The $300,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl is one of the most prestigious high roller events in poker and Seth Davies took down the latest edition on Sunday for $3.2 million.
Davies topped a 24-entry field for the biggest score of his career after beating Spain's Juan Pardo Dominguez ($1.9 million) heads-up in North Cyprus.
He joins some other big names in winning the event including Brian Rast, Rainer Kempe, Christoph Vogelsang, Justin Bonomo, Isaac Haxton, Michael Addamo, and Daniel Negreanu.
Career of Crushing
Davies now has $29.3 million in live poker tournament winnings and is now 26th on poker's all-time money list, according to the Hendon Mob. The win moved him ahead of Scott Seiver, Brian Rast, Antonio Esfandiari, Michael Watson, Danny Tang, and Daniel Colman.
In 2016, Davies won a World Poker Tour title in Canada for $226,893. Some of his other wins have come in Aria Rollers, the Circuit, European Poker Tour, WPT high roller events, other PokerGO Tour events, and more.
Baseball to Big Buy-ins
Originally from Oregon in the U.S., Davies grew up playing sports and was set to play college baseball in Nevada before getting sidelined by injuries. He then turned his focus to poker and spent several years playing online in Mexico.
“Studying isn’t quite as fun as playing poker,” he told PokerNews.
The high roller scene is a unique environment with players buying in for massive amounts of money. The events are a bit of a contrast to tournaments with more average Joe players.
“In the high rollers I'm going to know pretty much every player for the most part – the player pool is pretty small,” he said at the World Series of Poker in 2018. “In a tournament like this that's so huge, I know almost no players. So It's about being more fundamentally sound, not trying to make a mistake yourself first.”
Those sound fundamentals continue paying off for Davies.
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