Mikita Badziakouski
 

Mikita Badziakouski is a Belarusian professional poker player, World Series of Poker bracelet winner and one of the most successful high-stakes tournament competitors in history.

By August 2026, he had accumulated 68.780.522 $ in recorded live tournament cashes. That total placed him fourth on poker’s all-time money list and first among Belarusian players by an overwhelming margin.

Badziakouski’s career has been defined by results at the game’s most expensive tables. He won the 1 million $ WPT Big One for One Drop in 2023 for 7.114.500 $, captured five Triton Poker titles in No-Limit Hold’em and Short Deck, won the same 100.000€ EPT Barcelona Super High Roller twice and earned his first WSOP bracelet in a 50.000 $ event.

His rise began online, where he became known as “fish2013.” The deliberately modest screen name concealed a player who developed through high-volume internet poker before successfully moving into the live super-high-roller circuit.

The player’s surname is also written as Bodyakovsky, particularly in the Hendon Mob database. Badziakouski is the spelling most commonly used by the WSOP, Triton Poker and English-language poker media. Both versions refer to the same player and reflect different transliterations of his Belarusian name.

However his name is written, the résumé is unmistakable. Badziakouski has become the greatest tournament player Belarus has produced and one of the defining competitors of poker’s modern high-roller era.

Early Life in Belarus

Mikita Badziakouski was born on February 6, 1992, in Belarus.

He encountered poker as a teenager, during the period when online poker was rapidly expanding across Europe. Internet platforms gave young players access to a volume of hands that previous generations could never have experienced in live cardrooms.

Badziakouski began playing at approximately 16. Because he was under the required age, he has said that his earliest account was registered using his father’s details. The story belongs to a less regulated period of online poker, but it also illustrates how early the game became central to his life.

What began as curiosity quickly developed into serious competition.

Online poker rewarded the ability to absorb patterns, make repeated decisions and remain emotionally stable through large swings. Badziakouski discovered that he was well suited to those demands.

He did not become a famous live professional immediately. His development took place mostly behind a screen, where a username could matter more than a player’s real identity.

The Meaning of “fish2013”

Badziakouski became best known online as “fish2013” on PokerStars. He also used “HelicopterBen82” on Full Tilt Poker.

In poker language, a fish is an inexperienced or losing player. Choosing the word for a professional screen name was an obvious joke, but the number had a specific meaning.

Badziakouski has explained that 2013 was the year he would turn 21 and become legally eligible to play the WSOP in Las Vegas. The name therefore pointed toward a long-term ambition before he had established himself on the international live circuit.

The irony became greater as his results improved.

Opponents who saw “fish2013” at a high-stakes table were not facing a recreational player. They were playing against one of the strongest Belarusian online competitors of his generation.

Like many successful internet professionals, Badziakouski benefited from repetition. Multi-tabling allowed him to experience thousands of situations, review decisions and develop an intuitive understanding of ranges and bet sizes.

Those instincts later became especially valuable in short-handed high rollers, where players must contest more pots and cannot wait for premium cards.

Online Poker Breakthrough

By 2012, Badziakouski had become an established online tournament player.

One of his early major results was a runner-up finish in the PokerStars Sunday Million worth approximately 164.429 $. The tournament was one of online poker’s most recognisable weekly events and attracted large international fields.

Badziakouski later produced an even larger result in a 51.000 $ World Championship of Online Poker High Roller. A three-way deal gave him approximately 594.069 $.

These scores demonstrated two different strengths.

The Sunday Million required navigating an enormous field over many hours. The WCOOP High Roller featured a much smaller but far more technically demanding group of opponents. Badziakouski could succeed in both environments.

He also played online cash games, which helped sharpen his post-flop decision-making. Cash poker places less emphasis on tournament survival and more emphasis on extracting value from every repeated situation.

As his live schedule expanded, he reduced his online cash-game volume. Remaining competitive in the largest internet games requires constant study and regular play, while travelling between high rollers makes that difficult.

