Poker Masters Online: Artur Martirosian Leads Into The Final Weekend

As the Poker Masters Online Series moves into the end boss stage, Artur Martirosian leads after another sterling performance saw him finish third in Event #25: $25,500 No-Limit Hold’em.

The Russian has finished in the money (ITM) eight times during the series while banking $1.2m in gross earnings more than anyone else in the competition.

Martirosian finished behind Samuel ‘€urope€an’ Vousden in the $25,500 pecking order. It’s the Fin’s first cash of the series, and the most substantial of a career that has seen him earn more than $8.3m gross while taking down the Sunday Million, Spring and World Championships of Online Poker (SCOOP & WCOOP) titles.

Vousden is a coach on Patrick Leonard’s bitB Staking platform, and according to his roll call on the bitB website, he has collected $2.5m in profit during 20,000 online multi-table tournaments (MTTs) for an ROI of 86%.

Timothy Adams remains in third place on the Championship Leaderboard after cashing in both Event #25 & #26. Adams has etched up ten cashes, more than anyone else in the tournament.

Pascal Lefrancois has also thrown his chip protector into the ring adding a fourth and fifth a few events shy of picking up his second title of the series. Lefrancois becomes the second player after Martirosian to accumulate more than $1m in gross earnings.

There was also the seventh cash for Joni Jouhkimainen who has been the best performing partypoker ambassador of the series by far.

Here are the results.

Results

  1. Samuel Vousden – $520,000
  2. Wiktor Malinowski – $352,000
  3. Artur Martirosian – $232,000
  4. Pascal Lefrancois – $144,000
  5. Timothy Adams – $112,000
  6. Joni Jouhkimainen – $88,000
  7. Guillaume Nolet – $76,000
  8. Elio Fox – $76,000

Mark Davis Wins Event #26: $10,300 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Max

Mark Davis booked his first ITM finish of the series after winning Event #26: $10,300 NLHE 6-max. Davis beat Rob Lipkin, heads-up, to collect the $284,633 first prize. Lipkin also made his first splash of the series.

The one-time leader, Pauli Ayras, squeezed into the money in 12th place, and Ali Imsirovic finished ninth.

Here are the results.

Results

  1. Mark Davis – $284,653
  2. Rob Lipkin – $177,450
  3. Wiktor Malinowski – $109,200
  4. Pavel Plesuv – $79,625
  5. Pascal Lefrancois – $56,875
  6. Thomas Muehloecker – $38,675
  7. Luuk Gieles – $29,575
  8. Lukas Matthias Nowakowski – $29,575
  9. Ali Imsirovic – $29,575
  10. Nick Petrangelo – $24,932
  11. Timothy Adams – $24,932
  12. Pauli Ayras – $24,932

Championship Leaderboard

  1. Artur Martirosian – 957 pts
  2. Andras Nemeth – 807
  3. Timothy Adams – 799
  4. Pauli Ayras – 747
  5. Alex Foxen – 736