Artur Martirosian Rips off The Sunday Banana!

Martirosian’s Journey in The Sunday Banana

$1,050 The Sunday Banana $400K GTD attracted 435 entries, collecting $35k over the guarantee.

Artur, aka AlwaysWinNuts on ACR Poker, reached this final table by shooting only one bullet, carrying a stack of 45 BB when an average was 35 BB.

The final table was quite dynamic: after the first half hour, four players remained, close in stacks, with Artur clearly holding the advantage.

When one of them tried to initiate a deal, the others weren’t interested at all — especially Martirosian, who, after ten minutes of four-handed play, had become the massive chip leader.

In 3-max, two players were already ready to make a deal — but not Martirosian, who, even after matching Inauspicious‘ stack, showed no interest in the distribution of prize money according to ICM.

By the end of the first hour, the final table had been reduced to heads-up play, with Martirosian already holding a four-fold stack advantage over Inauspicious, who was protecting his stack and clawing for value.

The rivalry between them lasted only 25 minutes and ended in the most trivial way possible:

Artur’s Results After The Victory

Victory in The Sunday Banana earned Martirosian a handsome $96,115 in prize money.

His opponent, Inauspicious, took home $70,001.

The win came at just the right time: Martirosian approached it with a large loss, which the victory allowed him to reduce to only $4.4K.

The AlwaysWithNuts result once again highlighted a less-discussed aspect of high-stakes poker — the volatility and unmanageability of variance, even for the most skilled professionals.