The WSOP's $250,000 Super High Roller isn't exactly one for tourists. The biggest buy-in of the summer brings out the biggest names and some of the toughest competition you'll find anywhere in town.
Of course, it also brings with it the big bucks, and Seth Davies' victory over the stacked field came with a reward worth $4,752,551, along with the first WSOP bracelet of an already-stellar career.
That mighty payday is the largest so far for Davies, who has now racked up over $44M in tournament earnings.
You can watch what happens after you win $4.7M above, and read all about the story of the final table, but nothing beats hearing the tale straight from the source. That's why we grabbed Davies for an interview just a soon as we could.
'I’m a little bit more free and less attached to results'
Congratulations on a monster $4.7 million score and your first WSOP bracelet. Was winning a bracelet always a goal for you?
I wouldn’t say I was laser-focused on winning a bracelet but it’s a signal of longevity in my career and that’s what’s important to me.
You won your first Triton title in May and then followed that up with a $4.2 million runner-up finish in the $200K. You must have thought that was the peak for the year?
Yeah, it’s pretty crazy. You don’t stack two scores like that too often so I’m absolutely blown away and so fortunate I can’t even begin to describe it.
Have you changed anything up?
I’m a little bit more free and less attached to results and I think that has affected my play in some ways, especially when the stakes get really high.
Today I had a hand where I ran a big bluff with pocket sixes, and it was like A-K-4-x-Q and that’s a spot where, if you’re open to the fact that you might not necessarily win, you’re more free to do it and I felt it was correct in the moment.
If you’re very attached and feeling like ‘I can’t bust this tournament’, then it’s much harder to pull the trigger on something like that.
That sounds similar to the huge hand on the bubble of the tournament between David Peters and Martin Kabrhel.
That’s a perfect example, and that was an incredible hand. There were 200 people on the rail watching him. As soon as he announced all-in they were like ‘Ohhhh!!!’ It was like it was straight out of a movie. It was one of the coolest hands I’ve ever seen happen.
Talking of Martin Kabrhel, he’s very entertaining to watch — what’s he like to play with?
I’ve had a better time dealing with him lately because I’ve just been a lot more friendly to him and we’ve had a better dynamic.
He’s very good at doing what he does and that’s getting under people’s skin. At times it’s not fun, even to watch, when he’s digging at people who are clearly upset. I don’t like that part. But, you know, everyone gets to behave how they want to a certain extent obviously, and I’m just glad that I’ve built up more of a friendly vibe with him.
A lot of us are realizing that’s the way to deal with him and it makes playing with him more enjoyable.
You’ve been posting updates on X and you’ve said you’re going to play a full summer schedule and that it might not happen again.
I planned on playing a lot this summer. It’s kind of a unique situation where my family is out of town for June and I just don’t see that happening again in the future. It’s a great opportunity for me to spend all day playing poker.
It’s been fun posting all of these updates and tomorrow I get to post an update talking about a win for $4.7 million. It’s worked out well.
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