Rok Gostica started the day as the only other player to earn 1,000+ points on the High Roller leaderboard, and the best the Slovenian could do in response was a fourth-place finish in the $10k.

Sticking with the Top 5, and neither Timothy Adams nor Luke Reeves featured in the money (ITM) during Thursday night’s events, but Artur Martirosian did, finishing sixth in the $5k, and fourth and second in the two $1k games.

It was also a superb night for Roberto Romanello and Ali Imsirovic. Romanello finished runner-up to Foxen in the $10k and finished third in the $1k. Imsirovic came second to Wiktor Malinowski in the $5k and won the $1k. Malinowski continued his decent showing finishing third in the $10k.

Here are the results in full.

$10,300, $400k GTD Main Event

43-entrants

Results

  1. Alex Foxen – $163,400
  2. Roberto Romanello – $107,500
  3. Wiktor Malinowski – $68,500
  4. Rok Gostisa – $38,700
  5. Daniel Dvoress – $30,100
  6. Vyacheslav Buldygin – $21,500

$5,200, $150k GTD 6-Max 2nd Chance

38-entrants

Results

  1. Wiktor Malinowski – $76,000
  2. Ali Imsirovic – $48,629.55
  3. Mikita Badziakouski – $24,700
  4. Sami Kelopuro – $17,100
  5. Sam Greenwood – $13,300
  6. Artur Martirosian – $10,270.45

$1,050 6-Max Warm-Up

48-entrants

Results

  1. Alex Foxen – $20,000
  2. Artur Martirosian – $12,797.25
  3. Tyler Goatcher – $6,500
  4. Rob Yong – $4,500
  5. Teun Mulder – $3,500
  6. Raul Martinez Gallego – $2,702.75

$1,050, $50k GTD Mix-Max Knockout

41-entrants

Results

  1. Ali Imsirovic – $8,218.75+$8,824.08
  2. Barry Hutter – $2,781.25+$8,818.15
  3. Roberto Romanello – $875+$4,480.42
  4. Artur Martirosian – $1,375+$3,101.83
  5. Georgios Zisimipoulos – $1,437.50+$2,412.53
  6. Niklas Astedt – $1,562.50+$1,862.99

$530, $25k GTD Mix-Max Turbo Knockout

49-entrants

Results

  1. Benjamin Kopp – $6,718.75+$3,813.81
  2. Mateusz Hajman – $437.50+$3,811.23
  3. Alexander Harty – $625+$1,936.45
  4. Kwansoo Lee – $343.75+$1,340.62
  5. Patrick Truschkowski – $125+$1,042.70
  6. Aleksejs Meless – $625+$805.19
Alex Foxen

partypoker’s High Roller Club continued unabated on Tuesday night, and once again the Global Poker Index (GPI) World #1, glued his perpetual perfection onto the results page.

Alex Foxen took down the 49-entrant $1,050, $50k GTD Mix-Max Warm-Up for $20,000, and finished runner-up to Andras Nemeth in the $1,050 6-Max Knockout.

Only one other player exceeds the 1,000 point mark on the leaderboard. Rok Gostisa finished fifth in the $1,050 Mix-Max, fourth in the $2,600 Mix-Max, and sixth in the $530 6-Max Turbo Knockout. The Slovenian trails Foxen by 39-points.

Breaking into the top five is Artur Martirosian, winning the 40-entrant $5,000, $200k GTD Main Event for $81,500, beating Rob Yong, heads-up. The Russian also featured on the final table of the $1,050 Mix-Mix, finishing third.

Here are the results in full.

$5,000, $200k GTD Main Event

40-entrants

Results

  1. Artur Martirosian – $81,500
  2. Rob Yong – $53,000
  3. Joao Vieira – $33,000
  4. Timothy Adams – $20,000
  5. Jans Arends – $12,500

$2,600, $75k GTD Mix-Max 2nd Chance

32-entrants

Results

  1. Vyacheslav Buldygin – $36,000
  2. Ali Imsirovic – $23,578.88
  3. Niklas Astedt – $12,000
  4. Rok Gostisa – $8,421.12