Online poker nevertheless remained the foundation of his career. It gave him the experience, bankroll and strategic confidence required to compete live for much larger amounts.

Early Live Results in Ukraine

Badziakouski’s first recorded live tournament cash came in 2010.

His earliest results were concentrated in Ukraine, where regional events provided a practical bridge between online poker and the international circuit. Between 2010 and 2013, he recorded several cashes without yet producing the kind of result that would make him globally recognised.

The transition from online to live poker required more than strategic knowledge.

Live tournaments move slowly, provide far fewer hands and demand sustained concentration across long days. Players must also adapt to physical tells, table conversation, unfamiliar casinos and constant travel.

Badziakouski’s online background gave him a technical advantage, but building a live career required patience.

For several years, his largest achievements remained on the internet. His public tournament record began accelerating only after he gained access to the European high-roller circuit.

That access changed the scale of everything.

Entering the European High-Roller Circuit

Badziakouski recorded his first major six-figure live score in 2016.

He finished sixth in the 50.000€ Super High Roller at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo and earned 210.530€.

The result placed him at a table with the type of opponents he would face repeatedly over the next decade. Super high rollers attract small fields, but almost every participant is an elite professional, a wealthy amateur or both.

The buy-ins also create unusual financial pressure.

A single tournament may cost more than an average person earns in a year. Re-entry formats can multiply the investment, and even excellent players can experience long losing stretches because the fields are so strong.

Badziakouski proved comfortable in that environment. His short-handed aggression, online experience and emotional control transferred effectively to elite live tournaments.

In 2017, he produced the result that established him as a true super-high-roller contender.

 

The 2017 One Drop Breakthrough

The 2017 WSOP Europe 111.111€ High Roller for One Drop attracted many of the strongest and wealthiest players in poker.

Badziakouski finished third for 1.521.312€, worth approximately 1.772.822 $ at the time.

It was the first seven-figure live cash of his career.

The event was significant for several reasons. Its six-figure buy-in demonstrated that Badziakouski had entered poker’s most exclusive tournament economy. Its association with One Drop also placed him on a global stage beyond the normal European circuit.

Most importantly, he proved that he could compete deep into a major event against a field with very few weak spots.

The result did not remain an isolated success.

Badziakouski followed it with one of the greatest high-roller seasons ever produced.

A Historic 2018 Season

Badziakouski recorded approximately 14.594.839 $ in live tournament cashes during 2018.

He won five titles, reached 11 final tables and collected four separate prizes of at least 1,6 million $. The season moved him from respected high-stakes professional to one of the biggest winners in the world.

His results were distributed across several countries and tournament series.

He won the Triton Montenegro Main Event, finished fourth in the 300.000 $ Super High Roller Bowl, captured the Triton Jeju Main Event for more than 5,2 million $ and won the 100.000€ EPT Barcelona Super High Roller.

Each event required a slightly different form of excellence.

Triton fields featured elite professionals and wealthy Asian businessmen. The Super High Roller Bowl was a concentrated test against many of the best No-Limit Hold’em players in the world. EPT Barcelona offered a larger European field and a demanding multi-day structure.

Badziakouski succeeded in all of them.

Only a small number of players have ever won more than 14 million $ in a calendar year. Badziakouski achieved it at age 26.

First Triton Main Event Victory

Badziakouski’s first Triton title came in Montenegro in May 2018.

He won the HK$1.000.000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event for approximately 2.499.184 $.

Triton Poker was still developing its international identity, but its tournaments had already become some of the largest and most difficult in the world. The series combined enormous buy-ins with lineups that brought together Asian high-stakes regulars and leading Western professionals.

Badziakouski fitted naturally into that environment.

He was willing to play short-handed, apply pressure and make large decisions without being visibly affected by the money involved. Those qualities are essential at Triton, where a routine pot can be worth more than the first prize in a conventional tournament.

The Montenegro victory was his first major live title and, briefly, the largest score of his career.

Only two months later, he produced a result more than twice as large.

