Artur Martirosyan Wins 3rd WSOP Bracelet in $25K Heads-Up Championship

Artur Martirosyan won the Event #7: $25,000 Heads-Up Championship for $500,000 at the 2025 World Series of Poker for his third WSOP gold bracelet. He also won his second Heads-Up Championship, following his victory in the $10,000 buy-in version at the 2023 WSOP Online, for $431,165.

Martirosyan also strengthens his lead at the top of Russia's All-Time Money List with $25,430,458, according to The Hendon Mob. He now sits more than $6.3 million ahead of fellow WSOP bracelet winner Igor Kurganov, who has a little over $19,000,000 in lifetime tournament earnings.

With a waitlist for the $25,000 Heads-Up Championship, the field remained capped at 64 entrants, creating a prize pool of $1,504,000. After the field was reduced on Day 1 to 16, Day 2 saw the bubble play out in the first match. The final match of the day would see Chance Kornuth, Harvey Castro, Thomas Eychenne, and Mike Shi all earn $86,000 in prize money as the final four players returned for the final day.

David Chen and Aliaksei Boika played on the outer table, while Martirosyan and Patrick Leonard battled on the PokerGO livestreamed feature table. Boika quickly dispatched of Chen when Boika's nut flush cut down his two pair. Martirosyan and Leonard played for considerably longer before Leonard was all-in with ace-jack suited but couldn't outdraw the ace-queen of Martirosyan.

Boika and Martirosyan returned to face off with each other, and it would be Boika taking the early advantage. Martirosyan captured the lead back and began extending it before the final hand. Boika called all-in from the button against Martirosyan's three-bet shove. Boika tabled king-queen suited to be against Martirosyan's ace-six. Boika flopped two pair, but Martirosyan went runner-runner flush to eliminate Boika and win his third WSOP bracelet.

On his way to winning his third WSOP bracelet, Martirosyan defeated Jeremy Ausmus, Faraz Jaka, Kevin Rabichow, Kornuth, Leonard, and finally, Boika. Not only does Martirosyan have a WSOP Online bracelet in this format, but he also has a previous final-day performance, finishing fourth in 2024 for $180,000.

2025 WSOP Event #7: $25,000 Heads-Up Championship Results

Event #7 of the 2025 World Series of Poker was the first PGT-qualifying event of the series, and with Artur Martirosyan's victory, he moves to 46th on the PGT leaderboard with his first cash of the season. Aliaksei Boika climbs to 82nd with his runner-up finish, while Patrick Leonard climbs to seventh with 820 PGT points this season from 11 cashes. David Chen sits in 44th place with 308 PGT points following his fourth-place finish. 

Thomas Eychenne, Chance Kornuth, and Mike Shi all earned their first cash of the season and sit tied in 138th with 52 PGT points, while Harvey Casto rises to 62nd on the PGT leaderboard with 246 PGT points.

PGT Leaderboard Top 10 

These are the leaderboard standings as of Sunday, June 1, 2025. The complete and current PGT leaderboard is at pgt.com/leaderboard.

The next eligible WSOP event to earn PGT points is the Event #11: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mystery Bounty that is underway on Sunday, June 1, while June 2 will see the inaugural Event #14: $25,000 No-Limit Hold'em / Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller. Later in the week will be the $10,000 Dealer's Choice Championship, $25,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Max High Roller, $10,000 Stud Championship, and the $25,000 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller.

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