$1,050, $50k GTD 6-Max Knockout

50-entrants

Results

  1. Andras Nemeth – $12,812.50+$7,478.03
  2. Alex Foxen – $250+$7,473
  3. Alejandro Muriel – $1,687.50+$3,796.97
  4. Ivan Gabrieli – $750+$2,628.67
  5. Jans Arends – $1,187.50+$2,044.52
  6. Simon Mattsson – $1,625+$1,578.81

$1,050, $50k GTD Mix-Max Warm-Up

49-entrants

Results

  1. Alex Foxen – $20,000
  2. Barry Hutter – $12,797.25
  3. Artur Martirosian – $6,500
  4. Mark Davis – $4,500
  5. Rok Gostisa – $3,500
  6. Tuen Mulder – $2,702.75

$530, $25k GTD 6-Max Turbo Knockout

44-entrants

Results

  1. Tyler Goatcher – $4,312.50+$4,187.71
  2. Arsenii Karmatckii – $2,312.50+$4,184.88
  3. Preben Stokkan – $1,125+$2,126.30
  4. Sergii Denisov – $625+$1,472.05
  5. Guillermo Gordo – $1,125+$1,144.93
  6. Rok Gostisa – $250+$884.13

Leaderboard

  1. Alex Foxen – 1197
  2. Rok Gostisa – 1158
  3. Timothy Adams – 922
  4. Luke Reeves – 899
  5. Artur Martirosian – 885

You won’t find the name of the man who leads partypoker’s High Roller Leaderboard in any of the soon-to-be reported results. Luckily, for Alex Foxen, none of his pursuers took full advantage of his absence.

Three of the top five did gain ground on Foxen on Sunday.

Rok Gostisa closed the gap at the top to ten points after finishing third in a $1k for $9,750, and Juan Pardo Dominguez and Timothy Adams also inched closer with a third and a fourth-place finish in the $10k Mix-Max. Luke Reeves, who rounds out the top five, didn’t feature in the money (ITM) in Sunday’s events.

Nick Petrangelo was one of the biggest winners on the day taking down the 31-entrant $25,500 Main Event for $356,500. Michael Addamo, Christoph Vogelsang and Jake Schindler also finished ITM with Adrian Mateos bubbling.

Other Sunday High Roller winners include Isaac Haxton, Joel Nystedt, Aleksejs Ponakovs, and Andrea Panarese.

Here are the results in full.

$25,500, $750k GTD Main Event

31-entrants

Results

  1. Nick Petrangelo – $356,500
  2. Michael Addamo – $217,000
  3. Christoph Vogelsang – $139,500
  4. Jake Schindler – $62,000

$10,300, $300k GTD Mix-Max 2nd Chance

46-entrants

Results

  1. Isaac Haxton – $184,000
  2. Niklas Astedt – $117,734.70
  3. Juan Pardo Dominguez – $59,800
  4. Timothy Adams – $41,400
  5. Wiktor Malinowski – $32,300
  6. Fedor Holz – $24,865.30

$1,050, $100k GTD

107-entrants

Results

  1. Joel Nystedt – $17,765.63+$13,107.50
  2. Georgios Zisimopoulos – $2,828.12+$9,362.50
  3. Rok Gostica – $3,062.50+$6,687.50
  4. Thomas Meuhloecker – $4,625+$4,681.25
  5. Tomi Brouk – $2,125+$3,477.50
  6. Istvan Habencius – $1,312.50+$2,675
  7. Robert Finch – $2,562.50+$2,140

$530, $200k Mini Big Game

492-entrants

Results

  1. Aleksejs Ponakovs – $39,472.51
  2. Alexandre Reard – $38,911.33
  3. Dennys Ramos – $22,346.80
  4. Alexandros Theologis – $15,545.60
  5. Joao Ferreira Caetano – $11,027.66
  6. Julien Perouse – $8,015.70
  7. Alberto Meran – $5,708.15
  8. Christian Rudolph – $4,129.30

$530, $50k GTD Turbo Knockout

129-entrants

Results

  1. Andrea Panarese – $9,937.52+$7,414.32
  2. Raul Martinez Gallego – $3,250+$5,312.25
  3. Hristivoje Pavlovic – $2,140.62+$3,870
  4. Sami Kelopuro – $500+$2,741.25
  5. Richard Bell – $125+$1,935
  6. Chris Johnson – $1,749.99+$1,531.87
  7. Anton Nahorniak – $1,546.87+$1,219.05
  8. Chad Eveslage – $1,500+$967.50

Leaderboard Results

  1. Alex Foxen – 1012 pts
  2. Rok Gostisa – 1002
  3. Luke Reeves – 899
  4. Juan Pardo Dominguez – 831
  5. Timothy Adams – 827

Hedonism is whatever turns you on, and for some, that’s the hardscrabble grind of online poker multi-table tournaments (MTTs) – the very form of indulgence that Alex Foxen enjoys.

