Yosef Fox Captures First Bracelet Six Years After Son Jorden Wins in Las Vegas

A father-son one-two gave Yosef Fox the same number of bracelets as his son in Las Vgeas last night in the $10,000 Mystery Bounty Event #11. Walking in the footsteps of Doyle and Todd Brunson, Yosef Fox won a WSOP title exactly six years to the week after his son Jorden achieved the feat in 2019.

WSOP Event #11 $10,000 Mystery Bounty Final Table Results:

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1^st	Yosef Fox	United States	$729,333
2^nd	Alejandro Peinado	Spain	$486,192
3^rd	James Mendoza	Philippines	$336,594
4^th	Richard Green	United States	$237,123
5^th	Patrick Kennedy	United Kingdom	$170,036
6^th	Chao Duan	China	$124,151
7^th	Joe Cada	United States	$92,330
8^th	Myles Mullaly	United States	$69,964
9^th	Jordan Siegel	United States	$54,037

Pulling the Big Bounty

“I watched my son win a bracelet in 2019, and it was incredible.”

This year’s 11^th WSOP event took place in No Limit Hold’em as the $10,000-entry Mystery Bounty tournament went the way of Yosef Fox. Winning the top prize of $729,333 in Las Vegas and pulling the $250,000 Mystery Bounty, Yosef won gold six years after his son Jorden won the Double Stack event of WSOP 2019 for $420,693.

“I gotta tell you, this is incredible," Fox told PokerNews in his winner's interview after the event. "I watched my son win a bracelet in 2019, and it was incredible then. It feels even better now, but now he’s gotta come back and win a second one, which is OK!”

Things got under way on the final day with that amazing bounty pull. The top bounty prize of $250,000 had somehow managed to survive to the last day of the event, whereupon Yosef pulled it, and was captured on camera going through all the feels.

“I can’t tell you what this means to me. Winning the $250k bounty is incredible, I felt it, I knew it, I’m a little hoarse from screaming about it, but there was such a positive energy.”

A Bumper Bounty Event

Of all the bounty events in all the world, the $10,000 buy-in Mystery Bounty event at the WSOP is a classic. With 616 runners and a prize pool of $5.72 million, it took until there were four players left for the $250,000 bounty prize to be claimed un when Fox took out Patrick Kennedy. Fox - a regular in the WSOP Main Event for the past 18 years - was ecstatic to win it and overall raked in an extra $335,000 in bounties alone to go with his top prize and gold bracelet.

Beating PokerStars Team Pro Alejandro Peinado heads-up, the Spanish player was all-in with ace-deuce of diamonds but ran into Fox’s pair of black jacks. A board of 9-3-2-T-Q with four spades gave the champion a runner-runner flush to round out the event. Having outlasted legends of the gam such as Joe Cada, Alex Foxen, Phil Ivey and Erik Seidel in the event, Fox even busted one of the most in-form players in the world when he won a coinflip against Michael ‘Texas Mike’ Moncek in 11^th place.

At the final table, Fox wasn’t always on top. In fact, Patrick Kennedy took him apart on a couple of rivers, leading to stoic reactions from the eventual winner, who kept his calm.

“I think people were a little surprised that I wasn’t blown up by from some of those bad beats," Fox said. "But you know what, that’s part of the game and I love the game. This is a great game.”

Like Son, Like Father

Having reached the final table, Yosef contacted his son Jorden and the 2019 braclet winner drove to Las Vegas through the night from his home in Madison to Chicago, where he caught a red eye. Jorden arrived in Sin City just 20 minutes before cards went in the air at the final table. When Yosef pulled the $250,000 bounty, he sent it home on FaceTime it live to his wife and grandson back home.

“I can’t believe the bounty lasted until [five] players left, but they got to see it,” he said.

Both Yosef and Jorden Fox seem to be driven on to further success by each other’s progression in poker. Back in 2015, Yosef finished in 100^th place in the $10,000 WSOP Main Event$46,890. Three years after that, Jorden came 27^th for $282,630. Then, 12 months on, Jorden’s bracelet win came in 2019 for $420,693. Six years on, Yosef has a WSOP bracelet of his own.

What’s coolest is that Yosef has another son, and Jorden a brother. Levi Fox played and cashed the 2017 WSOP Tag Team event with Dad Yosef. There could be a third Fox ‘WSOP Club’ member.

“If Levi can get one, we will be the next Brunsons!” said Yosef as he celebrated the latest Fox family victory in Vegas.

If we were Yosef’s wife, we’d be looking at WSOP Online events.

Paul Seaton, an esteemed figure in the poker community with over ten years of experience, has provided live coverage from renowned poker tournaments like the World Series of Poker, European Poker Tour, and World Poker Tour. His involvement goes beyond observation; he has served as the Editor of BLUFF Europe Magazine and Head of Media for partypoker.