Artur Martirosian – Photo Credit: Triton Super High Roller Poker Series
Artur Martirosian has been busy in Monte Carlo, cashing in 5 out of the primary six occasions scheduled on the Triton Super High Roller Poker Series.
Although he has been a fixture on the desk for the final 4 days, his win got here shortly within the $30,000 no-limit maintain’em turbo bounty. The rating was good for $891,000 ($360,000 of which have been bounties), placing the Russian poker participant’s profession earnings simply shy of $20 million. This was his fifteenth match victory, and first Triton title.
The win additionally put Martirosian in twenty seventh place within the Card Player Player of the Year standings because of 4,400 factors.
The collection continues to drag sturdy numbers with massive prize swimming pools, and this match was no completely different with $3.15 million within the complete pot because of 105 entries. The high 17 gamers all made the cash. Notables that cashed among the many chaos of the quickly rising blinds earlier than the ultimate desk included high high-stakes professionals Danny Tang (eleventh), Dan Smith (twelfth), Seth Davies (14th), and Brian Kim (fifteenth).
It surprisingly took two full ranges of play after shuffle up and deal on the ultimate desk earlier than Paulius Vaitiekunas fell in ninth place, and Espen Jostad exited in eighth place. They each fell on the toes of Martirosian, who took the chip lead after eliminating each opponents on the identical hand.
Martirosian was clearly within the lead, and there have been so few chips left in circulation among the many remainder of the ultimate desk that it was solely a brief matter of time earlier than destiny in the end performed its hand. Martirosian took out David Benefield in sixth place, after which he scored one other double knockout by sending Ren Lin (fifth place) and Adrian Mateos (fourth place) packing in the identical hand for a second time on the evening.
It wasn’t all unhealthy for Mateos, who elevated his Card Player POY race factors as much as 10,174 within the race because of the money. The $313,000 payout gave him greater than $11 million for the yr, and a large 1,874-point lead over David Coleman in second place.
A 3-way all-in despatched Jamil Wakil house in third place. Nikita Kuznetcov gained the principle pot in that hand to have a combating likelihood within the heads-up ultimate with 30 large blinds towards the 58 of Martirosian.
The two Russian gamers confronted off principally in silence as Kuznetcov scored two early doubles earlier than Martirosian scored one among his personal to take again the lead. There have been solely 37 blinds left on the desk when Kuznetcov received all briefly holding Okay-5 offsuit towards the 10-9 suited of Martirosian. A second 9 hit on the board, and Martirosian was topped the champion. He congratulated his countrymen Kuznetcov, who took house $358,000 together with one other $80,000 in bounties.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Payout | POY |
| 1 | Artur Martirosian | $891,000 | 840 |
| 2 | Nikita Kuznetcov | $438,000 | 700 |
| 3 | Jamil Wakil | $353,000 | 560 |
| 4 | Adrian Mateos | $313,000 | 420 |
| 5 | Ren Lin | $236,000 | 350 |
| 6 | David Benefield | $163,000 | 280 |
| 7 | Benjamin Tollerene | $134,000 | 210 |
| 8 | Espen Jorstad | $111,000 | 140 |
| 9 | Paulius Vaitiekunas | $93,000 | 70 |
The Triton Super High Roller Poker Series in Monte Carlo is hitting the mid-way level with tournaments working from Nov. 1-14 on the shores of the Mediterranean. Stay tuned to Card Player for recaps all through this marquee match collection that includes the very best poker gamers on the planet.