The man many would vote as the hardest working high stakes online MTT grinder in the biz spent Thursday night creating a heatwave in the High Roller Club on partypoker.

Foxen licked the 42-entrant field in the $10,300, $400k High Roller Main Event for $159,600. The triumph is Foxen’s third High Roller Club title of the week, after winning two on Tuesday night. Foxen also made the final table of the $5k (3rd) and the $530 (5th) concluding a fantastic evening.

Viktor Blom was the last man seated in Foxen’s $10k win. The Swede also made the final table of the $5k (6th) to continue his resurgence in high stakes online MTTs, and his compatriot and former PocketFives World #1 Nikas Astedt also featured in two final tables, finishing 6th in the $10k and 3rd in the $1k.

Winners on the night include Sam Greenwood taking down the 40-entrant $5k for $80,000, Ivan Gabrieli winning the 47-entrant $1k for $16,614.21, and Andrey Kotelnikov for outlasting the 51-entrant field in the $530 for – $8,345.06.

Here are the results in full.

$10,300, $400k Main Event

42-entrants

Results

  1. Alex Foxen – $159,600
  2. Viktor Blom – $105,000
  3. Alexandros Kolonias – $67,200
  4. Wiktor Malinowski – $37,800
  5. Mike Watson – $29,400
  6. Niklas Astedt – $21,000

$5,200, $150k 6-Max Second Chance

40-entrants

Results

  1. Sam Greenwood – $80,000
  2. Sami Kelopuro – $51,189
  3. Alex Foxen – $26,000
  4. Isaac Haxton – $18,000
  5. Eelis Parssinen – $14,000
  6. Viktor Blom – $10,811

$1,050, $50k Mix-Max

47-entrants

Results

  1. Ivan Gabrieli – $8,687.50+$7,926.71
  2. Andrejs Litvinenko – $1,312.50+$7,921.39
  3. Niklas Astedt – $656.25+$4,024.79
  4. Kristen Bicknell – $1,718.75+$2,786.39
  5. Preben Stokken – $2,437.50+$2,167.19
  6. Roberto Romanello – $250+$1,673.53

$530, $25k Mix-Max Turbo

51-entrants

Results

  1. Andrey Kotelnikov – $4,531.25+$3,813.81
  2. Boris Kolev – $2,656.25+$3,811.23
  3. Oleg Vasylchenko – $250+$1,936.45
  4. Valentino Sibilla – $750+$1,340.62
  5. Alex Foxen – $875+$1,042.70
  6. Alex Reard – $125+$805.19

If you have spent the past month knocking back Kingfishers from the carcasses of coconuts while grinding the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Online Series at GGPoker, then there will be a funereal gloominess about you, today.

It’s over, for now.

While I am positive that this event will clone itself like a sea anemone, GGPoker continues to melt high roller hearts, WSOP or no WSOP.

The final event of the WSOPC created one of the most substantial prizes on the Internet this week. Of the 9,291-entrants who made the perilous journey through the misty mountains of Day 1 of the $1,000 buy-in, $5m GTD WSOPC Main Event, 1.494 made it through to Day 2, by which time the $9,291,000 prize pool dwarfed the $5m guarantee.

The winner hailed from Germany.

‘schimmelgodx’ collected $1,271,217.69 after beating ‘Biereux’ in heads-up action. Juan Pardo Dominguez went deeper than any other high roller, finishing fourth for $430,022.47, and these stars of the top strata followed him: Artur Martirosian (12th), Alexandros Kolonias (19th), Joao Vieira (31st), and Daniel Dvoress (32nd).