The 5,26 Million $ Triton Jeju Win

In July 2018, Badziakouski won the HK$2.000.000 Triton Jeju No-Limit Hold’em Main Event.

The victory was worth 5.257.027 $.

It was the largest cash of his career at the time and one of the biggest tournament prizes awarded that year.

Winning in Jeju also gave Badziakouski consecutive Triton No-Limit Hold’em Main Event titles. He had won in Montenegro and then repeated the achievement at the very next stop.

The sequence demonstrated that his first title was not the product of one favourable run.

Triton events feature repeated confrontations against the same elite opponents. Success therefore requires constant adjustment. A strategy that works in one event may be recognised and countered in the next.

Badziakouski remained ahead of those adjustments.

His two 2018 Main Event wins created the foundation of a Triton résumé that would eventually include five trophies in two different poker formats.

First EPT Barcelona Super High Roller Title

Badziakouski continued his extraordinary 2018 season by winning the 100.000€ EPT Barcelona Super High Roller.

The tournament generated 54 entries and a prize pool of 5.239.080€.

Badziakouski defeated Ahadpur Khangah heads-up and collected 1.650.300€, worth approximately 1.930.851 $.

The victory added another prestigious European title to his two Triton Main Events.

It also demonstrated his ability to move between different tournament ecosystems. EPT high rollers generally include a wider mix of European professionals, online qualifiers and international businessmen than Triton’s most exclusive events.

Four years later, Badziakouski returned to Barcelona and won the same 100.000€ tournament again.

That repeat victory became one of the clearest measures of his longevity at the highest level.

Mikita Badziakouski’s Five Triton Titles

Badziakouski has won five Triton Poker titles across No-Limit Hold’em and Short Deck.

Year	Event	Prize
2018	Triton Montenegro HK$1.000.000 NLH Main Event	2.499.184 $
2018	Triton Jeju HK$2.000.000 NLH Main Event	5.257.027 $
2019	Triton Montenegro HK$750.000 Short Deck Ante-Only	approximately 1.694.397 $
2022	Triton Madrid 50.000€ NLH 7-Handed	1.340.000€
2024	Triton Jeju 100.000 $ Short Deck	1.153.000 $

The first two titles came in conventional No-Limit Hold’em. His third and fifth came in Short Deck, while the Madrid victory used a seven-handed No-Limit Hold’em structure.

This range matters.

Many high-stakes players specialise in one format. Badziakouski has won Triton trophies in games with meaningfully different probabilities, pre-flop structures and post-flop incentives.

His title count is smaller than Jason Koon’s record, but five victories still place him among the most successful players in Triton history.

The two Main Event titles in 2018 remain the centrepiece of that record.

Becoming a Short Deck Champion

Badziakouski won his third Triton title in Montenegro in 2019.

The HK$750.000 Short Deck Ante-Only event paid approximately 1,7 million $ to the champion.

Short Deck Hold’em removes every card from deuce through five, reducing the deck from 52 cards to 36. The smaller deck changes hand frequencies and creates more confrontations between powerful holdings.

Draws have different values, equities run closer together and players must become comfortable committing large amounts with hands that might look marginal in standard Hold’em.

The ante-only structure adds another strategic layer. Instead of conventional small and big blinds, every player contributes an ante and the button supplies an additional amount. This encourages wider ranges and frequent battles for position.

Badziakouski’s online background and aggressive instincts suited the format. He understood how to pressure capped ranges while also accepting the higher variance created by Short Deck equities.

His later results confirmed that the 2019 title was not temporary success in a new game.

The British Poker Open and Continued Success

Badziakouski added another important title in September 2019.

He won the 50.000£ No-Limit Hold’em event at the British Poker Open for 486.000£, defeating Christoph Vogelsang heads-up.

The tournament was part of a schedule designed for elite high-stakes professionals. Its fields were small, but the average level of competition was extremely high.

Badziakouski’s victory demonstrated that his 2018 season had not represented a short-lived peak.

