The Canadian PokerStake player Kristen Foxen cashed for an incredible $1.4m in Jeju, South Korea, as she was the last female player standing in the Triton Main Event yet again. In an event where Ben Tollerene won the latest Triton Main Event title, it was the Canadian Foxen’s deep run that made plenty of headlines after a rollercoaster of a final table ended her event in fourth place.

The Pocket Kings Fold

The latest Triton Main Event took place in Jeju, South Korea. Featuring 178 total entries, it was a field full of stars, and only 31 of them got paid, including legends such as Ben Lamb (31^st), Nacho Barbero (30^th) and Pedro Padilha (28^th) who all in-cashed for $157,000. Others to cash before the final table were Sergio Aido (27^th for $174,500), Stephen Chidwick (21^st for $192,000), Aleks Ponakovs (14^th for $263,000) and the recent Triton Jeju High Roller winner Bernhard Binder, who came 12^th for $290,000.

As the final table began, the eventual winner Ben Tollerene led the final nine with a chunky lead of 73 big blinds, with Xu Yang his nearest challenger on 44 big blinds. Everyone else was scrabbling for every ICM foothold they could grab and that led to a hotly debated hand featuring Foxen.

The Brazilian player Felipe Ketzer moved all-in with jack-queen and was quickly called by Philip Sternheimer with pocket jacks.  A few seats round from Ketzer, however, Kristen Foxen had a hard decision to make with pocket kings. The ICM pressure was such that Kristen elected to fold her kings, attracting plenty of discussion online. The ‘cowboys’ would have won the hand, but she lived to play another hand one place further up the leaderboard.

Quad Nines Saves Canadian

Another big hand soon propelled Kristen up the leaderboard and into six-figure territory. Ketzer had hit the rail for $385,000 in ninth place. Kristen’s fold with kings had preserved her tournament life but down to 17 big blinds, she moved all-in with pocket nines and ran into the pocket queens of Ben Tollerene. A nine on the flop gave Kristen a set and when another nine landed on the river, quads saved the Canadian’s tournament life in style.

That hand helped Kristen to outlast the next couple of eliminations, including that of Tom Fuchs. If the many fans watching online thought that her folding pocket kings was a massive mistake, they were about to get alive demonstration as to why it wasn’t so ridiculous after all, as the German player Tom Fuchs busted in eighth place for $484,000 when he committed his stack with pocket kings only to run into Philip Sternheimer’s pocket aces. They held and the field was down to seven players.

Chinese player Xu Yang left in seventh for $635,000 when Ben Tollerene’s pocket kings won the day against Yang’s pocket queens. Sean Winter soon followed, as the PokerGO and Triton high roller regular took $870,000 in sixth when his ace-ten fell to Tollerene’s ace-queen. Thai player Punnat Punsri busted in fifth place for $1,146,000 when his pocket fours couldn’t beat Sternheimer’s jack-queen. Incredibly, a four came on the flop in the hand, as a jack on the flop, turn and river gave the British player quad jacks to knock out the shell-shocked Thailand professional.

Just Short of Glory

As the final table had progressed to the final four players, the chances had increased of Kristen setting a number of records. Already the highest-earning female poker player in the world, Kristen could top win the biggest single prize taken home by a female player in tournament poker, the biggest prize for a woman on the Triton Poker Series and the biggest single prize won on the Triton Poker Series tour by a woman if she finished third.

Of course, she finished in fourth place for $1,449,000 because ‘the cards don’t care’.

All-in with ace-six, Kristen lost to Ben Tollerene’s ace-king, as she fell just short of outranking Liv Boeree, Ebony Kenney and Sosia Jiang in those records. The truth is, Kristen is bound to overtake all those women in time such is her consistency as the highest-earning woman in the world year on year, with many investors on PokerStake feeling the benefit of backing one of poker’s best players, regardless of her sex.

The remainder of the tournament played out with one player dominating. Elton Tsang crashed out with ace-three when Ben Tollerene’s king-six won with a paired six. Heads-up, Tollerene had 91 big blinds to Philip Sternheimer’s 20 big blinds. On a flop of A-T-2, Tollerene had ‘Texas Dolly’ a.k.a. ten-deuce, the hand that won Doyle Brunson to win the 1976 and 1977 World Championship. Sternheimer’s king-seven was no match, and after a six on the turn and deuce on the river, his ill-timed bluff ran into Tollerene’s full house, making the American’s snap-call all the easier.

In the end, the prize pool of $17.8 million saw Ben Tollerene win the top prize of $3.76 million but Kristen Foxen’s $1.44 million result in fourth made just as many headlines.

Triton Super High Roller Series 2026 $100,000 Main Event Final Table Results:
Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Ben Tollerene	United States	$3,766,000
2nd	Philip Sternheimer	United Kingdom	$2,535,000
3rd	Elton Tsang	Hong Kong	$1,787,000
4th	Kristen Foxen	Canada	$1,449,000
5th	Punnat Punsri	Thailand	$1,146,000
6th	Sean Winter	United States	$870,000
7th	Xu Yang	China	$635,000
8th	Tom Fuchs	Germany	$464,000
9th	Felipe Ketzer	Brazil	$385,000