Here are the results

Results

  1. schimmelgodx – $1,271,217.69
  2. Biereux – $885,746.81
  3. Igutu – $617,164.03
  4. Juan Pardo Dominguez – $430,022.47
  5. TepuseenFD – $299,627.33
  6. CoRoNaTi – $208,771.57
  7. MaillouL – $145,466.38
  8. wy77 – $101,356.30

Before, during and after this magnificent moment, GGPoker kept churning out the high roller action like London horizons churn out cumulus.

Isaac Haxton took down the most significant chunk of change, topping a 60-entrant field in a $25,000 No Limit Hold’em event for $456,764.45, after beating Linus Loeliger, heads-up. There were also wins for Matthias Eibinger at the $10,000 level, and victories for Dario Sammartino, Laurynas Levinskas, Alex Foxen, Adrian Mateos, Jake Schindler, Mikita Badziakouski, and Kristen Bicknell at the $5,000 level. Andras Nemeth won the only high buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha event, taking down a $5,000.

Here are the Results:

$25,000 No Limit Hold’em

60-entrants

Results

  1. Isaac Haxton – $456,764.45
  2. Linus Loeliger – $287,450.12
  3. Deepdarkwood – $217,470.47
  4. Sub-Zero – $164,527.25
  5. Alexandros Kolonias – $124,473.13
  6. Ali Imsirovic – $94,170.11
  7. Artur Martirosian – $71,244.43
  8. George Wolff – $53,900.04

$10,000 No Limit Hold’em

84-entrants

Results

  1. Matthias Eibinger – $198,735.16
  2. Dario Sammartino – $151,387.06
  3. pDNA – $115,319.62
  4. Linus Loeliger – $87,845.13
  5. Jake Schindler – $66,916.34
  6. Nator – $50,973.72
  7. Isaac Baron – $38,829.45
  8. Timothy Adams – $29,578.46
  9. George Wolff – $26,767.56

$5,000 Pot Limit Omaha

38-entrants

Results

  1. Andras Nemeth – $76,998.40
  2. Andreas Torbergsen – $45,494.62
  3. coronita – $28,636.32
  4. Magicmaster69 – $18,024.96
  5. 20BigWhale20 – $11,345.70

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em

112-entrants

Results

  1. Dario Sammartino – $121,843.29
  2. Samuel Vousden – $91,774.30
  3. Alex Foxen – $69,080.73
  4. Pascal Hartmann – $52,015.71
  5. Matthias Eibinger – $39,166.26
  6. Alexnadros Kolonias – $29,490.99
  7. Timothy Adams – $22,205.83
  8. cliffbooth – $16,720.33
  9. Trashdawg – $14,748.26

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em

58-entrants

Results

  1. Laurynas Levinskas – $95,443.37
  2. Trashdawg – $58,329.65
  3. David Peters – $42,108.05
  4. Jake Schindler – $30,397.70
  5. Kristen Bicknell – $21,944.04
  6. Pascal Hartmann – $15,841.36
  7. Jonathan Van Fleet – $11,435.83

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em

22-entrants

Results

  1. Alex Foxen – $54,601.25
  2. Tonythetiger – $33,029.35
  3. Ali Imsirovic – $16,869.39

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em

67-entrants

Results

  1. Adrian Mateos – $68,710.30*
  2. Nick Petrangelo – $77,308.85*
  3. Luuk Gieles – $45,737.48
  4. Dan Smith – $35,761.27
  5. Sam Greenwood – $27,961.06
  6. HogFish333 – $21,862.21
  7. George Wolff – $17,093.65
  8. Artur Martirosian – $13,365.19
  9. David Peters – $10,449.99

*Indicates a heads-up deal

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em

65-entrants

Results

  1. Jake Schindler – $95,936.10
  2. Adrian Mateos – $60,374.30
  3. Ali Imsirovic – $45,676.19
  4. Dan Smith – $34,556.31
  5. Porsche911sp – $26,143.59
  6. Sergi Reixach – $19,778.92
  7. BigWhale20 – $14,963.75
  8. Sam Greenwood – $11,320.84

