William Alex Foxen (born February 1, 1991) is an American poker player from Huntington, New York. Foxen attended Boston College, where he played tight end on the school's football team. In 2012, at the age of 21, he won the first World Series of Poker circuit event he entered in New Orleans. He however declared that he didn't start playing poker seriously until the age of 23, when he graduated from university. At this time, he played online for a couple of years before making a transition to live poker in 2016, starting with small tournaments of $200 to $500 buy-ins.