Seth Davies recently won the Super High Roller Bowl: $100k Pot Limit Omaha event for a massive $1.5 million, just two months after a career-high $3.2 million win in the $300k No Limit Hold’em 7-Max Super High Roller Bowl.
Those two tournament wins represent the two best scores of his poker career so far, and they’ve given him a shot at making even bigger headlines by 2025 as a potential Player of the Year.
- +450 PokerGO Tour points, moving him up to 3rd
- +600 Card Player Player of the Year points, placing him 14th
These high buy-in, high reward events can quickly tip the scales when looking at results, but this is not an isolated victory. Davies has been prolific in 2024. Here’s what he’s already achieved this year:
- Over $8.6m in tournament cashes
- 15 final tables
- 3 tournament wins
- Climbed to 23rd on poker’s All-Time Money List
But that doesn’t mean it was all smooth sailing. In his $100k PLO win, Davies came back from just two big blinds at the final table to win the event outright, proving that you truly do only need a chip and a chair. Here’s how the final table payouts looked:
| Position | Player | Payout |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seth Davies | $1,500,000 |
| 2 | Artem Maksimov | $900,000 |
| 3 | Sean Winter | $600,000 |
| 4 | Jared Bleznick | $450,000 |
| 5 | Josh Arieh | $330,000 |
| 6 | Sam Soverel | $250,000 |
| 7 | Benjamin Tollerene | $170,000 |
It was Jeremy Ausmus of all players who burst the money bubble after being eliminated by Artem Maksimov. The rest of the field breathed a collective sigh of relief, as the 45-year-old American has been running hot in 2024 and is on track to top the PGT Leaderboard.
Benjamin Tollerene (7th) and Sam Soverel (6th) both fell before Day 1 came to a close, leaving five players for the Day 2 final table. Davies was far from the favorite when action began on Day 2, with Jared Bleznick not only boasting the chip lead, but also having the huge psychological edge of being the defending champion. Back-to-back wins were within reach.
Arieh First to Fall
Short stack Josh Arieh was the first player to hit the rail on Day 2, with Sean Winter moving into pole position.
Meanwhile, four-handed and with a relatively short stack, things were getting desperate for Davies, and an ill-timed bluff saw him relegated to just a couple of big blinds.
He rallied enough to stay in the game and then took a step back as a blank river meant Maksimov doubled through Bleznick, holding the ace-high straight against the returning champ’s three pair and nut flush draw.
That hand proved to be too crushing for Bleznick to come back from, and Davies was the one to finish him off with Q♥J♣9♥9♣. Bleznick was willing to get it all in with A♠Q♠7♦7♣ on the A♥9♠8♦ flop but, despite turning a flush draw to spice things up, the set of nines were good.
The Final Three
Sean Winter’s time was coming. He raised it up with A♠A♦9♦3♠ and fired on every street after improving to a full house. But the K♥10♥7♠10♣10♦ runout had improved Davies from his flopped two pair to quads, giving him more than a 2:1 lead going into heads-up play against Maksimov.
Maksimov, who was now guaranteed the biggest score of his tournament career, was recovering until Davies hit trip sixes and pulled away again. When Maksimov picked up A♠K♣8♣7♠ and three-bet to 900,000, he had less than a pot-sized shove left for the Q♥4♥3♦ flop. But it wasn’t an easy call for Davies, who only had middle pair with A♥J♠6♠4♣.
Ultimately, he did make the call as a 2:1 favorite and the 5♦ turn and 4♦ river meant Davies had bagged $1.5m and another Super High Roller Bowl victory.