It's a good day to be named Foxen.

Only a few hours after Kristen Foxen took fourth place in the first tournament of the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series trip to Montenegro, her husband Alex Foxen bludgeoned through the field in the second event to win a third Triton title.

Alex's victory earned him $755,000 after he beat a field of 130-entries in the $25,000 NLH event. It was a customarily dominant performance from Foxen, whose return to the Triton fold after five years away has shown just what these high stakes streets have been missing.

He won a first title on his first event back in Monte Carlo last November. He followed it up with a massive win in the Bahamas Main Event. And now Foxen had landed a third success only seven months after the first.

"I'm running good, and I definitely feel I'm playing my best," Foxen told Ali Nejad as he collected his latest trophy. "Yeah, it's a good recipe."

The 34-year-old pro added: "I've had a lot of things go my way. To come back and run really hot at the beginning is really nice."

Foxen was put through the wringer, but came out with the correct decision pretty much every time

Foxen said he enjoyed sweating Kristen play, as well as taking charge of the table when it's his turn. And with that, he hastily swept out the room to join Kristen in Event #3, which was playing its early stages in the neighbouring room.

Foxen paid tribute to his defeated heads-up opponent, Artur Martirosian, who was denied a third Triton title of his own. Martirosian leads the coveted Ivan Leow Player of the Year race and will extend his lead after this performance, plus his 16th-place finish in the opening event of this trip.

"There were lots of good players as there always are in these tournaments," Foxen said. "I definitely didn't like seeing Artur to my left with a lot of chips. He likes to battle."

The pair played one particularly memorable pot, which ended in a six bet from Foxen and a fold from Martirosian. They were three-handed at the time, but it set the stage for an intriguing heads-up duel between the two. Foxen just had the best of it and took it down once more.

TOURNAMENT ACTION

The opening stages of the event took place in the secondary tournament room here at the Maestral Resort, a capacious casino room permitting Event 1 to play to its final next door.

A field of 130 entries quickly amassed, which hastily contracted through the bubble at 24 players (Ramin Hajiyev was the stone bubble boy) and then down to a final table of nine.

Former Triton champs Ben Tollerene, Henrik Hecklen, Santhosh Suvarna and Espen Jorstad all made the money but fell short of the final, while Aleks Ponakovs was eliminated in 10th the set the final as follows:

Alex Foxen - 6,050,000 (76 BBs)

Michael Soyza - 4,090,000 (51 BBs)

Artur Martirosian - 2,820,000 (35 BBs)

Nacho Barbero - 2,795,000 (35 BBs)

Jesse Lonis - 2,560,000 (32 BBs)

Raul Manzanares - 2,490,000 (31 BBs)

Barak Wisbrod - 1,840,000 (23 BBs)

Tom Heung - 1,740,000 (22 BBs)

Webster Lim - 1,615,000 (20 BBs)

Triton Montenegro Event #2 final table players (clockwise from back left): Tom Heung, Jesse Lonis, Barak Wisbrod, Artur Martirosian, Nacho Barbero, Webster Lim, Alex Foxen, Michael Soyza, Raul Manzanares

Tournament organisers wound the clock back a level or two to make sure there was still plenty of play. It only made Alex Foxen's lead look all the more formidable, but it gave more wiggle room for the players at the bottom of the counts and offered a chance for them to get back involved.

Looking down at pocket queens early into final table play, Tom Heung probably thought this was his chance. He three-bet Nacho Barbero's open, then called all-in after Barbero jammed. Heung was still technically ahead, but Barbero tabled AK so this was a classic race.

And it was a classic race Barbero won.

The K on the flop catapulted the Argentinian into the lead. Heung couldn't hit one of his two outs and that was that for the Hong Kong player. He took $75,000 for ninth.

This final table was stacked with former Triton champions, though many followers of European and North American poker might not be familiar with Webster Lim. He is, however, very well known at the Triton tables, where he has won three titles and amassed $6.7 million in earnings. There was no surprise here to see him back at a final.

Lim came to the final table with the shortest stack and successfully managed to ladder one spot thanks to Heung's departure. But he couldn't edge any further up. Lim got involved in a three-way pot with Alex Foxen and Artur Martirosian, flopping middle pair when his K9 connected with the 4109 flop.

Lim got his last five blinds in there, but Foxen had raised pre-flop with Q10 and so had hit top pair. Lim couldn't catch up and bust in eighth, signing for a $94,000 score.

