Sean Perry Burns $200K as Seth Davies Leads Super High Roller Bowl XI

By Sandra Gaweda | October 10, 2026 | 4 min read

Sean Perry fired both $100,000 bullets on Day 1 of Super High Roller Bowl XI and busted out of the event.
Alex Foxen ended Perry’s run when his bottom set of threes beat Perry’s top two pair on the river.
Seth Davies ended Day 1 leading the 12 remaining players with 882,000 chips, followed by Alex Foxen with 768,000.
Day 2 was scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. PT on Friday, October 9, with PokerGO coverage starting at 4 p.m. PT.

Sean Perry’s Super High Roller Bowl XI lasted one day and cost him $200,000. Perry fired both of his $100,000 bullets on Thursday, October 8, at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas, according to PokerNews. A bullet is one tournament entry. The event allows only one reentry, so Perry has no way back in.

Seth Davies bagged the chip lead with 882,000. He is one of 12 players who advanced from 23 Day 1 entries. Alex Foxen, who knocked Perry out with a set of threes, finished Day 1 second with 768,000.

How Alex Foxen’s Bottom Set Ended Perry’s Night

Perry’s final hand came during the last level of the night. He raised to 13,000 on the button with J♦9♠, and Foxen called from the small blind with 3♠3♦.

The flop came J♣7♠3♣. Perry had top pair, while Foxen had bottom set, meaning three of a kind made with a pocket pair matching the lowest card on the flop. Foxen checked, and Perry made a 10,000 continuation bet, a follow-up bet from the player who raised before the flop. Foxen check-raised to 29,000, and Perry called.

The 4♦ turn changed nothing. Foxen bet 32,000, and Perry called again. The 9♦ river gave Perry top two pair, jacks and nines.

Foxen bet 150,000, enough to put Perry all in for his remaining 114,000. Perry called, and Foxen’s set held up to eliminate him. Perry improved to top two pair on the river, but Foxen’s flopped set remained ahead. Two pair loses to a set, and Foxen had it from the flop.

Foxen had already hurt Perry on that second bullet. Earlier, Perry’s two pair lost to a Foxen straight.

How Perry Lost His First $100,000 Bullet

Every entry starts with 300,000 in chips. Perry got off to a good start, winning an early pot against Adrian Mateos and Nick Petrangelo, a past Stairway to Millions winner. That pot took Perry to 360,000.

The momentum didn’t last. By Level 4, Perry was down to 23,000. He doubled up twice through Kristen Foxen, but he still lost the stack and paid another $100,000 to reenter.

Seth Davies Finished Day 1 as Chip Leader

Davies finished Day 1 with 882,000, or 110 big blinds. The big blind is the larger of two forced bets each hand. Counting a stack in big blinds shows how much room a player has.

Davies knows how to win this event, having claimed two Super High Roller Bowl titles in 2024. He took $3.2 million in the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl IX in Cyprus. Two months later, he won $1.5 million in the $100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha edition in Las Vegas.

Foxen finished Day 1 second with 768,000 and is in the 2026 WSOP Player of the Year conversation. Defending champion Joao Simao ended the day with 548,000. Simao finished second in this week’s Pot-Limit Omaha edition and has won more than $10 million in tournaments over the past few weeks.

Here is the top 12 heading into Day 2, per PokerNews:

Seth Davies – 882,000
Alex Foxen – 768,000
Igor Yaroshevskyy – 749,000
Talal Shakerchi – 704,000
Jeremy Ausmus – 572,000
Brandon Wilson – 558,000
Joao Simao – 548,000
David Coleman – 533,000
Adrian Mateos – 474,000
Kristen Foxen – 423,000
Jason Koon – 347,000
Brock Wilson – 344,000

How Reentry and Late Registration Shape the Field

A reentry lets a player who busts buy back in for a fresh starting stack. Super High Roller Bowl XI allows one reentry at $100,000, so each player can spend up to $200,000. This is the 11th edition of a series Legal US Poker Sites covered as far back as the second annual Super High Roller Bowl at Aria.

The 17 players who started Day 1 accounted for 23 total entries, including reentries. Perry wasn’t the only player to use both bullets. Ben Tollerene and Vinny Lingham also fired twice and are out.

Nick Schulman, Jesse Lonis, Chris Hunichen and Petrangelo were eliminated on Day 1 but remained eligible to reenter before Day 2 began. Late registration was scheduled to close when play resumed on Friday, October 9.

Day 2 Schedule and Late Registration

Play was scheduled to resume at 1 p.m. PT on Friday, October 9, with PokerGO coverage beginning at 4 p.m. PT.

Late registration remained open until the start of Day 2, giving eliminated players such as Petrangelo and Schulman an opportunity to reenter.

Davies entered Day 2 chasing a third Super High Roller Bowl title. Foxen had one previous cash in the event, finishing runner-up to Isaac Haxton in 2018. Defending champion Simao began Day 2 in the middle of the pack.

Nevada’s Real-Money Online Poker Options

Super High Roller Bowl XI is a live event in Las Vegas, and US players outside the room can follow it on PokerGO. If you’re physically located in Nevada and want to play real-money poker online through a state-regulated site, your options are narrow. Nevada has regulated online poker since 2013 (see our Nevada online poker guide), but WSOP Online is currently the only active regulated real-money online poker site in the state, and you must be physically located in Nevada to play.

Perry’s $200,000 Day 1 ended with a costly river call against Foxen’s flopped set.

Sandra is a content writer and editor specializing in online poker and iGaming. She covers poker sites, game formats, industry news, and US online poker laws for Legal US Poker Sites.