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em

66-entrants

Results

  1. Mikita Badziakouski – $97,412.04
  2. Rui Ferreira – $61,303.13
  3. Vamossuerte – $46,378.90
  4. Adrian Mateos – $35,087.95
  5. Alexandros Kolonias – $26,545.80
  6. TheProfessional – $20,083.21
  7. Jake Schindler – $15,193.96
  8. Pascal Hartmann – $11,495.01

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em

44-entrants

Results

  1. TheProfessional – $89,156.02
  2. Jake Schindler – $52,677.99
  3. AndyAtTheBike – $33,157.85
  4. Pascal Hartmann – $20,871.01
  5. Fedor Holz – $13,137.13

$5,000 No Limit Hold’em

122-entrants

Results

  1. Kristen Bicknell – $88,387.40*
  2. Alex Foxen – $99,929.86*
  3. Isaac Baron – $108,820.35*
  4. Ami Barer – $55,909.17
  5. Michael Addamo – $42,529.38
  6. DanBiz – $32,351.51
  7. Dnegking – $24,609.33
  8. Adiemeerci – $18,719.99
  9. Andras Nemeth – $14,240.05

*Indicates a threeway deal

PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker

The final day of the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) saw Steve ‘Mr. Tim Caum’ O’Dwyer come close to winning his third title of the series.

O’Dwyer finished runner-up to the partypoker pro Joao ‘IneedMassari’ Simão in Event #120: $2,100 No Limit Hold’em Sunday Warm-Up Special Edition.

The event attracted 418-entrants, and the former PocketFives World #1 earned $150,546.78 for his victory. O’Dwyer collected $112,819.20 for his second-place finish.

O’Dwyer won a $25,000 No Limit Hold’em event for $521,598, and a $10,300 event for $241,956 – the first time he has earned SCOOP honours a year after winning a World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) title for the first time.

Alex Foxen

After live poker scuttled along the gangplank on its way to receiving a belly full of saltwater, those who make a living at that artform moved online to paint a new picture.

Alex Foxen is one of these live poker powerhouses. 

You don’t win back-to-back Global Poker Index (GPI) Player of the Year awards and maintain a stranglehold on the GPI World Rankings with a record 37-consecutive weeks in the number one slot unless you are all over the game like lice on a toddler.

On March 27, with everyone quarantined, Foxen made a passionate plea to PokerStars via Twitter to reopen his account after they shut him down without supplying a reason. Judging by his PocketFives results, that account is still gathering dust. 

Foxen may have earned the vast majority of his $6-7m in online multi-table tournament (MTT) winnings on PokerStars (playing under the pseudonym ‘bigfox86’), but you get the feeling that’s about to change.

The GPI World #1 needs online poker, now, more than ever, and if PokerStars won’t provide him with the platform, then off to GGPoker, Americas Cardroom (ACR) and partypoker he will trot. A fox will chase sheep no matter where those sheep may be. 

Foxen recently proved that he’s no online poker stowaway, taking $800,000 from the Poker Masters Online Series on partypoker. Foxen finished in the money (ITM) on seven occasions, including conquering a field of 99-entrants in Event #2: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em for a career-high online score of $309,677. 

There’s no time to blink in Foxen’s world.

The young American went into the final weekend of the Poker Masters Online harbouring hopes of winning his first Purple Jacket. After all, he had done it before, turning in an incredible performance at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Five Diamond at the Bellagio in the Winter to defend his GPI PoY title at the death. 

Foxen didn’t end up on the Poker Masters podium, but he did bank a six-figure score to ease his sorrows. Foxen topped a 256-entrant field in a $3k POWERFEST event on partypoker for $239,413. It was a final table filled with the finest cheekbones in online poker with Yuri Dzvielevski, Nick Petrangelo and Linus Loeliger all featuring. 

Add the POWERFEST win to the $800,000 in Poker Masters earnings, and Foxen has almost doubled his lifetime earnings on partypoker in the past fortnight. 

Who needs PokerStars?

Results

  1. Alex Foxen – $239,413
  2. Yuri Dzivielevski – $173,777
  3. Jordi Urlings – $123,874
  4. Daniil Lukin – $91,585
  5. Nick Petrangelo – $64,579
  6. Linus Loeliger – $49,315
  7. Benjamin Rolle – $36,399
  8. Bruno Volkmann – $27,005

Foxen currently ranks #75 in the PocketFives World Rankings.