No fourth title yet for Webster Lim

In contrast to Lim, Raul Manzanares is a relative Triton newcomer, recording his first cash in Jeju last time out. This was only his sixth Triton tournament so a visit to the final table was a great result, even if it ended in seventh place.

Martirosian opened the pot from mid-position and Manzanares jammed with QJ in the big blind. He had a decent hand to defend his blind and ante from any steal, but Martirosian was at the top of his range with KK. He called and knocked out Manzanares after a board that connected with neither of them.

Manzanares won $129,000, but here's another Spanish player to watch.

Raul Manzanares is another Spanish player to watch

Michael Soyza is another two-time Triton winner, who is on an incredible run of cashes on the series. He cashed the last three tournaments he played in Jeju, as well as the $25K WPT Global Slam here, which kicked off the trip to Montenegro. And now, with a final table appearance, the streak continued.

Soyza couldn't convert the run into another win, however, and lost his last 16 blinds after three-bet jamming A7 over Foxen's UTG open with AJ. There was a jack on the flop, and though Soyza also had a gutshot, he couldn't hit.

Soyza's latest cash was worth $174,000.

Michael Soyza continued a long cashing streak

The name Barak Wisbrod is often mentioned when people start discussing the best cash-game players in the world, and the Israeli has often moonlighted as a tournament player on the Triton Series. He's not enjoyed a huge amount of success (don't weep for him; he is a beast at the cash tables) but he had played a big stack very well for long periods in this event and was now at his first final.

However, Wisbrod had slowly slipped to five blinds when he found K10 and hammed from under the gun. Barbero, in the big blind, made the call with pocket eights. Wisbrod spiked a king on the flop but Barbero found a third eight on the turn.

Wisbrod was out in fifth for $224,000.

Barak Wisbrod, cash game crusher, at a first Triton final

There were still plenty of chips out there, but they seemed to be gradually gravitating towards Foxen and Martirosian, with the others playing continual catch-up. Even after knocking out Wisbrod, Barbero still had a sub 20-blind stack, while Jesse Lonis had even fewer.

And it was Lonis who was next to take the fall, finding A10 on the button and jamming. However, Foxen was lurking in the small blind with AK and made a routing call. A king on the flop made it even more difficult for Lonis, who took $280,000 for fourth.

The bell started tolling for Barbero next as his stack slipped below 15 blinds. But he must have looked on with glee as Foxen and Martirosian got engaged in a very rare six-bet pre-flop pot: Martirosian providing the odd-numbered raises and Foxen the even, including that final one that would have cost Martirosian everything if he wanted to call.

He folded and people in the room waited for the stream to catch up to discover what they both had. (Martirosian was five-betting with A9. Foxen was six-betting AK)

Martirosian thus stayed alive, which put the pressure back on Barbero. With 12 blinds, he opened AQ from the button, only to see Foxen three-bet again from the small blind. Barbero called but Foxen had pocket nines. He won the flip once more.

Barbero's third place earned him $341,000.

Adios Nacho. Barbero out in third

And with that, the tournament was heads up. Player of the Year leader Martirosian had 14 blinds to Foxen's 90, but it wasn't the first time today there had been an enormous heads-up imbalance. Xuan Liu managed to overcome her deficit, could Martirosian do the same?

He started well enough. He managed a double with J10 against Foxen's J9. And it got better when he also got pocket deuces to hold against Foxen's KQ, again all-in pre-flop. Foxen had a ton of outs after the board paired on the turn, but whiffed them all. That brought stacks all but level, with about 87 blinds between them.

Foxen seemed to take this state of affairs as a personal affront. He quickly put his foot on the gas and won nine pots in succession, building back into a four-to-one lead. Martirosian hit back on the 10th in spectacular fashion, however, running a beautiful bluff with just six high and getting Foxen to fold way better.

Having built a 17-blind pot, Martirosian jammed the river looking at a board of 5JAA4. Foxen folded a jack to preserve a two-to-one lead, but Martirosian took the acclaim of the viewers when they saw he had only 62.

It proved to be a high point for Martirosian, however. They chopped the next pot after getting it all in pre-flop with Foxen's K4 getting lucky against Martirosian's K10 (the board double-paired). But then it only lasted one more hand after that before Foxen got it done.

A winner's fist-bump from Ali Nejad for Alex Foxen

This time, his 98 flopped trips on a board of 848. That four was crucial, because Martirosian had 104 and had a pair as well, persuading him to part with his chips.

But there was no beating Foxen. Yet again.