Oregon's Seth Davies is a high roller with almost $45M in tournament earnings, which is good for a top 20 spot on the all-time money list.
He's enjoyed a string of incredible results in 2025, including what was a career-best cash of $4,190,000 at the Triton Super High Roller in Montenegro in May, followed by a new high score at the WSOP.
When he won the $250K Super High Roller last week, he not only added a first WSOP bracelet to his trophy cabinet but also set a new benchmark for himself with a $4,752,551 payday.
PokerOrg caught up with Seth a few days after his monumental first WSOP gold bracelet win to see how it's sunk in. You can watch the interview in full above or read on below for the highlights.
'I had $100K in buy-ins, and my only cash was $900'
It's been cool to see you post your profit and loss each day.
I thought it'd be fun to log in on X and show people what a high-stakes summer looks like. For the first couple of weeks, it was kind of funny that the only cash I had was $900 from a $400 WSOP online tournament.
At one point, I had about $100,000 in buy-ins, and my only cash was the $900. Eventually, I had a couple of cashes in the $25K events, and it started looking a little bit more realistic.
After I bought into the $250K NLH high roller event, I was in for about $440,000 for the series.
You posted a response on Instagram to Daniel Negreanu's remarks on what he believes is the ROI for high-stakes pros, especially from these Triton events.
I wanted to have fun posting the results of a high-stakes player for the WSOP series. In a way, it was partly in response to what Daniel Negreanu has been posting [see below] regarding the buy-ins and profitability for the high-stakes regulars.
I like hanging out with Daniel, and I appreciate what he does for the game. But lately he’s been talking a lot of sh*t about the high-stakes regs. And what he's saying on that podcast is just straight up wrong.
Daniel’s making up these buy-in numbers — they're entirely wrong. He's saying everybody's in for $12,000,000 buy-ins a year. And if you look at the amount of cashes, you can see that nobody's really winning. That's just blatantly wrong.
I'm somebody who plays as much high-stakes tournament poker as anybody on the planet. My most expensive year ever in buy-ins was $7,300,000, not $12,000,000.
No player is in for $2,000,000 every Triton series. Again, I like Daniel, and I'm not talking sh*t about him, but I'm going to fire back because I'm the guy he's talking sh*t about. He's talking about me.
The truth is players are making a lot of goddamn money. They have been for years and years. I had to say something on social media because he's just spreading blatant misinformation.
What are your thoughts on playing with Martin Kabrhel?
I can understand why poker fans and people enjoy watching Martin. He's a personality. He says funny stuff. He's witty. He's clever.
But for players he's playing against, they don't like it. He's the slowest player ever and very passive. If Martin weren't talking the whole time, he would be the most boring poker player of all time. So obviously playing with him sucks because he's constantly wasting everyone’s time.
'Two weeks is an absolute blink of an eye'
What was it like to win the WSOP $250K Super High Roller?
I was coming off the biggest heater of my life when I profited about $6,000,000 in Europe in May, so I had zero stress. I recorded three cashes of $1,000,000 or more, including $4,200,000 in the Triton $200k Invitational.
Not only that, I watched my friends put up huge numbers as well. It was a trip of a lifetime. I couldn’t have imagined that an ever bigger score was only a few weeks away, with my first WSOP bracelet to go along with it.
These last two months have seen me win my first Triton trophy and first bracelet. It’s been extremely gratifying.
And how has the $250K event aftermath been?
I crashed. I get this a lot with tournament trips, whether they go well or badly. It's just a huge crash. As we speak now, it’s been four days since I won the $250K event. I'm just getting over a headache that I’ve had for three days.
I need some rest. As I get older, it's tough to play poker at high stakes because it’s very intense and adrenaline-fueled. You're constantly in that stressed state; it wreaks havoc on your health and your feeling of well-being.
I'm going to take the rest of the summer to ensure I feel good. When I play, I want to feel 100% ready and not play because I feel like I have to be there. But for everyone asking, I will be playing the WSOP Main Event.