In Other Online Poker News

In other online poker news, Foxen’s partner, and the GPI top-ranked female player, Kristen Bicknell, flew over the $4m in lifetime earnings mark after a blistering showing on GGPoker last week.

Between 20-27 April, Bicknell earned over a half a million dollars in gross profit playing on the former East-facing site that’s very firmly fixed on the West.

Here are Bicknell’s top four results of the week.

  1. 1st in a 38-entrant $5k event for $64,764.99
  2. 2nd in a 39-entrant $5k for $46,691.85
  3. 1st in a 85-entrant $2.5k for $44,304.64
  4. 1st in a 48-entrant $2.5k for $43,565.06
  5. 2nd in a 87-entrant $2.5k for $39,829.81

Bicknell currently ranks #41 in the PocketFives World Rankings.

From new school to old school, and Luke Schwartz binked a decent score on Tuesday night, beating a 116-entrant field to take down the $1,050 Super Tuesday No-Limit Hold’em event on PokerStars for $27,398.26

Schwartz, who plies his trade on the online cash game scene, has now earned more than $3m playing online MTTs with the bulk of those winnings coming on PokerStars. 

It’s his biggest score since finishing 3/2255 in a $530 NLHE Progressive Knockout (PKO) event for $42,402.56 during the 2019 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) on PokerStars.

Schwartz currently ranks #714 in the PocketFives World Rankings.

Pigeon.

When COVID-19 began pulling live poker apart, limb from limb, Cary Katz and Rob Yong sat by their fireplaces, toasted some marshmallows, and tried to figure out a response.

What a response it was.

Poker Central didn’t burrow like a sandworm; it partnered with partypoker to create a 30-event series, with buy-ins ranging between $10,000 and $50,000 – the Poker Masters Online was born.

The first three events are in the bag.

We saw some new names, some old names, and even a hint of nostalgia.

Event #1: $25,500 No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) attracted 55-entrants, created a $1,375,000 prize pool, and Elias Talvitie banked the $481,250 first prize.

You don’t often see the Finnish star standing on the top of a tournament podium of this magnitude, but he did finish 13/110 in the $50,000 NLHE High Roller during the World Series of Poker (WSOP) last summer.

Talvitie had to do it the hard way, with a legion of high stakes tournament regs ready and waiting to ambush him at every opportunity, but do it he did.

Here are the results.

Event #1: $25,500 buy-in NLHE

Results

  1. Elias Talvitie – $481,250 (289 pts)
  2. Sergi Reixach – $323,125 (194)
  3. Ole Schemion – $206,125 (124)
  4. Sam Greenwood – $123,750 (74)
  5. Michael Addamo – $96,250 (58)
  6. Chris Hunichen – $$79,063 (47)
  7. Juan Pardo Dominguez – $63,313 (38)

Tobias Zeigler Wins Event #2: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO)

Fifty-five stuck, as once again it became the entrant number, this time in Event #2: $10,000 PLO.

Tobias Zeigler won the $192,249 first prize after beating UK legend of the felt, James Akenhead. The man who once graced the WSOP and World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Main Event Final Tables in the same year, is not a regular fixture in poker write-ups these days but rolled back the years to pick up his biggest tournament score since winning the Poker Million in 2009.

Here are the results.

Results

  1. Tobias Zeigler – $192,249 (192)
  2. James Akenhead – $123,750 (124)
  3. Espen Myrmo – $66,000 (66)
  4. Matt Kirk – $49,500 (50)
  5. Ola Amundsgaard – $35,750 (36)
  6. Kai Lehto – $24,750 (25)
  7. Robinson Morales – $20,000 (20)
  8. Sam Trickett – $20,000 (20)
  9. Jukka Paloniemi – $20,000 (20)

Alex Foxen Wins Event #3: $10,000 NLHE

The third event attracted 99-entrants, and because of that vast field size, Alex Foxen takes the overnight lead in the Championship standings courtesy of his victory.

Then Global Poker Index (GPI) World #1 defeated a host of live tournament heroes, and online wizards, to claim the $309,677 first prize, defeating Artur Martirosian in heads-up competition. Foxen has now earned more than $6m playing online tournaments, and this is his most substantial score to date in that format.

