Mikita Badziakouski is a Belarussian poker player and WSOP bracelet winner with over $31 million in lifetime earnings (Jan. 2022). He was also a partypoker Ambassador from 2019-2022, and is known as the 2023 WPT Big One for One Drop $1 million buy-in winner ($7,114,500).
Poker Achievements
Badziakouski's first live tournament cashes came in Ukraine in the early 2010s, with his first six-figure score coming at EPT Monte Carlo in 2016. He finished sixth in the �50,000 High Roller.
More High Roller success would come in Malta, Macau and Prague before winning the $50,000 Shot Clock at the 2017 Aussie Millions. Later that year, he would secure his first seven-figure cash after finishing third in the WSOPE High Roller for One Drop.
After High Roller success at the APPT Macau Poker Cup in 2018, he followed that up with victory in the Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro Main Event for just under $2.5 million.
Then, two months later he won the Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju Main Event for $5.2 million.
EPT Barcelona would see Badziakouski win another $1.9 million in the �100,000 Super High Roller, before a Short Deck side event victory at the WSOP Europe - along with two fourth place finishes in High Roller bracelet events for over $1.2 million.
The following year, Badziakouski continued his High Roller success in Monte Carlo, Montenegro, and then in Las Vegas where he won three Aria Summer High Rollers.
When live poker resumed in 2021, Badziakouski competed in the Super High Roller Series Europe and the Poker Masters, before winning his first WSOP bracelet in Event #85: $50,000 High Roller for $1,462,043.
In December 2023, the Belarus native cracked the $50 million lifetime mark on The Hendon Mob when he defeated 17 players at Wynn Las Vegas in the WPT Big One for One Drop, a $1 million buy-in tournament. When he outlasted Mario Mosboeck heads-up to close it out, he collected $7,114,500 for his efforts.
Online Achievements
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In 2021, he won his first SCOOP title on PokerStars for $69,353 after winning SCOOP-61-H: $2,100 NLHE 8-Max, Turbo.