Artur Martirosian Wins 4th Bracelet In WSOP $25,000 6-Handed High Roller

Artur Martirosian has a consistent record of results dating back almost a decade, but over the last five years his tournament resume puts him among the best high rollers in the world. Martirosian claimed his fourth career World Series of Poker bracelet, all won in the last four years, in the $25,000 six-handed no-limit hold’em high roller.

For his latest triumph on a major poker stage, Martirosian earned $1,286,285, booking his eighth career seven-figure live result. It’s his second such score in 2026, and extended Martirosian’s lifetime tournament earnings to over $40 million, far and away the most of any Russian poker player in history.

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

Martirosian defeated his friend, Czech pro Pavel Plesuv, to seal another impressive victory. Plesuv, who won the 2023 WSOP Millionaire Maker, and a World Poker Tour title in 2018, settled for $857,510, the third-largest live result of his career.

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

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

Martirosian Builds Chip Lead Against Austrians

The final day of action in the 2026 WSOP $25,000 6-handed no-limit hold’em high roller began at an unofficial final table, with seven players remaining. They’d come a long way from the field of 242 who took their shot at this bracelet, building a prize pool of $5,687,000 in the process. Several heavy hitters fell just shy of the final day, including 10-time bracelet winner and Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel, who went out in ninth place ($89,378).

Winter had the chip lead, followed by Martirosian. Chance Kornuth started seven-handed play on a very short stack, but found multiple doubles early on the final day to remain in the hunt.

Artur Does It Again

One of poker’s most feared high-stakes players has another WSOP title.

Artur Martirosian topped the 242-entry field in Event #24: $25,000 High Roller 6-Handed, earning 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 below ten big blinds, and got the last of his chips in with A♦J♣ from the small blind. Martirosian called in the big blind with Q♦10♠. Roiter remained ahead through the turn of an A♥K♠10♣8♣ board, but Martiroisan spiked a jack on the river to bust Roiter in seventh place ($159,884).

Kornuth made a pay jump, and positioned himself for the potential of a lot more in another all-in pot. The four-time bracelet winner picked up A♦K♥ and had a significant advantage over Yosuke Miki’s A♣Q♣. But a queen on the flop and another on the turn spelled doom for Kornuth, in sixth place ($218,091).

It was around this point in the tournament that Martirosian took over the chip lead. He wouldn’t cede that advantage again until hefor a long stretch. He took out another Austrian player, Marius Gierse, in a battle of blinds, when Martirosian’s K♥3♥ flopped the nut flush against Gierse’s two-pair, aces and nines. Gierse, whose previous best finish at the WSOP was a second-place finish in a $5,000 no-limit hold’em/pot-limit Omaha event in 2022, went out in fifth place ($301,347).

More Gold For Martirosian

Miki was trying to make it three bracelets for Japan inside of a week at the 2026 WSOP. He was coming off of his first ever six-figure live tournament cash in March, at Triton Jeju. Now Miki was in the mix four-handed for a bracelet and a seven-figure cash. He picked a bad time to take a stand against Martirosian, and Miki’s A♣10♦ failed to touch the board against Martirosian’s A♥J♦. Instead, Miki finished in fourth place, good for $421,718, his second-largest result to date.

Winter’s stack tumbled, but he stood strong as he battled three-handed. He picked off a big bluff from Plesuv, correctly calling off his stack with ace-high on the river of a 4♣4♠3♠J♥2♠ board. But a cooler soon thereafter dashed Winter’s hopes that this would finally be the day for his first bracelet win. Winter three-bet shoved a K♥Q♦9♥ flop, and Plesuv snap-called with a set of nines. Winter’s A♠K♦ paled in comparison, and though Winter picked up a gutshot straight draw on the turn, it wasn’t meant to be.

For the first time in hours, Martirosian wasn’t in the chip lead. Plesuv’s elimination off Winter gave him a slight edge to start heads-up play. He and Martirosian traded the big stack several times early on in their heads-up match. Martirosian went on a run and took a 7:1 chip lead, but Plesuv held tough, doubling up and picking up enough pots to stay afloat.

Eventually, it came down to a coin flip, with Plesuv in position to potentially even up the chip counts yet again.. Plesuv limp-shoved with A♥9♦, and Martirosian called with pocket fours. Martirosian dodged everything on a K♠10♣3♥Q♠5♣ runout to secure his victory.

Another Big Year In 2026

After finishing fifth in the 2025 Card Player Player of the Year race, Martirosian is right back in the thick of things in 2026. For this win, Martirosian earned 1,428 POY points, pushing him just past Jesse Lonis into 12th on the yearlong leaderboard presented by CoinPoker.

This event’s lofty buy-in also qualified it as an official PokerGO Tour event as well. Martirosian banked 700 PGT points towards the season-long high stakes leaderboard, in his first qualifying result for that tour in 2026. That’s good enough for a tie for 13th place in a single result, though he’ll have to post results inside the PokerGO Studio at some point this season in order to qualify for the $1 million PGT Championship.

Final Table Results

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