Here are the results.

Results

  1. Alex Foxen – $309,677 (310)
  2. Artur Martirosian – $193,050 (193)
  3. Adrian Mateos – $118,800 (119)
  4. Conor Beresford – $86,625 (87)
  5. Timothy Adams – $61,875 (62)
  6. Ali Imsirovic – $42,075 (42)
  7. Wiktor Malinowski – $32,175 (32)
  8. Juan Pardo Dominguez – $32,175 (32)
  9. Chris Hunichen – $32,175 (32)
  10. Justin Bonomo – $27,124 (27)
  11. Mohsin Charania – $27,124 (27)
  12. Elio Fox – $27,124 (27)

If the malignant and maligned COVID-19 thought it would kill high stakes poker, it didn’t take partypoker into account. Yes, you’re more likely to get a vegan to eat a Hollands meat and potato pie than see a live tournament placing its head above the parapet, but poker evolves.

Online poker rooms have hosted high stakes poker tournaments before, but nothing like the Poker Masters. If all goes well, and the early prognosis is better than envisaged, then this could be a new alternative for high stakes players looking for a safe and secure way to make a few million bucks.

Poker Masters Online Championship Standings

  1. Alex Foxen – $309,677 (310 pts)
  2. Elias Talvitie – $481,250 (289)
  3. Sergi Reixach – $323,125 (194)
  4. Artur Martirosian – $193,050 (193)
  5. Tobias Ziegler – $192,249 (192)

If there’s a poker festival worth abandoning your pillow for it seems to be the Aussie Millions. We’ve had a record-breaking AUD 50,000 field. The Main Event fell three players short of setting a new bar, and the AUD 100,000 No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) Challenge also had a healthy 40 entrants. 

Tournament organisers are yet to draw a chalk outline on the registration period, so that number of 40 could still rise. Unless madness erupts, it’s never going to reach the dizzy heights of 2015 (Richard Yong beat 70-entrants), but it could eclipse the 42-entrant field, which Cary Katz found the right blend of stealth and skill to top last year.

Twenty-one players have boots in this thing, and sitting up top, is a man who likes being on top in Alex Foxen. The back-to-back Global Poker Index (GPI) Player of the Year (PoY), and reigning GPI World #1, placed 853,500 chips into a plastic bag. Australia hasn’t seen the best of Foxen, yet – could this be his year?

The only other player to bag up more than 800,000 chips is also a man in form. Aaron van Blarcum ended the year with more heat than a bottle of tabasco sauce. Blarcum finished second in the partypoker MILLIONS World Main Event for $970,000, before winning a $25,000 at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Five Diamond World Poker Classic, and finishing second in the $50,000 for more than $700,000.

Sitting in third place is the man Foxen plays tag with at the top of the GPI World Rankings. Stephen Chidwick finished in fifth place in the AUD 25,000 NLHE Challenge, and did win the €50,000 NLHE Super High Roller in December’s European Poker Tour (EPT) in Prague – so he’s not coming to war, holding a blunt knife. 

The Top 10 is certainly not monochrome. 

Few play better than Dan Smith at the sharp end of these things. Smith begins in ninth place. The Australian Poker Hall of Fame (APHoF) recently inducted Kahle Burns, and the GPI Australian PoY starts in eighth, and the All-Time Money List leader, and reigning Aussie Millions Main Event winner, Bryn Kenney, starts in seventh place.

And keep an eye out for Cary Katz.

The defending champion, finished second to Michael Addamo, in the AUD 50,000 NLHE Challenge, and he starts Day 2, 14th in chips. Addamo also made it through to Day 2. The APHoF handed him the Young Achiever Award a few days shy. 

Here are the Top 10 chip counts.

Top 10 Chip Counts

  1. Alex Foxen – 853,500
  2. Aaron van Blarcum – 824,500
  3. Stephen Chidwick – 745,000
  4. Seth Davies – 646,500
  5. Sam Grafton – 635,500
  6. Junichi Nakanowatari – 632,000
  7. Bryn Kenney – 584,000
  8. Kahle Burns – 545,000
  9. Dan Smith – 519,000
  10. Timothy Adams – 505,000