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Artur Martirosian Wins His Third Triton Title and Is 99% Locked for the 2025 Triton POY Leaderboard

Artur Martirosian Wins His Third Triton Title and Is 99% Locked for the 2025 Triton POY Leaderboard

Artur Martirosian began focusing on PLO at the start of the 2024/2025 Triton season with one goal in mind — winning the Player of the Year race. The plan worked out.

Artur Martirosyan won the $25K PLO And Secured The POY Ivan Leow Player of the Year for Season 4

Martirosian entered heads-up play against Ben Tollerene holding a 60-bb to 21-bb chip lead. The final hand is available on Twitter:

$25K PLO 6-Handed Payouts (60 entries)

PlacePlayerCountryPrize
1Artur Martirosian$421,000
2Ben Tollerene$298,000
3Dirk Gerritse$201,000
4Santhosh Suvarna$152,000
5Alex Foxen$120,000
6Punnat Punsri$93,000
7Kosei Ichinose$73,000
8Stephen Chidwick$57,000
9Sean Rafael$46,000
10László Bujtás$39,000

This is the third Triton win of Martirosian’s career. His first two came at Triton Monte Carlo late in 2024: the $25K PLO Turbo Bounty Quattro ($525K) and the $30K NLHE Turbo Bounty Quattro ($891K).

Those victories set him on the path to the season title, and it appears he has succeeded. Only one event remains — the $30K PLO Turbo Bounty Quattro — and Martirosian’s point total is out of reach:

  1. Artur Martirosian — 5,154 points
  2. Alex Foxen — 4,467 points
  3. Punnat Punsri — 4,283 points

Points are awarded as follows: a win earns 100 points plus multipliers up to 2x for buy-in and up to 3.2x for field size. Players also earn 2 points for registering, 3 for a re-entry, and 10 for finishing in the money.

The leaderboard winner receives the trophy and $200K.

Isaac Haxton Wins $100K PLO Main Event — Nine Years to His First Triton Title

Isaac Haxton’s story shows how powerful and impartial variance can be, even for the best. Haxton has been playing Triton events since 2017. Over that span he posted 64 ITM finishes and $19.5M in cashes, reached 34 final tables, and finished runner-up 6 times before finally breaking through on Sunday.

Final Table Payouts — $100K PLO Main Event (total 116 entries)

PlacePlayerCountryPrize
1Isaac Haxton$2,789,000
2Nacho Barbero$1,897,000
3Jesse Lonis$1,261,000
4Robert Cowen$1,037,000
5Rahul Byrraju$838,000
6Danny Tang$655,000
7Klemens Roiter$489,000

Haxton defeated Nacho Barbero heads-up. For Barbero, Triton ended well too — earlier he won the $30K PLO/NLH for $646K.

Ding Biao Takes $50K PLO 6-Handed for $880K

Ding Biao won this same event in Jeju in March 2024, defeating Phil Ivey heads-up. This time his final opponent was Lautaro Guerra ($625K). This victory is crucial for Ding’s series results: before this tournament he had invested $835K in buy-ins (excluding re-entries) and collected $525K in cashes.

Final Table Payouts — $50K PLO 6-handed (total 64 entries)

PlacePlayerCountryPrize
1Ding Biao$880,000
2Lautaro Guerra$625,000
3Dan Dvoress$410,000
4Ben Tollerene$315,000
5Cesar Garcia$250,000
6Martin Dam$195,000
7Artur Martirosian$154,000

Final Day of Triton Is Live

Right now the $75K PLO final table is playing out live. Watch the stream on Twitch, Kick, Facebook, and Triton Poker Plus App.

Photo Credits: tritonpokerseries.com

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Written By: Alex Sakuta Content Editor