By Alex Drummond, Editor-in-Chief · June 7, 2026 · Fact-checked by Maya Chen
LAS VEGAS - The fastest second Canadian bracelet conversion of the modern World Series of Poker calendar is in play tonight at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. Toronto's Kristen Foxen, the most decorated Canadian female poker player of the modern era and a five-time WSOP gold bracelet winner, is one of six remaining contenders in the Event #19 $25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em final table that resumes at 3:30 p.m. local time on Sunday afternoon. The bracelet, US$1,773,083 in first-place prize money and the prospect of a back-to-back-day Canadian bracelet conversion are all in play, less than twenty-four hours after Quebec's Frederic Normand broke the 2026 Canadian bracelet drought at the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Eight-or-Better.
Foxen returns to the final-day table in seat three with a chip count of 9,325,000, third of the remaining six and roughly 31 big blinds deep at the Level 24 opening blinds of 150,000 and 300,000 with a 300,000 big-blind ante. Galen Hall, the United States professional who closed Day 3 as the only player with an eight-figure stack, leads with 16,050,000 chips and 54 big blinds. The intervening four players are Ignacio Moron of Spain at 7,900,000, Joey Weissman of the United States at 7,200,000, Biao Ding of China at 6,875,000 and Zdenek Zizka of Czechia at 4,375,000. The 345-entry field, increased by twenty-eight late-registering entries beyond the published estimate, generated a prize pool of US$8,107,500 and a top prize of US$1,773,083 that the Day 4 starting field will play down to a single winner.
The Final Six
The seat assignments, as recorded in the PokerNews Event #19 chip count, run as follows.
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Biao Ding | China | 6,875,000 | 23 |
| 2 | Ignacio Moron | Spain | 7,900,000 | 26 |
| 3 | Kristen Foxen | Canada | 9,325,000 | 31 |
| 4 | Galen Hall | United States | 16,050,000 | 54 |
| 5 | Zdenek Zizka | Czechia | 4,375,000 | 15 |
| 6 | Joey Weissman | United States | 7,200,000 | 24 |
Each of the six is guaranteed a minimum of US$300,942 on their US$25,000 buy-in, an immediate eleven-and-a-half-times return. The full remaining payout structure tightens sharply from there.
| Place | Prize (US$) |
|---|---|
| 1 | $1,773,083 |
| 2 | $1,182,050 |
| 3 | $819,050 |
| 4 | $577,326 |
| 5 | $413,389 |
| 6 | $300,942 |
The international weighting of the final six (United States 2, Canada 1, Spain 1, China 1, Czechia 1) is consistent with the field-internationalisation pattern this newsroom has been tracking across the 2026 series. The bracelet decision, on the operator's published scheduling, will be reached in a single sitting tonight with the PokerGO main feature stream beginning at 6:00 p.m. local time on a 150-minute delay relative to live action. The final-day reporting from the tournament floor will be on the same 150-minute delay to prevent live-broadcast spoilers.
Who Kristen Foxen Is
Kristen Foxen, then Bicknell, started her live-circuit career in Mississauga in the late 2000s and has, by the published Hendon Mob record, accumulated approximately US$15-million in career live tournament earnings, the largest career total of any Canadian female poker player in the modern era. Her five existing WSOP gold bracelets, won between 2014 and 2024, cover a mix of no-limit hold'em, mixed-game and ladies-only events. Her sixth career bracelet, if it arrives tonight, will move her past Cyndy Violette and Annie Duke at the modern-era Canadian female bracelet count and into the top tier of all-time Canadian WSOP winners regardless of gender.
Foxen's 2026 series, prior to the Event #19 deep run, included an 83rd-place finish in Event #11 $10,000 GGMillion$ High Roller for US$19,999 and a Day 1 cash in Event #5 $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha. Her husband, American professional Alex Foxen, busted Sunday from Event #17 $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship and finished third in Event #7 $25,000 Heads-Up Championship the prior week for US$300,000. The Foxens have, in the public Hendon Mob record, combined career earnings of approximately US$45-million across all live tournament events, the largest combined Canadian-American married couple total in the modern era.
The Field at the Final Day
Galen Hall, the Day 3 chip leader, is one of the most accomplished mid-buy-in no-limit hold'em professionals on the modern PGT circuit, with a 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event victory for US$2.3-million on his Hendon Mob record. Joey Weissman, in seat six, already holds a WSOP bracelet and approximately US$10-million in career live earnings. Biao Ding is the same Chinese professional who eliminated Daniel Negreanu in the Round of 16 of the WSOP Heads-Up Championship on Sunday, May 31. Ignacio Moron and Zdenek Zizka are both recreational-circuit highrollers from the European tournament scene. The Hendon Mob combined bracelet count of the final six, prior to tonight's action, sits at seven gold rings.
The chip-stack distribution gives Hall approximately a thirty-five per cent equity share of the bracelet from his chip-lead position, with Foxen and Moron at approximately seventeen per cent each, Weissman at fifteen per cent, Ding at twelve per cent and Zizka at the short-stack ten per cent. The equity tables, on the deep-stack structure of the final-day blinds, are highly responsive to the early-orbit chip movement. The PokerGO stream will begin at 6:00 p.m. local time on the WSOP standard 150-minute delay, with reporting from the tournament floor following the same delay protocol.
The Ontario Read
The Canadian-flagged player pool's bracelet count at the 2026 World Series of Poker, before the Sunday-afternoon final day of Event #19, stands at one. A Foxen bracelet would bring the Canadian total to two within a single twenty-four-hour window, the fastest back-to-back Canadian-bracelet conversion of the modern WSOP era. The prior record for fastest Canadian back-to-back bracelet wins, by the published WSOP archive, sat at approximately seventy-two hours, recorded in the 2024 series.
For Ontario players who play their poker on the regulated provincial sites, the practical pathway into a Foxen-style final-table deep run runs through the AGCO-registered satellite operators. GGPoker Ontario remains the only AGCO-registered room running official WSOP and WSOPC satellites for players physically located in the province. The Foxen result, regardless of the bracelet outcome, will be the second consecutive day this newsroom has tracked a Canadian-led WSOP final-day storyline, after the Normand wire-to-wire Day 3 victory on Saturday night. The pattern fits the broader trajectory across the four-year regulated Ontario online market history: a rising Canadian-flagged live tournament participation rate that, by the early Day 13 snapshot of the 2026 series, is producing more high-equity deep-run positions than any of the prior three series.
The Sunday afternoon coincides with the first head-to-head Sunday tournament weekend in the regulated Ontario online poker market since the operator landscape reset on Wednesday morning, with FanDuel Poker Ontario's launch-weekend Sunday Dynasty and Sunday Shield events running against GGPoker Ontario's standing Sunday slate. Ontario players who turn off their online tables in the early evening will be able to catch the PokerGO stream of Foxen's bracelet bid as it lands. The 6:00 p.m. local-time stream start in Las Vegas converts to 9:00 p.m. Eastern, with the bracelet decided some hours later on a single-day final-table push.
The first Canadian bracelet of the 2026 World Series arrived on Saturday night. The second may arrive within the next eight to twelve hours. The Foxen final-day at the Event #19 $25,000 High Roller is, on the chip-stack snapshot heading into Day 4, the highest-equity Canadian opportunity at any bracelet event since the regulated Ontario online market opened in April 2022.