With her win in the $15,000 buy-in event at the PokerGO Cup for $348,300, Kristen Foxen not only surpassed $11 million in career earnings, but she also overtook the top spot on the women’s all-time money list.
The score was the fourth-biggest payday of the 38-year-old Canadian poker pro’s career. Foxen’s largest cash came last year when she placed 13th in the largest World Series of Poker main event ever held to earn $600,000. The five-time bracelet winner has 251 recorded in-the-money finishes overall, including 29 six-figure scores. Foxen now sits in 140th place on the overall all-time money list.
Vanessa Selbst slipped to second on this leaderboard as a result of Foxen’s latest victory. Such was her dominance in the early 2010s high roller circuit that she had maintained her place atop this list for years despite officially retiring as a pro back in 2018.
Selbst has $10.9 million in career scores, including three bracelet wins and two seven-figure triumphs. The 40-year-old’s biggest score saw her best a field of 764 entries in the 2010 Partouche Poker Tour main event for more than $1.8 million. (The Yale Law graduate also took down a $1 million winner-take-all made-for-TV invitational event which doesn’t count for this list.)
Kathy Liebert sits in third place on this list with more than $7.1 million in lifetime cashes. The 57-year-old bracelet winner has 514 recorded in-the-money finishes, including a win in the first ever Party Poker Million back in 2002. It was the first of only four limit hold’em tournaments in history with a $1 million or more first-place prize. (Berj Kacherian finished second for $93,600!) Liebert also has six World Poker Tour final tables.
British poker pro turned podcast host Liv Boeree is the only other female player to surpass $5 million in recorded earnings. The bracelet winner and 2010 European Poker Tour San Remo champion recently finished fourth in the WSOP Paradise super main event for $2,800,000, which set a new record as the highest tournament payout ever earned by a woman. Before that score, that honor belonged to Wenling Gao, who banked $2,748,605 as the runner-up in the 2020 WSOP Online main event.
Rounding out the top five is Maria Ho with $4,735,229. A big chunk of Ho’s tournament success has come at the WSOP, with more than half of her 201 career cashes coming in bracelet events.
She has two podium finishes among those scores, including a third-place showing in the 2023 WSOP Paradise mystery millions for $200,000 and a runner-up finish in a 2011 $5,000 no-limit hold’em for $540,020. She also took down the $25,000 high roller at the 2019 L.A. Poker Classic for another $276,690. Ho has also been the last woman standing in the WSOP main event three different times (2007, 2014, and 2020).
Women’s All-Time Money List Top Ten
| Rank | Player | Wins | Cashes | Prize Money |
| 1 | Kristen Foxen | 15 | 251 | $11,077,811 |
| 2 | Vanessa Selbst | 14 | 88 | $10,899,027 |
| 3 | Kathy Liebert | 24 | 514 | $7,129,540 |
| 4 | Liv Boeree | 4 | 96 | $6,501,275 |
| 5 | Maria Ho | 5 | 201 | $4,735,229 |
| 6 | Sosia Jiang | 1 | 41 | $4,524,101 |
| 7 | Joanne ‘J.J.’ Liu | 30 | 389 | $4,030,662 |
| 8 | Loni Hui | 12 | 236 | $3,948,591 |
| 9 | Maria Lampropulos | 5 | 136 | $3,635,302 |
| 10 | Annette Obrestad | 13 | 100 | $3,633,693 |
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