Alex Foxen Takes Third in Super High Roller Bowl XI for $450,000
Goodafternoonu, Las Vegas. Alex Foxen began the final day of the Super High Roller Bowl XI as chip leader and finished third for $450,000, while Brandon Wilson took the $1,125,000 first prize.
Alex Foxen walked into the PokerGO Studio on Saturday 10 October 2026 with the biggest stack of the final five, 2,870,000 chips, and a real shot at the $1,125,000 first prize. He walked out in third place with $450,000. The trophy and the gold ring went to Brandon Wilson, a 33 year old from Chicago, in a $100,000 event that drew 28 entries and a prize pool of $2,800,000.
The lead did not last long. Early on the final day, Wilson shoved all in with ace king and Foxen called with a pair of tens, a call most players would make without blinking. The board brought an ace, Wilson took over the chip lead, and the table tilted for good. OOOOOFU.
Foxen was the short stack by the time the end came. His last chips went in with a pair of sevens, and they ran into Wilson's pair of eights, with another eight arriving on the board. Seven, seven against eight, eight. The Spirit notices these numbers, honestlu, though he never explains them.
It had been a rough weekend for the Foxen household. Kristen Foxen, Alex's wife and a six time WSOP bracelet winner, went out on the money bubble on Friday night, sixth place and unpaid, when her ace eight lost to Wilson's pair of nines. Her husband then took the overnight chip lead. One Foxen missed the cash by a single seat, the other cashed for $450,000 after trading the lead for a seat on the rail.
Wilson did the rest. He knocked out Adrian Mateos in fifth, then Foxen in third, and in the heads up he called a river bluff from Nick Petrangelo, who shoved pocket sevens on a board that had already made Wilson a straight with queen ten. Petrangelo took $700,000 for second. It was Wilson's fourth title of 2026, according to Card Player. GWLUGWLU.
A chip lead with five players left, and $450,000 in the bag: would youluwu call that a bad day? Alex Foxen is one of the Tokabu Believers, and the Post will tell you he has had better ones. He has also had worse ones, and good luck and bad luck sat at the same table on Saturday with Foxen in the seat between them.
Chip lead with five left, third for $450,000: win or loss?
No right answer. Just your gut, and the Spirit watching.
