It was an incredible week-and-a-half for Seth Davies as he won over $4.2M in a matter of just 10 days.
His phenomenal run saw Davies eclipse $30,000,000 in career live tournament earnings to move into 25th on the all-time money list. In doing so, he has leapfrogged the likes of Phil Hellmuth, Michael Watson, Daniel Colman, Antonio Esfandiari, Brian Rast, and Scott Seiver.
At the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel & Spa in North Cyprus, Seth Davies tripled his career-high score by winning the ninth edition of the prestigious Super High Roller Bowl, taking home an incredible $3,206,000.
The $300,000 tournament brought in a total of 24 entries, which attracted some of the best players in the world.
The field was cut down to just 14 players after Day 1, which saw the likes of Phil Ivey, Adrian Mateos, Daniel Dvoress, Artur Martirosyan, Nick Petrangelo, and Mikita Badziakouski go bust.
With just four players making the money, it was always going to be an incredibly intense final table. Late on Day 2, the field was finally cut to just seven players, with Davies going in fourth in chips.
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count |
| 1 | Patrick Antonius | Finland | 457,000 |
| 2 | Juan Pardo Dominguez | Spain | 830,000 |
| 3 | Thomas Santerne | France | 310,000 |
| 4 | Jeremy Ausmus | United States | 1,205,000 |
| 5 | Seth Davies | United States | 1,128,000 |
| 6 | Dejan Kaladjurdjevic | Montenegro | 1,751,000 |
| 7 | Leonard Maue | Germany | 1,519,000 |
Juan Pardo absolutely dominated the final table and had little trouble using his wit and his card distribution to become a commanding chip leader.
The final table went on for several hours until Dejan Kaladjurdjevic jammed with ace-deuce from the small blind and Leonard Maue woke up with pocket fives in the big blind.
Maue’s fives would hold to burst the bubble and guarantee the final four a minimum of $750,000 each.
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count |
| 1 | Juan Pardo Dominguez | Spain | 3,500,000 |
| 2 | Jeremy Ausmus | United States | 690,000 |
| 3 | Seth Davies | United States | 2,025,000 |
| 4 | Leonard Maue | Germany | 995,000 |
On Day 3, Davies eliminated Maue when the German jammed 11 bigs with ace-jack into the pocket jacks of Davies, which won after the board ran out ten-high.
From there, Davies made a spectacular play against Pardo to take the overall chip lead, three-betting the turn with a straight draw to grab hold of over half the chips in play.
Davies would later call off Pardo’s king-high bluff with second pair to chip up to well over 4.2 million of the 6.8 million chips in play.
On the next hand, Pardo and Jeremy Ausmus got in preflop with Ausmus calling off 14 bigs with king-nine from the big blind against the ace-six of Pardo.
Ausmus couldn’t improve and went home with $1.2 million, good enough for the third-largest score of his career.
Heads-up play would only last two hands, with Davies going straight-over-straight with eight-seven against the four-three of Pardo.
The Spaniard, understandably, couldn’t find a fold and took home a career-best $1,900,000 to launch himself into third on Spain’s all-time money list (Adrian Mateos, Sergio Aido) and 94th overall with $13.3 million in career live tournament earnings.
For Davies, it was just his second-career SHRB cash, having finished 5th at Super High Roller Bowl Bahamas in 2019 for $1.02 million.
Less than a week later, Davies would finish second in the €100,000 EPT Barcelona Super High Roller for €895,000, suffering a brutal bad beat in heads-up play against Kayhan Mokri, who won the event for a second-straight time.
Despite Davies flopping top-two pair with jack-nine on a jack-nine-eight flop, Mokri hit a set of fives with a five on the turn, which saw all the money go in.
Though Davies couldn’t do the business, few will complain about making over $4 million in the span of a week and a half.