Seth Davies Wins PLO Super High Roller Bowl for $1.5 million in Las Vegas

The American poker professional Seth Davies won the PokerGO Tour’s PLO Super High Roller at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas last night for a top prize of $1.5 million. At a final table packed with talent, Davies got the better of Russian professional Artem Maksimov heads-up after legendary PLO players such as Sean Winter, Jared Bleznick and the six-time WSOP bracelet winner Josh Arieh all fell short.

Over $4 Million Makes the Prizepool

With 42 entrants in the $100,000 buy-in PLO Super High Roller Bowl, only seven places were paid and that meant pain for whoever would finish in eighth place. It was the PokerGO favorite Jeremy Ausmus who bubbled the event, missing out on a cash worth $170,000 when his lost to the Russian Maksimov’s turned flush as diamonds were everyone’s best friend, as the remaining seven players could battle for victory at least knowing that they had a minimum of $70,000 profit on their entry fee.

It was the $25,000 PGT PLO Championship Main Event winner Ben Tollerene who was the first player to leave with money. Tollerene min-cashed for $170,000 when his lost on a board showing of to Seth Davies’ . A on the river was no help to Tollerene and just six were in the hunt for PGT glory.

Josh Arieh was short with eight, seven and six players left but rallied to double up not once but twice as the six-time WSOP bracelet winner’s experience in PLO games held up. When Sam Soverel took on Maksimov on a flop of , the latter got the pot and eliminated Soverel when his top pair of tens on the flop was no match for the pocket queens in the Russian’s hand.

Final Table Starts with Drama

With five players returning the next day, one of their number wasn’t happy with his performance.

“I somehow survived one of my worst poker sessions in a long time,” he told fans on X. “Come back tomorrow with five left in the SHRB PLO [with] $1.5m to the winner. Why not me!” With 101 people grabbing a piece of Arieh in the event via PokerStake, he’d make them profit overall but his rallying cry unfortunately fell into the echo chamber quickly.

Arieh’s bottom pair and wheel draw was unable to survive against Sean Winter’s open-ended straight and flush draw, with two pair ending up being enough for Winter. Arieh was sent home with $330,000 and with overall winnings in the series of close to half a million, the Atlanta, Georgia player can feel proud of his campaign.

Out in fourth place was Jared Bleznick, who in just a fortnight’s time, will take on Finnish poker legend Patrik Antonius on PokerGO as part of High Stakes Duel 5 in NLHE and PLO. Bleznick got some excellent practice in playing Pot Limit Omaha here as he won $450,000 in fourth place, as a long period without anyone busting ended with the chip leader with four left out before the podium places.

Bleznick called off his stack with after a flop of landed. He was behind Seth Davies’ , however, as a set of nines led to the turn of . Bleznick was live to a Broadway draw but a on the river was a death knell for the American as he lost out to his countryman and Seth Davies survived to fight another day, albeit with just 1,745,000 chips to Maksimov’s 5.74 million and Sean Winter’s 5,115,000.

Winter Comes as Davies Turns on the Sun

With three players left, a full house for Davies almost immediately put him back into contention. With chips very evenly split between the trio, a huge pot in the context of the overall event played out when a board of saw Sean Winter commit his chips with for a full house of tens over aces, but Davies had the nuts with a ten in his hand to take a 2:1 lead into heads-up play thanks to quad tens!

Early exchanges heads-up gave Artem Maksimov some momentum, and he got some back after a vital two pair at showdown reduced his arrears. Another pot came the Russian’s way soon after with a Broadway straight but having got to within range of Davies’, the American pulled away.

A set of sixes and another win without the cards going to showdown put Davies into a dominant lead, with his 9.8 million chips to Maksimov’s 2.8 million and soon it was all over. A flop of prompted a shove from the Russian with and while it was a bluff, Davies had real trouble clicking the call button with . A on the turn changed nothing and Davies’ bottom pair transformed into a set on the river, as he became the Super High Roller Bowl’s PLO champion and took home $1.5m. Maksimov, so close to glory, could at least bank $900,000 as runner-up.