Early Life and Background
Artur Martirosyan (born July 5, 1997) is from Voronezh, a city in western Russia. His father introduced him to poker around age 17, initially playing with family friends. He quickly moved to studying strategy on his own. When online earnings started coming in, the decision about university made itself: "I realized I didn't really need university and didn't really enjoy it. At the same time, I started to earn some money from poker, so I left and started to play professionally."
He began online with Spin & Go tournaments on PokerStars, starting at the $7 and $15 buy-in levels. In his first six months he earned approximately $10,000 to $15,000. The Spin & Go format rewards fast decision-making, aggression under short-stack pressure, and heads-up execution across high volume. Martirosyan built his technical foundation there before moving up to MTTs and eventually high rollers.
He later relocated to Playa del Carmen, Mexico, to maintain a high-volume online schedule. He is noted for extreme volume, playing more hands in a single year than most professionals manage in a decade.
Online Career: mararthur1 and the GGMillion$ Record
Online, Martirosyan plays under the username mararthur1 on PokerStars. He has accumulated more than $27 million in total online earnings across platforms.
His most dominant record is in the GGMillion$, GGPoker's flagship weekly MTT with a $10,300 buy-in and $1,000,000 guarantee. As of May 2026:
- 12 titles (all-time record)
- 49 final tables
- 92 cashes
- $10,500,000 in GGMillion$ earnings alone
No player in the history of the event is close to those numbers.
EPT Sochi 2021: His First Major Live Title
In 2021, Martirosyan won the European Poker Tour Main Event in Sochi, Russia. He overcame 852 entries and defeated Russian compatriot Vladislav Naumov heads-up, his ace-nine holding against Naumov's ace-six on the final hand. The win paid $325,370 and made him the sixth Russian in history to win an EPT Main Event.
WSOP Bracelets and Circuit Rings
Martirosyan has three WSOP bracelets and ten WSOP Circuit rings. His bracelet wins are concentrated in short-handed and heads-up formats.
Bracelet 1 (2023): WSOP Online International $10,000 Heads-Up NLH Championship, on GGPoker.
Bracelet 2 (2023): WSOP Paradise $800 Flip & Go NLH. $110,591. Las Vegas.
Bracelet 3 (2025): $25,000 Heads-Up NLH Championship. $500,000. Las Vegas. He defeated Aliaksei Boika in the final after navigating sixteen opponents in the bracket format, becoming the World Heads-Up Champion.
Best Live Cash: $250K Super High Roller Runner-Up
In 2023, Martirosyan reached the final of the WSOP $250,000 Super High Roller and finished runner-up for $3,271,666, his single largest live cash.
Four Triton Titles: Three in PLO
Martirosyan has four titles on the Triton Super High Roller Series, making him one of the most successful players the circuit has produced. Three of the four came in pot-limit Omaha events, a format where his aggression-under-pressure style is especially effective.
Title 1 (Triton Monte Carlo 2024): $25,000 PLO Turbo Bounty Quattro. $525,000.
Title 2 (Triton Monte Carlo 2024): $30,000 NLH Turbo Bounty Quattro. $891,000. Two Triton titles at the same stop.
Title 3 (2025): A third Triton title, confirming his place on the Triton Player of the Year leaderboard and establishing him as one of the circuit's defining players.
Title 4 (Triton Jeju 2026): $50,000 PLO Mystery Bounty. $1,044,000 including bounties, eliminating every opponent at the seven-handed final table.
He also won a $3,000 PLO event at Triton ONE, the lower buy-in sister circuit, making him the first player in history to hold titles on both Triton circuits.
Playing Style and Approach
Martirosyan is GTO-forward with heads-up and short-handed formats as his clearest edges, both tracing to his Spin & Go volume. He plays with high-frequency aggression and has demonstrated the ability to shift between push-fold situations and deep-stack postflop play within the same tournament.
He approaches variance with deliberate calm: "Every new downswing I handle better than the previous one. I've never really had huge problems with downswings because I think I'm mentally strong." On managing tilt at the table: "Sometimes I talk to myself and say bad things about my opponents in my head, but I'm also working on not doing that."
On his relationship to the live circuit: "WSOP is like a vacation." His day-to-day volume is online, not live. The vacation pays $3 million in runner-up finishes.
He plays tennis on days without poker scheduled.
Tournament Results Highlights
| Year | Event | Finish | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | EPT Sochi Main Event | 1st / 852 | $325,370 |
| 2023 | WSOP Online $10K Heads-Up NLH Championship (Bracelet #1) | 1st | N/A |
| 2023 | WSOP $250,000 Super High Roller | 2nd | $3,271,666 |
| 2023 | WSOP Paradise $800 Flip & Go (Bracelet #2) | 1st | $110,591 |
| 2024 | Triton Monte Carlo $25K PLO Turbo Bounty Quattro | 1st | $525,000 |
| 2024 | Triton Monte Carlo $30K NLH Turbo Bounty Quattro | 1st | $891,000 |
| Mar 2025 | Triton Jeju $100K Main Event | 3rd | $2,644,000 |
| Jun 2025 | WSOP $25,000 Heads-Up Championship (Bracelet #3) | 1st | $500,000 |
| May 2026 | Triton Jeju $50K PLO Mystery Bounty | 1st | $1,044,000 |
Career Summary
As of May 2026, Martirosyan holds three WSOP bracelets, ten WSOP Circuit rings, and four Triton titles. He is the all-time record holder in the GGMillion$ with 12 titles, 49 final tables, and $10.5 million in earnings from that single event. His total online earnings exceed $27 million. His live tournament earnings exceed $31.8 million, placing him first on Russia's all-time list. His career-best single live cash is $3,271,666 from the 2023 WSOP $250,000 Super High Roller runner-up. He is 28 years old, based in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
Earnings current as of May 2026. Sources: Hendon Mob, WSOP.com, Triton Poker, VIP-Grinders, GipsyTeam.
