Seth Davies is a World Poker Tour champion with tens of millions in tournament earnings. While he ascended to the highest stakes on the circuit years ago and has found plenty of success there, his resume had been lacking a marquee win in the nosebleeds. That all changed on Sunday, Aug. 25 when Davies battled his way through an elite field of 24 players to win the $300,000 buy-in 2024 Super High Roller Bowl IX no-limit hold’em event. Davies earned a career-best payday of $3,206,000 as the champion, growing his career haul to $29,680,068 in the process.
This was nearly three times larger than any previous score for Davies. His next-largest cash was the $1,078,347 he earned as the runner-up in the $100,000 buy-in high roller at the 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. This was the 11th career win for Davies, who now has 185 recorded in-the-money finishes.
Davies was awarded 360 Card Player Player of the Year points as the champion. This was his second title and 12th final-table finish so far. With 3,464 total points, he now sits in 29th place in the 2024 POY standings presented by Global Poker. He is ranked even higher in the season-long PokerGO Tour standings after this title run. The 600 points he secured moved him into 12th place on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.
This event ran over the course of three days at Merit Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino in Cyprus. The prize pool of $7,056,000 was paid out amongst the top four finishers. Dejan Kaladjurdjevic was knocked out on the money bubble at the end of day 2, ensuring that the remaining four players would all cash for at least $750,000.
That sum was ultimately awarded to Germany’s Leonard Maue. He came into day 3 as the short stack, and eventually ran A-J into the pocket jacks of Davies to finish fourth for a career-high live score. Jeremy Ausmus Jeremy Ausmus was the next to fall. The six-time bracelet winner called all-in from the big blind for his last 15 big blinds with K9. Juan Pardo, who had shoved from the small blind, held […]
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