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

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 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 A6. The board ran out AK5310 and Ausmus was eliminated in third place ($1,200,000). The American now has more than $23 million in career earnings after this deep run.

This was the 17th final table of 2024 for Ausmus. With 5,587 POY points, he has climbed to fifth place on the POY leaderboard. He also earned 400 PGT points, which was enough to give him the outright lead in that points race. With 2,160 points, he now sits 325 points ahead of second-ranked Michael Rocco.

Davies took roughly a 4:3 chip lead into heads-up play with Pardo. The final two ended up playing just two hands against each other. The final hand began with a raise to 90,000 from Davies with 87 on the button. Pardo called with 43 from the big blind and the flop came down K95. Pardo checked and Davies checked behind. The 6 on the turn gave Davies a nine-high straight, while Pardo picked up an open-ended draw at a lower straight. Pardo bet 450,000 into the pot of 360,000 and Davies called. The river brought the 2, completing Pardo’s six-high straight while also making a flush possible. Pardo bet 900,000 into 1,260,000. Davies moved all-in and Pardo called off his remaining 1,100,000, only to be shown a higher straight.

Pardo earned $1,900,000 as the runner-up. This was the largest tournament score to date for the Spanish poker pro.

Here is a look at the payouts and rankings points awarded at the final table:

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