Artur Martirosian bagged his 11th GGMillion$ title last night, defeating Benjamin Rolle heads-up to smash through the $9million earnings mark for this one tournament alone.
Playing from the Bahamas where the WSOP Paradise festival is currently in the middle of its own $25k Super Main Event, Martirosian was one of 116 entries to the weekly $120k SHR on GGPoker.
That $1,160,000 prizepool was a bit smaller than most weeks, but a seventh spot or better for the Russian would be enough to break that $9million GGMillion$ milestone.
With 81 cashes, 42 final tables and 10 titles already, Martirosian is way out in front of his rivals, as Jeff Gross revealed in his weekly livestream of the final table.
Helped in the commentary booth this week by Brazilian WSOP bracelet winner, Rafael Reis, Gross gave us a rundown of this week’s final nine, which included Swedish online poker beast Niklas Astedt.
Alexander Zubov, Sergei Reixach, Diego Zeiter, Andrii Novak, Marius Gierse, Simon Beckmann, and Benjamin “Bencb” Rolle filled out the stacked table.
Incredibly, despite some shaky small stacks in play, it was a full two hours before Reixach became the first casualty, soon followed by Novak, whose button shove was caught by Rolle in the big blind..
Novak: Q♠ J♠
Rolle: A♥ K♦
Flop: A♠ J♦ A♣
Turn: 6♣
River: 4♣
With the blinds rising, only half the table could feel in any way comfortable stack-wise, and Astedt wasn’t one of them. His squeeze play backfired when the flop hit Rolle square in the face…
The board bricked to send the Swede out in 7th place and he looked like he would be joined on the virtual rail by Zubov, courtesy of a huge bust-up with Martirosian.
Martirosian limped from the hijack and Zubov raised on the button. Beckmann, with only 3 BBs behind, elected to fold, sensing his pocket 7s were likely no good and hoping for a ladder if the Russians went at each other. That’s exactly what happened, all the chips going in…
Martirosian: A♣ K♥
Zubov: Q♠ Q♣
Flop: 3♦ J♦ 9♦
Turn: 2♠
River: K♣
That river left Zubov on fumes, but he somehow tripled next hand and it was indeed Beckmann who would fall in 6th after which Zubov would fall to… Martirosian!
It was an exciting finale and it seemed Martirosian could do no wrong, winning when he got it in good and when he got it in behind, as he did on the flop in the double KO that heralded heads-up play…
It lasted all of two hands between two crushers of the online game, a flip with Rolle at risk after a pre-flop raising war saw all the chips in the middle…
Rolle: A♥ K♦
Martirosian: 9♦ 9♣
Flop: 6♠ 7♣ J♠
Turn: 2♦
River: 7♥
And that meant a record-setting 11th GGMillion$ victory for Martirosian, a number that looks likely to be out of the reach of anyone else for the foreseeable future.
GGMillion$ Final Table result
| 1 | Artur Martirosian | $252,073 |
| 2 | Benjamin Rolle | $196,859 |
| 3 | Diego Zeiter | $153,738 |
| 4 | Marius Gierse | $120,063 |
| 5 | Alexander Zubov | $93,764 |
| 6 | Simon Beckmann | $73,226 |
| 7 | Niklas Astedt | $57,186 |
| 8 | Andrii Novak | $44,660 |
| 9 | Sergei Reixach | $34,877 |
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