Artur Martirosian added another major title to one of poker’s strongest high roller resumes, winning WSOP Event 38: $25,000 No Limit Hold’em High Roller 6 Handed for $1,286,285.
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Martirosian has now won all four of his WSOP bracelets in the last four years. The 28-year-old Russian pro beat a loaded field in WSOP Event 38: $25,000 No Limit Hold’em High Roller 6 Handed to record his eighth live seven-figure score.
The win also pushed Martirosian past $40 million in career tournament earnings. That total places him far ahead of every other Russian poker player on the all-time live earnings list.
His latest bracelet follows two WSOP wins in 2023 and the $25,000 WSOP Heads-Up Championship title in 2025. He also owns four Triton Super High Roller Series titles, which adds more weight to his high roller record.
Martirosian closed out WSOP Event 38: $25,000 No Limit Hold’em High Roller 6 Handed by beating Czech pro Pavel Plesuv heads-up. Plesuv, who won the 2023 WSOP Millionaire Maker and a World Poker Tour title in 2018, earned $857,510 for second place. That was the third-largest live cash of his career.
Martirosian said:
“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.”
Seven players returned for the final day of WSOP Event 38: $25,000 No Limit Hold’em High Roller 6 Handed from the original 242-entry field. The event built a $5,687,000 prize pool. Sean Winter began the day with the chip lead, while Martirosian sat close behind. Erik Seidel, a 10-time bracelet winner and Poker Hall of Famer, had already fallen in ninth place for $89,378.
Martirosian took over during the final table and held control for most of the late stretch. Klemens Roiter fell in seventh, Chance Kornuth went out in sixth after Yosuke Miki improved with queens, and Marius Gierse exited in fifth after Martirosian flopped a flush against two pair. Miki finished fourth when his ace-ten failed to catch Martirosian’s ace-jack. Winter then lost a major pot to Plesuv, whose set of nines beat top pair, sending Winter out in third for $597,635. Heads-up play shifted several times before Martirosian called Plesuv’s shove with pocket fours against ace-nine and held on a king-high board.
| Place | Player | Payout |
| 1 | Artur Martirosian | $1,286,285 |
| 2 | Pavel Plesuv | $857,510 |
| 3 | Sean Winter | $597,635 |
| 4 | Yosuke Miki | $421,718 |
| 5 | Marius Gierse | $301,347 |
| 6 | Chance Kornuth | $218,091 |