Alex Foxen


William Alex Foxen is an American poker player from Huntington, New York.
Foxen attended Boston College, where he played tight end on the school's football team. In 2012, while still 21 years old, he won the first World Series of Poker circuit event he entered in New Orleans.
Foxen's first WSOP final table came in 2017. In December of that year, he finished second in the Five Diamond World Poker Classic on the World Poker Tour, earning more than $1,134,000.
In 2018, Foxen earned more than $6.6 million and won high roller events on the WPT and Asia Pacific Poker Tour, as well as finishing runner-up in the Party Poker Millions event in Nottingham, England for $947,000 and the Super High Roller Bowl for $2,160,000, his largest career cash. He earned Player of the Year honors from Global Poker Index and was ranked No. 1 for 38 consecutive weeks from October 2018 to June 2019, a GPI record. At the 2019 WSOP, he finished 40th in the Main Event.
Foxen made the final table of the Five Diamond World Poker Classic for the second time in three years in December 2019. He won the tournament, defeating Toby Joyce heads-up and earning nearly $1.7 million for his first WPT title. The win moved him atop the GPI's POY race for the second straight year.
As of 2019, Foxen has more than $15.2 million in live tournament winnings. He has 39 cashes at the WSOP and four final tables for $810,000. He is in a relationship with two-time WSOP bracelet winner Kristen Bicknell. In June 2018, Foxen defeated her heads-up to win the Mid-Stakes Poker Tour Venetian event.