Seth Davies is a World Poker Tour champion with tens of hundreds of thousands in event earnings. Whereas he ascended to the best stakes on the circuit years in the past and has discovered loads of success there, his resume had been missing a marquee win within the nosebleeds. That each one modified on Sunday, Aug. 25 when Davies battled his approach by means of an elite area of 24 gamers to win the $300,000 buy-in 2024 Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl IX no-limit maintain’em occasion. Davies earned a career-best payday of $3,206,000 because the champion, rising his profession haul to $29,680,068 within the course of.
This was practically thrice bigger than any earlier rating for Davies. His next-largest money was the $1,078,347 he earned because the runner-up within the $100,000 buy-in excessive curler on the 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Journey. This was the eleventh profession win for Davies, who now has 185 recorded in-the-money finishes.
Davies was awarded 360 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors because the champion. This was his second title and twelfth final-table end thus far. With 3,464 whole factors, he now sits in twenty ninth place within the 2024 POY standings offered by World Poker. He’s ranked even greater within the season-long PokerGO Tour standings after this title run. The 600 factors he secured moved him into twelfth place on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.
This occasion ran over the course of three days at Advantage Crystal Cove Lodge and On line casino in Cyprus. The prize pool of $7,056,000 was paid out amongst the highest 4 finishers. Dejan Kaladjurdjevic was knocked out on the cash bubble on the finish of day 2, making certain that the remaining 4 gamers would all money for at the very least $750,000.
That sum was in the end awarded to Germany’s Leonard Maue. He got here into day 3 because the quick stack, and finally ran A-J into the pocket jacks of Davies to complete fourth for a career-high dwell rating.
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Jeremy Ausmus was the subsequent to fall. The six-time bracelet winner known as all-in from the massive blind for his final 15 huge blinds with Ok
9
. Juan Pardo, who had shoved from the small blind, held A6
. The board ran out AOk
5310 and Ausmus was eradicated in third place ($1,200,000). The American now has greater than $23 million in profession earnings after this deep run.
This was the seventeenth last desk of 2024 for Ausmus. With 5,587 POY factors, he has climbed to fifth place on the POY leaderboard. He additionally earned 400 PGT factors, which was sufficient to provide him the outright lead in that factors race. With 2,160 factors, he now sits 325 factors forward of second-ranked Michael Rocco.
Davies took roughly a 4:3 chip lead into heads-up play with Pardo. The ultimate two ended up enjoying simply two fingers towards one another. The ultimate hand started with a increase to 90,000 from Davies with 87 on the button. Pardo known as with 43 from the massive blind and the flop got here down Ok95. Pardo checked and Davies checked behind. The 6 on the flip gave Davies a nine-high straight, whereas Pardo picked up an open-ended draw at a decrease straight. Pardo guess 450,000 into the pot of 360,000 and Davies known as. The river introduced the two, finishing Pardo’s six-high straight whereas additionally making a flush doable. Pardo guess 900,000 into 1,260,000. Davies moved all-in and Pardo known as off his remaining 1,100,000, solely to be proven the next straight.
Pardo earned $1,900,000 because the runner-up. This was the most important event rating thus far for the Spanish poker professional.
Here’s a take a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on the last desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
PGT Factors
1
Seth Davies
$3,206,000
360
600
2
Juan Pardo
$1,900,000
300
450
3
Jeremy Ausmus
$1,200,000
240
400
4
Leonard Maue
$750,000
180
225
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