Running as part of the prestigious PGT 2024 Super High Roller Series at the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel & Spa in North Cyprus, Super High Roller Bowl IX, has crowned its winner in Seth Davies, who pulled off a massive bluff in a crucial pot, a hand that helped propel the American poker legend to a Super High Roller Bowl Cyprus win worth $3,206,000 and his second PGT title. This victory marked his career-high score, topping his previous best $1,078,347 score for a runner-up in the 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100k Super High Roller. After the latest win, his live tournament earnings grow to more than $29,268,411.
With the victory, Davies also joined the elite list of Super High Roller Bowl winners who include the likes of Brian Rast, Rainer Kempe, Christoph Vogelsang, Justin Bonomo, Isaac Haxton, Cary Katz, Daniel Dvoress, Timothy Adams, Wiktor Malinowski, Michael Addamo, and Daniel Negreanu.
Super High Roller Bowl IX Quick Recap
The $300,000 buy-in PokerGO Tour event drew a star-studded field of 24 entrants, creating $7,056,000 in the final prize pool. Some of the top poker pros of the world such as Davies, 11-time bracelet winner Phil Ivey, and 6-time bracelet Jeremy Ausmus and India’s two-time bracelet Santhosh Suvarna competed in this event. While Iyey and Suvarna failed to reach money, Ausmus finished third for an impressive $1,200,000, his second seven-figure score of 2024 trailing his $1,892,260, which he earned this summer at WSOP 2024 $100k No Limit Hold’em High Roller (Event #47) for his runner-up finish.
The event ran over the course of three days and paid out the top four finishers. The final day saw the final four return to battle it out for the title, with Spaniard Juan Pardo holding the chip lead and being ahead of Davies and Leonard Maue. The first elimination of the day came in Germany’s Leonard Maue. Down to 11 bb, he shoved with ace-jack and Davies called the all-in with pocket jacks. The board bricked out, and Maue was eliminated in fourth place for $750,000 – his career-high score.
At the start of the three-handed play, Davies held 2.8 million ahead of Ausmus’ 2.25 million and Pardo’s 2.1 million. The key hand of the tournament occurred when Davies attempted a skillful bluff against Pardo, who opened the action with a raise holding Kh 7h and Davies called with 8s 6c. The flop came 4-4-3 and Pardo bet 60k and Devies called.
The 5s on the turn landed, giving some straight draw possibilities. Davies led out with a 90,000 bet, but his opponent responded by raising it to 315,000. Sensing weakness and holding a blocker to the straight with the 6c in his hand, Davies made a bold move by three-betting to 650,000. With just 1.6 million chips remaining, Pardo folded, allowing Davies to scoop the pot with just eight-high. This moved Devies into a massive chip lead among the final three players.
Ausmus then came down to nearly 15 big blinds and called all-in holding Kc 9h against the Ac 6s of Pardo, who had shoved from the small blind. Both an ace and king fell on the flop, but no additional help came for Ausmus, and the six-time bracelet winner eliminated in third place ($1,200,000).
Davies began heads-up holding 4.26 million to 2.94 million lead over Pardo. The heads-up lasted only two hands, with both hands going Davies’ way. On the final hand, Davies raised with 8d 7c and Pardo defended with 4d-3h. After the flop 5c Ks 9c checked through, Davies hit a nine-high straight on the turn 6d, while Pardo picked up a low straight draw. Pardo bet and Davies called. The river brought 2c, giving Pardo a six-high straight. Pardo bet out over half of his chip stack and Davies moved all-in. Pardo tank-called all-in, only to be shown the nut straight of Davies. Pardo was busted in second place and collected $1,900,000 in prize money. This was his career-high score, pushing his live earnings to $13,303,664.
Super High Roller Bowl IX Final Table Payouts
| Place | Player | Prize Money |
| 1st | Seth Davies | $3,206,000 |
| 2nd | Juan Pardo | $1,900,000 |
| 3rd | Jeremy Ausmus | $1,200,000 |
| 4th | Leonard Maue | $750,000 |
A Look at 2024 Super High Roller Series Winners
The Super High Roller Series Cyprus concluded on Sunday with Event #10: $25,750 Pot-Limit Omaha Mystery Bounty crowning its winner in Richard Gryko. Here is a quick look at the winners!
| Event | Winner | Prize |
| Event #1: $25,000 NLH | Roman Hrabec | $316,000 |
| Event #2: $25,000 NLH | Quan Zhou | $316,000 |
| Event #3: $25,000 NLH | Maher Nouira | $333,000 |
| Event #4: $50,000 NLH | Masashi Oya | $535,000 |
| Event #5: $100,000 Main Event | Maksim Vaskresenski | $1,250,000 |
| Event #6: $25,000 Mystery Bounty | Adrian Mateos | $162,000 + $165,000 in bounties |
| Event #7: $300K SHRB | Seth Davies | $3,206,000 |
| Event #8: $25,000 PLO | Martin Dam | $278,000 |
| Event #9: $50,000 PLO | Joni Jouhkimainen | $526,900 |
| Event #10: $25,000 Mystery Bounty | Richard Gryko | $115,000 |
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