Seth Davies Wins Super High Roller Bowl IX For $3.2 Million

Seth Davies is a World Poker Tour champion with tens of tens of millions in event earnings. While he ascended to the best stakes on the circuit years in the past and has discovered loads of success there, his resume had been missing a marquee win within the nosebleeds. That all modified on Sunday, Aug. 25 when Davies battled his approach via an elite area of 24 gamers to win the $300,000 buy-in 2024 Super High Roller Bowl IX no-limit maintain’em occasion. Davies earned a career-best payday of $3,206,000 because the champion, rising his profession haul to $29,680,068 within the course of.

This was almost 3 times bigger than any earlier rating for Davies. His next-largest money was the $1,078,347 he earned because the runner-up within the $100,000 buy-in excessive curler on the 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. This was the eleventh profession win for Davies, who now has 185 recorded in-the-money finishes.

Davies was awarded 360 Card Player Player of the Year factors because the champion. This was his second title and twelfth final-table end thus far. With 3,464 whole factors, he now sits in twenty ninth place within the 2024 POY standings introduced by Global Poker. He is ranked even larger within the season-long PokerGO Tour standings after this title run. The 600 factors he secured moved him into twelfth place on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.

This occasion 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 highest 4 finishers. Dejan Kaladjurdjevic was knocked out on the cash bubble on the finish of day 2, making certain that the remaining 4 gamers would all money for at the least $750,000.

That sum was finally awarded to Germany’s Leonard Maue. He got here into day 3 because the quick stack, and ultimately ran A-J into the pocket jacks of Davies to complete fourth for a career-high dwell rating.

Jeremy Ausmus was the subsequent to fall. The six-time bracelet winner referred to as all-in from the massive blind for his final 15 large blinds with Okay9. Juan Pardo, who had shoved from the small blind, held A6. The board ran out AOkay5310 and Ausmus was eradicated in third place ($1,200,000). The American now has greater than $23 million in profession earnings after this deep run.

This was the seventeenth remaining desk of 2024 for Ausmus. With 5,587 POY factors, he has climbed to fifth place on the POY leaderboard. He additionally earned 400 PGT factors, which was sufficient to present him the outright lead in that factors race. With 2,160 factors, he now sits 325 factors forward of second-ranked Michael Rocco.

Davies took roughly a 4:3 chip lead into heads-up play with Pardo. The remaining two ended up enjoying simply two arms in opposition to one another. The remaining hand started with a increase to 90,000 from Davies with 87 on the button. Pardo referred to as with 43 from the massive blind and the flop got here down Okay95. Pardo checked and Davies checked behind. The 6 on the flip gave Davies a nine-high straight, whereas Pardo picked up an open-ended draw at a decrease straight. Pardo wager 450,000 into the pot of 360,000 and Davies referred to as. The river introduced the two, finishing Pardo’s six-high straight whereas additionally making a flush potential. Pardo wager 900,000 into 1,260,000. Davies moved all-in and Pardo referred to as off his remaining 1,100,000, solely to be proven a better straight.

Pardo earned $1,900,000 because the runner-up. This was the most important event rating so far for the Spanish poker professional.

Here is a take a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on the remaining desk:

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