Alex Foxen Leads GPI Race, Trails Card Player by 18 Points
The ACR Poker pro’s five-title summer has him atop one POY race and barely behind in the other.
Alex Foxen now leads the 2026 Global Poker Index Player of the Year standings and sits just 18 points behind Brandon Wilson in Card Player’s race, according to ACR Poker’s site. In GPI, Foxen has 4,480.04 points to Tony “Ren” Lin’s 4,321.52, a 158.52-point edge built from his best 13 qualifying open-event results.
The Card Player table is tighter. Wilson has 7,127 points, Foxen has 7,109, and Jesse Lonis is third with 6,481. ACR Poker notes that Card Player scores depend on finishing position, buy-in and field size, while GPI scores are drawn from a player’s top 13 results, so one late run can still reshape either race.
Foxen’s 2026 résumé includes five titles, 12 final tables and $4,229,256 in POY-qualified winnings. His wins came at PGT Last Chance Event #6 for $232,400, MSPT Poker Bowl X for $165,235, Triton Jeju’s $75,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max for $1.26 million, U.S. Poker Open Event #7 for $210,000 and the WSOP $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty for $594,246 and his fourth bracelet.
That WSOP score capped a summer that also produced 14 cashes and $2,067,005 in listed payouts. It came after a fourth-place finish in the $25,000 Heads-Up Championship for $300,000, a sixth in the $100,000 High Roller for $522,347, a seventh in the $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller for $267,993 and a fifth in the $10,000 8-Game Championship for $94,730. Foxen joined ACR Poker on May 28 with Chance Kornuth and Chris Hunichen, and four of those five qualifying wins were already on the board before the roster move. As covered earlier in August, Foxen was already having a huge summer before this standings update.
If the season ended now, Foxen would collect a third GPI Player of the Year title, after back-to-back wins in 2018 and 2019. He is still chasing his first Card Player POY award, despite finishing third in 2018 and 2025, second in 2019, and fourth in 2021 and 2022.
