Artur Martirosian Claims Fourth Bracelet as Winter is the Bridesmaid Yet Again

A final table packed with stars was topped by the Russian player Artur Martirosian last night in the $25,000 6-Max High Roller Event #24 at the 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP). Winning $1.28 million, Martirosian outlasted players such as Sean Winter and Chance Kornuth along the way as he claimed his fourth WSOP title and celebrated an epic victory with friends on the rail in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Mammoth Field Paves Way for Epic Finale

There are 100 bracelets events on this year’s WSOP 2026 schedule, and the latest was a big one. With 242 total entries, a prize pool of $5,687,000 meant that the winner and the winner only would take home seven figures. With seven players left, the final table was led by the American professional Sean Winter, whose stack of 80 big blinds dwarfed everyone except Martirosian, who himself had 65 big blinds.

It didn’t take long to find an elimination, as the Austrian player Klemens busted for $159,884 in seventh place. All-in with just nine big blinds, his ace-jack started ahead against Martirosian’s queen-ten. Indeed, a flop of A-K-T was safe too, as was the eight that landed on the turn. But a jack on the river gave the Russian a Broadway straight and Klemens departed.

Next to go was the four-time WSOP champion Chance Kornuth. The Chip Leader Coaching founder and Americas Cardroom pro had doubled several times since falling to short stack but couldn’t manage it one more time, despite having the best hand. His ace-king fell to the Japanese player Yosuke Miki’s ace-queen when a queen landed on both the flop and turn, catapulting Kornuth from the competition with $218,091 in sixth place.

Miki Tastes His Own Medicine

With just five players left, the other Austrian at the final table saw a chance to put himself back into contention for the podium places. All-in with ace-nine, Marius Gierse was up against Martirosian’s king-three of hearts. The flop came A-T-9 all in hearts to deal the eventual winner a stunning nut flush. Gierse had two pair, but missed his redraws to the full house on turn and river and exited with $301,347.

Yosuke Miki bowed out next, cashing for $421,718 in fourth place after failing to repeat his fortunate win against Chance Kornuth. All-in with ace-ten against the ace-jack of Martirosian, Miki missed five cards at a pair as it came K-9-6-2-2 to send him home outside the top three places.

With play three-handed, Sean Winter must have been hoping that his run without a bracelet was finally over. Many of his greatest results have come as runner-up, too, but neither position was available to him after stunning hand sent him home. On a flop of K-Q-9, Winter got all his chips in when he three-bet shoved, but Pavel Plesuv had flopped bottom set with a pair of nines in his hand and held through turn and river to make the heads-up battle, with Winter claiming $597,635 in third place.

A Fourth Bracelet for Martirosian

With the final battle looming, it looked like a classic on paper. The chips were almost level and with Plesuv and Martirosian good friends off the felt, an epic battle for the bracelet began. It was the eventual winner Martirosian who got off to the getter start, his aggression late in the board proving key as he bullied his way into a swift 2:1 lead.

Plesuv fought back but when his call on the river was met by Martirosian turning over a winning straight, the writing looked on the wall. With 80% of the chips in play, Martirosian moved all-in with pocket fours and had to sweat a coinflip to win it with Plesuv calling holding ace-nine. No help came on the board for the Moldovan professional and he was forced to accept $857,510 as runner-up.

It was Artur Martirosian who could celebrate winning the top prize of $1,286,285and his latest win puts him on four WSOP bracelets. That’s the same number as poker legends like Joe Cada, Mike Matusow and Bobby Baldwin among others. With over $33m in live results and 13 GGMillion$ titles on GGPoker part of the $11 million he’s won on that site alone, Martirosian’s poker career continues to rise like a rocket.

Now in the race to win the 2026 WSOP Player of the Year award, no-one would be surprised if the Russian joined Naoya Kihara on two bracelet wins during this year’s WSOP.

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Photography by Luther Redd for PokerGO at the 2026 World Series of Poker