Excessive-stakes match common Seth Davies secured the rating of his lifetime by successful the PokerGO Tour’s Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl IX’s $306,000 buy-in occasion in Cyprus this weekend for $3 million. He tripled his career-best with the victory.
The nosebleed occasion attracted 24 entries, constructing prize pool only a whisker above $7 million. Solely the highest 4 would money, with all however fourth securing no less than $1 million — minus the big buy-in.
Davies joins an inventory of Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl winners that embrace Brian Rast, Rainer Kempe, Christoph Vogelsang, Justin Bonomo, Isaac Haxton, Cary Katz, Daniel Dvoress, Timothy Adams, Wiktor Malinowski, Michael Addamo, and Daniel Negreanu.
He not solely joins that checklist of unbelievable gamers, however with greater than $29,268,000 in lifetime match earnings, he now sits twenty sixth on the Hendon Mob’s all-time cash checklist. His Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl victory pushed him over 2024 WSOP Participant of the Yr Scott Seiver, Brian Rast, Antonio Esfandiari, Michael Watson, Danny Tang, and Daniel Colman on the cash checklist.
Not unhealthy for a person who mentioned he hardly received to the touch $100 payments when he was a younger man.
‘There for the taking’
Davies journey to the very best ranges of poker competitors started when in highschool, taking part in nickel-dime poker on-line. His older brother performed, and as a three-sport athlete, the competitors got here simply for him. A baseball outfielder who was ok to get a scholarship to play in faculty, he instantly confronted a yr off due to an elbow harm.
It was one in all a collection of accidents that ultimately drummed him out of organized baseball. However throughout his restoration, he made about $500 per week taking part in multi-table sit ‘n goes till it was time for him graduate and to resolve what his future can be in 2009. Since he was doing properly with poker, he stayed with it and by no means regarded again.
The 35-year-old from Bend, Oregon, beloved that poker was so individualistic and self-sufficient, however there was additionally one thing else extraordinarily enticing to Davies — the cash.
“So far as successful in poker, every part relies on your self,” he informed Card Participant Journal in 2020. “At the moment when there was a lot cash within the sport in the course of the increase, it was very life like to make critical cash by yourself advantage.
And being a child on the finish of highschool, that was superior. I had by no means seen greater than $100 in entrance of me at a time earlier than. After which rapidly, I’m watching these 18-year-old youngsters making tons and tons of cash taking part in poker and it was merely simply because they have been good and labored onerous to get good at it.
So yeah, that was probably the most interesting factor. It was merely, ‘That is one thing that’s there for the taking and all that it takes is difficult work.’”
It took about 10 years, however Davie went from banging $25 buy-in sin ‘n goes on Full Tilt to coming into, inserting and successful a number of the highest buy-in occasions on the earth. His second largest money of $1,078,347 got here for ending second within the $100,000 PokerStars Caribbean Journey in January 2023.
His first $1 million money got here within the $250,000 buy-in Tremendous Excessive Curler Bahamas in 2020 when he completed fifth. He has extra six-figure cashes than the celebrities – and stripes — on the American flag. And the younger man appears to be simply heating up.
