PLO Super High Roller Bowl Won for $1.5m by Seth Davies in Las Vegas

Seth Davies rose to 23^rd on the All-Time Money List as he won the PGT PLO Super High Roller in Las Vegas last night for $1.5 million, beating the Russian professional Artem Maksimov heads-up after PLO crushers Jared Bleznick and the six-time WSOP bracelet winner Josh Arieh all fell short on the final day.

Bumper Field for Elite Field Finale

There was a total of 42 total entries in the $100,000-entry PLO Super High Roller Bowl this weekend, with seven players paid and one painful bubble. PokerGO player Jeremy Ausmus was the unfortunate player to miss out on profit in eighth place when he lost out to Artem Maksimov’s turned diamond flush. Ausmus’ exit saw all the other players move into profit on the day, with a min-cash now something they wanted to avoid rather than claim.

The winner of the $25,000 PGT PLO Championship Main Event, Ben Tollerene, was the man to min-cash, winning $170,000 when his 9-8-5-4 lost out to Seth Davies’A-J-9-7 on a board showing A-9-9-7 for trip nines as a meaningless ten on the river reduced the field to six.

Sam Soverel was the next player to leave, with his exit in sixth place earning him a score of $250,000. The American saw his pair of tens on the flop of T-8-2 no match for Artem Maksimov’s pocket queens and that led to Soverel exiting before the final five retired to their Las Vegas rooms for one night of restless sleep.

Final Five Kick Off with Bracelet Winner on the Ropes

“I somehow survived one of my worst poker sessions in a long time.”

Down to the last five players in the event, the pressure was on one of the best in the game, and especially mixed games. Surviving to the final day, the six-time WSOP bracelet winner Josh Arieh wasn’t happy with his Day 2, but was determined to get the job done on the final day.

“I somehow survived one of my worst poker sessions in a long time,” he told his many fans on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Come back tomorrow with five left in the SHRB PLO [with] $1.5m to the winner. Why not me?” Over a hundred investors were cheering him on having grabbed a piece of Arieh in the event via PokerStake and over the series, he’d banked them plenty of profit, but his run to victory was not to be.

All-in with bottom pair and a draw to a wheel straight, Arieh busted in fifth place for $330,000 when he couldn’t make it against the open-ended straight and flush draw belonging to Sean Winter, who eventually won with two pair to reduce the field to four. A long period of play without anyone losing their stack began with Jared Bleznick in the lead but over the course of the next couple of hours, everything was to change.

All Change as Late Drama Prevails

Jared Bleznick won $450,000 in fourth place after going from chip leader to the rail in two hours. In just a couple of weeks, Bleznick will be playing Finnish poker legend Patrik Antonius on PokerGO as part of High Stakes Duel 5 in NLHE and PLO and is no slouch at mixed games. The sports card collecting legend Bleznick called off his stack with A-Q-7-7 on an ace-high flop but lost to Seth Davies’ Q-J-9-9. The eventually winner won with a set of nines after surviving a draw to the Broadway straight.

Down to three, Seth Davies was the shortest but having taken out Bleznick, he was on a roll and that momentum only grew with each passing orbit. Davies made a full house to almost level up the stacks before he made a stunning hand to go into heads-up with the lead.

Sean Winter moved all-in with pocket aces on a board containing three tens but Seth Davies made the call with the last remaining ten in the deck for quads and that sent home Winter home in third place for $600,000. As the heads-up stage began, Artem Maksimov made some moves up the ranks as the Russian got the better of Davies early on, putting himself back in the reckoning.

With Davies having lost a near 3:1 lead, he still had an advantage, but it was more marginal. Taking an important pot with a set of sixes, Davies then called off his stack with just a pair of fours when Maksimov shoved. That proved the correct call, however, as Maksimov had fresh air and couldn’t hit on turn and river as Davies made trips on the river to end the event in his favor.

For Artem Maksimov, it was a rightly deserved score of $900,000 in second place but for Seth Davies, he won the $1.5 million top prize, the second largest of his career after winning over $3 million in Cyprus less than two months ago – also on the Super High Roller Bowl circuit.

Moving into 23^rd place on the All-Time Money List via The Hendon Mob, Seth Davies’ latest major title puts him into the ranks of most successful players in 2024, with plenty of big buy-in events still to come.