Artur Martirosian Nabs 4th Bracelet In WSOP $25,000 6-Max Event

Artur Martirosian has a constant report of outcomes relationship again virtually a decade, however over the past 5 years his match resume places him among the many greatest excessive rollers on the earth. Martirosian claimed his fourth profession World Series of Poker bracelet, all received within the final 4 years, within the $25,000 six-handed no-limit maintain’em excessive curler.

For his newest triumph on a serious poker stage, Martirosian earned $1,286,285, reserving his eighth profession seven-figure dwell end result. It’s his second such rating in 2026, and prolonged Martirosian’s lifetime match earnings to over $40 million, far and away essentially the most of any Russian poker participant in historical past.

Martirosian’s fourth profession bracelet follows a pair of WSOP victories in 2023, and the $25,000 WSOP heads-up championship title in 2025. He additionally has 4 Triton Super High Roller Series wins.

Martirosian defeated his pal, Czech professional Pavel Plesuv, to seal one other spectacular victory. Plesuv, who received the 2023 WSOP Millionaire Maker, and a World Poker Tour title in 2018, settled for $857,510, the third-largest dwell results of his profession.

“I know Pavel pretty well and we are good friends and he’s a good player,” Martirosian informed PokerInformation’ Connor Richards. “It was tough heads up. [He was the] best opponent from [the] final table, after me.”

High curler standout Sean Winter fell simply shy of his first bracelet, settling for third place ($597,635). His profession recorded earnings eclipsed $39 million with that end result.

Martirosian Builds Chip Lead Against Austrians

The last day of motion within the 2026 WSOP $25,000 6-handed no-limit maintain’em excessive curler started at an unofficial last desk, with seven gamers remaining. They’d come a good distance from the sphere of 242 who took their shot at this bracelet, constructing a prize pool of $5,687,000 within the course of. Several heavy hitters fell simply shy of the ultimate day, together with 10-time bracelet winner and Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel, who went out in ninth place ($89,378).

Winter had the chip lead, adopted by Martirosian. Chance Kornuth began seven-handed play on a really brief stack, however discovered a number of doubles early on the ultimate day to stay within the hunt.

Artur Does It Again

One of poker’s most feared high-stakes gamers has one other WSOP title.

Artur Martirosian topped the 242-entry subject in Event #24: $25,000 High Roller 6-Handed, incomes his fourth WSOP bracelet and $1,302,125. pic.twitter.com/pyiQIUGq1Z

— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) June 9, 2026

Austria’s Klemens Roiter fell beneath ten massive blinds, and acquired the final of his chips in with A♦J♣ from the small blind. Martirosian referred to as within the massive blind with Q♦10♠. Roiter remained forward via the flip of an A♥Ok♠10♣8♣ board, however Martiroisan spiked a jack on the river to bust Roiter in seventh place ($159,884).

Kornuth made a pay bounce, and positioned himself for the potential of much more in one other all-in pot. The four-time bracelet winner picked up A♦Ok♥ and had a major benefit over Yosuke Miki’s A♣Q♣. But a queen on the flop and one other on the flip spelled doom for Kornuth, in sixth place ($218,091).

It was round this level within the match that Martirosian took over the chip lead. He wouldn’t cede that benefit once more till hefor a protracted stretch. He took out one other Austrian participant, Marius Gierse, in a battle of blinds, when Martirosian’s Ok♥3♥ flopped the nut flush towards Gierse’s two-pair, aces and nines. Gierse, whose earlier greatest end on the WSOP was a second-place end in a $5,000 no-limit maintain’em/pot-limit Omaha occasion in 2022, went out in fifth place ($301,347).

More Gold For Martirosian

Miki was making an attempt to make it three bracelets for Japan inside every week on the 2026 WSOP. He was coming off of his first ever six-figure dwell match money in March, at Triton Jeju. Now Miki was within the combine four-handed for a bracelet and a seven-figure money. He picked a nasty time to take a stand towards Martirosian, and Miki’s A♣10♦ failed to the touch the board towards Martirosian’s A♥J♦. Instead, Miki completed in fourth place, good for $421,718, his second-largest end result up to now.

Winter’s stack tumbled, however he stood sturdy as he battled three-handed. He picked off a giant bluff from Plesuv, appropriately calling off his stack with ace-high on the river of a 4♣4♠3♠J♥2♠ board. But a cooler quickly thereafter dashed Winter’s hopes that this might lastly be the day for his first bracelet win. Winter three-bet shoved a Ok♥Q♦9♥ flop, and Plesuv snap-called with a set of nines. Winter’s A♠Ok♦ paled as compared, and although Winter picked up a gutshot straight draw on the flip, it wasn’t meant to be.

For the primary time in hours, Martirosian wasn’t within the chip lead. Plesuv’s elimination off Winter gave him a slight edge to begin heads-up play. He and Martirosian traded the large stack a number of instances early on of their heads-up match. Martirosian went on a run and took a 7:1 chip lead, however Plesuv held powerful, doubling up and selecting up sufficient pots to remain afloat.

Eventually, it got here all the way down to a coin flip, with Plesuv in place to probably even up the chip counts but once more.. Plesuv limp-shoved with A♥9♦, and Martirosian referred to as with pocket fours. Martirosian dodged all the things on a Ok♠10♣3♥Q♠5♣ runout to safe his victory.

Another Big Year In 2026

After ending fifth within the 2025 Card Player Player of the Year race, Martirosian is correct again within the thick of issues in 2026. For this win, Martirosian earned 1,428 POY factors, pushing him simply previous Jesse Lonis into twelfth on the yearlong leaderboard offered by CoinPoker.

This occasion’s lofty buy-in additionally certified it as an official PokerGO Tour occasion as effectively. Martirosian banked 700 PGT factors in direction of the season-long excessive stakes leaderboard, in his first qualifying end result for that tour in 2026. That’s adequate for a tie for thirteenth place in a single end result, although he’ll need to put up outcomes contained in the PokerGO Studio in some unspecified time in the future this season in an effort to qualify for the $1 million PGT Championship.

Final Table Results

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