Artur Martirosian Extends Poker Masters Online Championship Lead - Timothy Adams Now Third

The Poker Masters Online Championship is reaching a boiling point with only four events left to be played and Russian pro Artur Martirosian has a commanding lead over his nearest rivals Andras Nemeth and Timothy Adams. The entire Top 9 can still catch Martirosian with at least one win in the final four events, but with eight cashes already it’s quite possible the Russian adds another cash to his incredible string of results this weekend.

The Top 20 of the Poker Masters Online Championship standings are now as follows. Keep in mind that every final table is streamed on the PokerGO Facebook page as the race the coveted Purple Jacket and $50,000 cash prize is coming down the to wire! The full standings can be found here.

Poker Masters Online Championship Standings
	Name	Earnings	Points	Cashes
1	Artur Martirosian	$1,187,724	957	8
2	Timothy Adams	$948,882	813	10
3	Andras Nemeth	$974,987	807	8
4	Pauli Ayras	$968,048	748	6
5	Alex Foxen	$792,677	736	7
6	Pascal Lefrancois	$1,003,897	736	5
7	Alexandros Kolonias	$707,264	708	9
8	Luuk Gieles	$711,492	643	6
9	Eelis Parssinen	$638,893	610	5
10	Jorryt van Hoof	$605,558	607	9
11	Ali Imsirovic	$589,446	589	8
12	Sam Greenwood	$771,125	572	4
13	Justin Bonomo	$683,974	505	4
14	Wiktor Malinowski	$644,929	504	6
15	Steve O’Dwyer	$632,365	497	4
16	Joni Jouhkimainen	$557,212	489	7
17	Michael Addamo	$467,599	430	4
18	Dario Sammartino	$453,125	414	7
19	Elias Talvitie	$593,620	401	3
20	David Peters	$494,950	391	3

 

	Event #25 $25,000 No Limit Hold’em
Place	Name	Payout	Points
1	Samuel Vousden	$520,000	312
2	Wiktor Malinowski	$352,000	211
3	Artur Martirosian	$232,000	139
4	Pascal Lefrancois	$144,000	86
5	Timothy Adams	$112,000	53
6	Joni Jouhkimainen	$88,000	46
7	Guillaume Nolet	$76,000	46
8	Elio Fox	$76,000	46
	Total	$1,600,000	938
	Total entries	64

Pascal Lefrancois is putting on a huge late surge after winning an event yesterday he took fourth and fifth tonight shooting him up to over a million dollars in earnings across just five cashes and sixth on the overall standings.
The first event of the night was a $25,000 No Limit Hold’em event that got off to a slow start but swelled up towards the end of late registration creating a $1.6 million prize pool. Samuel Vousden from Finland took this one down for more than half a million dollars with Wiktor Malinowski finishing second. Poker Masters Championship leader Artur Martirosian grabbed valuable points by finishing in third place.

The night closed out with another $10k 6-Max that drew 91 entries with a lot of the same names doing well. Two new names ended up going heads-up, however, with Mark Davis beating Rob Lipkin for the $284,653 top prize.

	Event #26 $10,000 NLHE 6-max
Place	Name	Payout	Points
1	Mark Davis	$284,653	285
2	Rob Lipkin	$177,450	177
3	Wiktor Malinowski	$109,200	109
4	Pavel Plesuv	$79,625	80
5	Pascal Lefrancois	$56,875	57
6	Thomas Muehloecker	$38,675	39
7	Luuk Gieles	$29,575	30
8	Lukas Nowakowski	$29,575	30
9	Ali Imsirovic	$29,575	30
10	Nick Petrangelo	$24,932	25
11	Timothy Adams	$24,932	25
12	Pauli Ayras	$24,932	25
	Total	$909,999	910
	Total entries	91

There are four events left to be played, a $25k and a $10k on Saturday and a $50k and a $10k on Sunday night.