The action for Saturday, June 7 at the World Series of Poker hosted by the Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas, saw a few Canadians finding bags and cashes, including the #1 Canadian woman, #2 woman overall, and 9th-best Canadian earner, Kristen Foxen, who found a decent cash in the $25k 6-Handed High Roller.
Scott Groome led 26 Canadians in a big Day 1d flight from the Colossus, which ended its final flight with more than 16,000 runners. Jaswinder Lally and Daniel Negreanu also found cashes on Saturday, with Zachary Zaret also still in Event 27 with a chance for bracelet #2 this week. Foxen also jumped right back into the fray, bagging a decent Day 1 stack in the $25k High Roller.
Foxen with Bag and Cash
Kristen Foxen is the cream of women’s poker right now. With more than $10 million in wins, she is the #1 woman earner in Canada and #9 Canadian overall. That puts her second overall in the women’s global rankings on Hendon Mob, behind only the incomparable Vanessa Selbst. Foxen is about $1.3 million behind Selbst’s total, which is just shy of $12 million, but with Selbst stepping back from the game in recent years, it seems likely Foxen will take over #1 within the next year or so.
To that end, she added another cash to her already impressive resume on Saturday, grabbing 13th place in Event #22: $25,000 High Roller 6-Handed. She brought one of the shorter stacks into the final day, and was an early exit from that day for $87,971, but she immediately went over to the second $25k high roller, this one playing 9-handed, and proceeded to bag 441k for 41st place out of 98 remaining for Day 2. Entries are still open on Day 2, however, so there will be a few more than 98 stacks in play to start the day.
Foxen was the only Canadian I saw in the chip counts for Event 26.
Groome Leads Canadians from 1d of Colossus
There were 26 Canadians still with chips at the end of a massive Day 1d in the Colossus. The final flight got nearly 6,000 runners, for a 4-flight total of 16,301, and 2,326 players moving on to Day 2 from one of the four opening flights.
It looks like there will be 76 Canadians among the Day 2 players, and Scott Groome leads Canadians into the final flight. He is one of two Canadians with more than a million, joined by the top 1c Canadian, James Morgan. Morgan bagged about 10k less than Groome, so they are both very close, but still some way behind the top stack of Lok Chan with 1.635 million, bagged on Day 1a.
Faure Leads Canadians in Big O; Zaret in with a Chance for #2
A couple of days ago, Zachary Zaret scored Canada’s first bracelet of 2025, and his own personal first at the same time. He’s back at it again, and once again, he’s playing with more than two cards. He recently won the $1,500 PLO8 game for almost $250k, and now he’s bagged 300k for 29th place out of 207 returning players in Event #27: $1,500 Big O.
- Read more: Zaret Bags Canada’s First Bracelet in PLO Hi-Lo
- Read more: 2025 WSOP: Zachary Zaret Wins First Bracelet in Stacked $1,500 PLO8 Final
That’s behind the stack of the best Canadian, Stephane Faure (20th, 361k, no picture of Faure was available), and just a hair ahead of Ari Engel with 299k.
Canadian Cashes for June 7, 2025
| Event | Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Event #22: $25,000 High Roller 6-Handed | 13 | Kristen Foxen | $87,971 |
| Event #24: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot | 31 | Jaswinder Lally | $9,709 |
| Event #24: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot | 43 | Miguel Proulx | $6,784 |
| Event #24: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot | 85 | Antoine Sankari | $3,637 |
| Event #24: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot | 152 | Rishi Makkar | $3,027 |
| Event #24: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot | 163 | Ari Engel | $3,027 |
| Event #24: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot | 178 | Samuel Fuller | $3,027 |
| Event #24: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot | 209 | Jonathan Krela | $3,027 |
| Event #25: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship | 11 | Daniel Negreanu | $23,623 |
Canadian Bags for June 7, 2025
| Event | Place | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 19 | Scott Groome | 1,013,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 36 | Ryan Rivers | 907,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 70 | Shawn Pilot | 746,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 132 | Don Mccall | 602,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 153 | Sergio Tomei | 569,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 154 | Constantinos Psallidas | 567,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 163 | Matthew Reams | 543,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 191 | Dane Lomas | 493,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 205 | Dale Harris | 476,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 249 | Malawai Hoyer | 424,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 258 | Jad Awada | 419,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 349 | Renmei Liu | 329,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 356 | Dale Desmet | 328,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 371 | Frayser Flores | 318,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 405 | Vincent Bellissimo | 291,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 420 | Gerald Dennis | 284,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 465 | Aaron Vaughan | 252,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 477 | Christopher Da Rocha | 242,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 517 | David Johnson | 215,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 551 | Jeffrey Batmanian | 200,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 605 | Ran Yi | 175,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 634 | Leo Bell | 166,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 638 | Sanharib Mikhaiel | 165,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 690 | Aijing Jiao | 142,000 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 818 | Edgard Saliba | 65,400 |
| Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS | 833 | Johnny Dalphond | 51,000 |
| Event #26: $25,000 High Roller | 41 | Kristen Foxen | 441,000 |
| Event #27: $1,500 Big O | 20 | Stephane Faure | 361,000 |
| Event #27: $1,500 Big O | 29 | Zachary Zaret | 300,000 |
| Event #27: $1,500 Big O | 30 | Ari Engel | 299,000 |
