Artur Martirosian Claims Fourth Triton Title With $1 Million PLO Payday in Jeju
Artur Martirosian arrived at the final table of the $50,000 PLO Mystery Bounty at the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series (SHRS) Jeju as one of the shortest stacks in the field. He left with $1,044,000, every bounty envelope on the table, and his fourth SHRS title.
From Short Stack to Champion — How Martirosian Won
The 73-entry field had already been whittled down to a seven-handed final before Martirosian made his move. Sitting with just 29 big blinds — second shortest at the table — he needed an early double to stay relevant. He found it immediately, cracking Jason Koon’s top pair and nut flush draw with a flopped set of queens.
Three hands later, Martirosian was involved in a three-way all-in that eliminated both David Wang and Cesar Garcia simultaneously. His jack-high straight on the river sent Wang out in seventh and Garcia in sixth — and with them went two of the table’s seven bounty envelopes.
He never looked back. Koon, Stephen Chidwick, and Seth Davies all fell to Martirosian before heads-up began against Matthias Eibinger. The Austrian had led for much of the final, but two back-to-back hands settled it: Martirosian turned a boat to take half Eibinger’s stack, then followed it up the very next deal by turning a set of threes to close it out.
Final Table Results
One number stands out from that table: Martirosian’s $550,000 in bounties actually exceeded his first-place prize money. In a Mystery Bounty format, envelopes are drawn at random, meaning no outcome is guaranteed. Knocking out all seven players and still finishing ahead on bounties is a remarkable result — a product of volume, not luck.
The PLO Puzzle — Why Four Triton Titles Tell Only Half the Story
The Triton Poker Super High Roller Series is the highest buy-in touring circuit in the world, where a “small” event costs $25,000 to enter and the largest approach $200,000. The fields are tiny, the players elite, and the edges razor-thin.
Martirosian, 28, has become one of the series’ most decorated champions. His four SHRS titles have come across two years and three stops, and he sits at number one on Russia’s all-time money list with over $29 million in live earnings.
Three of those four wins have come in pot-limit Omaha (PLO), the four-card poker variant that sometimes plays second-fiddle to no-limit hold ’em (NLH). His one NLH title — the $30,000 Bounty Quattro at Monte Carlo in 2024 — came in a fast-turbo format. Every full-length tournament victory he has had in the series has been in PLO.
That hasn’t happened by chance, either. Martirosian has spoken openly about the fact that he began focusing on PLO at the start of the 2024/25 Triton season with a specific goal in mind, and it wasn’t just titles.
There is also a milestone from earlier this month worth noting. Before the Super High Roller series began in Jeju, Martirosian won a $3,000 PLO event at Triton ONE — the lower buy-in sister circuit — making him the first player in history to claim titles on both Triton circuits.
Five trophies across two tours, and four of them in Omaha.
The POY Vow, NLH Drought, and the PLO Answer
When Martirosian collected the Ivan Leow Player of the Year award at a ceremony at the start of this Jeju trip, he made his intentions clear. “I will see you at the tables,” he told the room. It sounded, by all accounts, like a threat.
What followed was two weeks of NLH that didn’t deliver. He cashed twice across the entire hold’em portion of the schedule, with a ninth-place finish as his best result. For a player of his standing, it was a quiet stretch — not a disaster, but far from the statement defense he’d been promising.
Then the PLO events got underway.
He’s the Ivan Leow Player of the Year for a reason.
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Artur Martirosian puts on a PLO masterclass in the $50K Mystery Bounty. pic.twitter.com/UX6rDBEjW7
His first pure Omaha tournament of the Super High Roller Series was the $50,000 Mystery Bounty. He came in short-stacked, navigated one of the toughest final tables on the schedule, knocked out every player at it, and walked away with over a million dollars.
“I come to PLO, and I feel free,” Martirosian said afterward.
It’s a telling choice of words. The POY award is decided on a points system that rewards consistency across an entire season — 20 cashes and three stops worth of results last year built his Season 4 title. But the moments that define his Triton legacy have all come in PLO, in the biggest pots, against the best players in the field.
The NLH drought made the PLO win feel even more poignant. Coming off two difficult weeks, needing a result, and producing that performance — it’s the kind of comeback that separates a player who can run well from one who finds a way to win.
Reading the Record
Martirosian is now 4-for-4 in heads-up appearances at Triton Super High Roller finals. He noted it himself after this win — “I’ve played heads-up four times and four times won. So very good heads-up player,” — and while he said it with a smile, the number is worth sitting with.
Heads-up at a Super High Roller final is not a coin flip. The fields are small enough that the same names appear repeatedly, which means by the time two players are left, both have navigated a full day of the highest-stakes poker on the planet. Sustaining an edge across four of those situations, against opponents like Ben Tollerene and Matthias Eibinger, is not something variance alone explains.
Poker’s short-term randomness is one of the things that makes it compelling — anyone can win a hand, or a session, or a tournament. But over extended play, results start to reflect something more substantial. Martirosian’s Triton record is a useful illustration of what a genuine edge looks like when it compounds.
None of this happened by accident. Martirosian made a deliberate choice to focus on PLO at the start of the 2024/25 season, and his record since then is the clearest possible answer to whether it paid off.
What’s Next for the Defending Player of the Year?
Martirosian’s Season 5 defense is now up and running. One title, one million dollars, and a statement result in the first PLO event of the series — it’s a better start than most players manage across an entire stop.
The Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Jeju continues through April 1, with the $100,000 NLH Main Event still to come. Whether Martirosian can add to his tally in hold’em — the format that has so far eluded him on this trip — remains to be seen.
After Jeju, the tour moves to Budva, Montenegro, for its next stop at the Maestral Resort from May 13–28. It’s where Season 5 of the Player of the Year race will take its next significant turn. Based on the evidence from this week, the defending champion will be ready.
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