Artur Martirosian Clinches $87K Score Online at PokerStars

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Feb 20, 2023 4 min read

There are few online poker tournaments that Artur "mararthur1" Martirosian has not won at some stage in his long and illustrious career, and you can knock the $5,200 Titans Event at PokerStars from the Armenia-based Russia's to-win list. Martirosian is the latest poker superstar to take down the Titans Event, with this weekend's tournament awarding an $87,884 top prize.

$5,200 Titans Event Final Table Results

A compact yet stellar field of 49 players descended on PokerStars for the February 19 edition of the $5,200 Titans Event. Only the top six finishers won a slice of the $250,000 prize pool, and it was Jonathan "Proudflop" Proudfoot that busted in seventh place, popping the money bubble and leaving the six surviving players in the money.

Rayan "Beriuzy" Chamas was the first player to collect some prize money. Chamas' sixth-place finish came with $13,223. The final five became four with the untimely demise of Ramiro "ramastar88" Petrone, who helped himself to a $19,313 addition to his bankroll. The player count reduced further with David "MissOracle" Yan ($28,207) and Talal Shakerchi ($41,198) bowing out.

Martirosian and "Sintoras" fought it out heads-up for the title and the $87,884 top prize. Martirosian got the job done, leaving Sintoras to head into the night with a $60,172 consolation prize.

"977sanek977" Secures Sunday High Roller Title

The $1,050 Sunday High Roller was contested by 124 entrants who fought it out for the largest slice of the $124,000 prize pool. Such high buy-in tournaments attract the cream of the crop, and this event was no different.

Sweden's "Hendurr" was the final table's first casualty; his exit in ninth came with $3,122. Indonesia-based Australian Stevan "random_chu" Chew ($3,567) and Anatoly "NL_Proit" Filatov ($8,313 were the next players heading for the exits before Vojta "vojta555cz" Skalak bowed out in sixth for $9,004.

Next to bust was "A.Wesker999" ($5,041), who was joined in the role of a spectator first by "Sergey260594" ($7,468) and then by "_m0ney2_89" of Belarus ($16,022). Those eliminations left "977sanek977" heads-up against the bubble boy of the Titans Event, Jonathan "Proudflop" Proudfoot. Both players locked in $12,030 from the main prize pool, but the final bounty payment was larger than that payout. Eventually, 977sanek977 defeated Proudfoot heads-up and received a $15,890 bounty payment, taking their total score to $27,920.

$1,050 Sunday High Roller Final Table Results

Other PokerStars Results Worth $10,000+

There were victories on February 19 for the likes of Leandro "leitalopez" Bustillo, Stephen "woody1234321" Woodhead, Christian "WATnlos" Rudolph, and Jans "Graftekkel" Arends. Congratulations!

*includes bounty payments

Tomi Brouk Takes Down the PartyPoker Grand

Finnish high-stakes specialist Tomi Brouk took down The Grand at PartyPoker, a $1,050 buy-in $75,000 guaranteed tournament that saw the top 13 finishers see a return on their investment.

Patrick Lauber was the last player that went home empty-handed, with such luminaries as David Yan, and Team PartyPoker's Jaime Staples crashing out during the first payout levels.

The final table was a cosmopolitan affair with eight countries represented. Brazil's Matias Terrana ($2,890) was the first to bust. Yannick De Raeve ($3,184) of Belgium followed suit, while Vladimir Minko ($3,438), Josh Hopkins ($4,011), and Andrei Kotelnikov ($4,912) lasted a little longer but failed to navigate their way to heads-up.

Denmark's Thomas Jensen ($6,382) finished fourth, with Gavin Cochrane ($8,684), better known for his Pot-Limit Omaha prowess, finished in third and scooped the last four-figure prize of the event.

Brouk found himself heads-up against Malta's Anthony Burguiere, and he defeated his final opponent to claim the $18,806 top prize, leaving Burguiere to bank a $12,344 second-place payout.

"Drogbaa" Devours The Big Saturday

The latest installment of The Big Saturday saw 128 players enter for $215, leaving PartyPoker with a $4,269 overlay on the prize pool. Those players finishing in the top 23 places benefited from the overlay, with "Drogbaa" benefiting the most because were the last player standing and received the lion's share of the prize pool, namely $6,491.

Drogbaa left all 127 of their opponents in their wake, including runner-up "Leonel_pepsi," who reeled in a $4,322 payout for their efforts.

Other PartyPoker Results

Prizes include bounty payments

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.

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