He continued reaching major final tables and winning across different series. His results also made him increasingly familiar to viewers of livestreamed high rollers.

Unlike players who build their reputations through conversation or visible celebration, Badziakouski generally appeared controlled and focused. His decisions and results created the personality of his public career.

The arrival of the global pandemic in 2020 interrupted the live schedule, but it did not remove him from major poker competition.

Returning Online During the Pandemic

When live tournament poker stopped in 2020, the industry moved online.

For Badziakouski, the adjustment represented a return to familiar territory rather than an entirely new challenge.

He finished second in the 10.000 $ WSOP Online Short Deck Championship for 210.249 $. He also placed seventh in the 5.000 $ Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Championship for 84.299 $.

The results reinforced the versatility visible in his live career.

Badziakouski could compete in standard Hold’em, Short Deck, large-field online tournaments and small super-high-roller lineups. The format and setting changed, but his core strengths remained useful.

Online results are not included in the 68.780.522 $ figure used for his recorded live tournament earnings. This distinction is important when evaluating his complete career.

Public databases capture live cashes with reasonable consistency, while online results may be divided among screen names, platforms and confirmed identities.

Badziakouski’s actual tournament volume is therefore much larger than his live record alone suggests.

Winning His First WSOP Bracelet

Badziakouski won his first WSOP bracelet in November 2021.

He entered the 50.000 $ No-Limit Hold’em High Roller at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. The event attracted 113 entries and generated a prize pool of 5.409.875 $.

Badziakouski defeated Ren Lin heads-up and collected 1.462.043 $.

The bracelet filled the most obvious gap in his tournament résumé.

By that point, he had already won multiple Triton titles, an EPT Super High Roller and more than 20 million $ in live prizes. The absence of a bracelet did not reflect the quality of his career, but WSOP titles retain unique symbolic importance.

Winning a 50.000 $ high roller made the achievement especially appropriate. Badziakouski did not collect his bracelet in a small side event removed from his usual competition. He won it against the same category of elite opponents who had defined his career.

As of August 2026, it remained his only official WSOP bracelet.

Triton Madrid Victory

Badziakouski won his fourth Triton title in Madrid in 2022.

The 50.000€ seven-handed No-Limit Hold’em event paid him 1.340.000€, worth approximately 1.407.519 $ at the time.

The seven-handed structure rewarded many of his established strengths.

With fewer players at the table, opening ranges become wider and blind pressure increases. Competitors must defend more hands, play more post-flop pots and identify small strategic advantages against familiar opponents.

Badziakouski had developed those skills through online poker and years of super-high-roller competition.

The Madrid title arrived three years after his previous Triton victory. It demonstrated that he could remain successful as the high-stakes field became more technically advanced.

Solver study had transformed professional tournament strategy during that period. Younger specialists entered the circuit with sophisticated theoretical preparation, while established professionals had to keep improving.

Badziakouski remained among the winners.

Winning the Same EPT Super High Roller Twice

In August 2022, Badziakouski returned to the 100.000€ EPT Barcelona Super High Roller.

He had won the tournament four years earlier. This time, the event attracted 68 entries and generated a prize pool of 6.597.360€.

Badziakouski defeated Erik Seidel heads-up and earned 1.979.220€, worth approximately 2.031.303 $.

Winning any 100.000€ tournament is difficult. Winning the same elite event twice, four years apart, is exceptional.

The fields in 2018 and 2022 were not strategically identical. Poker theory had advanced, player pools had changed and the high-roller circuit had become more international.

Badziakouski adapted to those changes and repeated the result.

The two Barcelona trophies form one of the most distinctive achievements of his career. They show both peak performance and sustained relevance.

His next career-defining victory would come in an event with a buy-in ten times larger.

The 2023 Big One for One Drop

Badziakouski won the WPT Big One for One Drop at Wynn Las Vegas in December 2023.

The tournament required a 1 million $ buy-in and attracted 17 players. It was the fifth edition of one of poker’s most famous high-stakes events.

Badziakouski defeated Mario Mosboeck heads-up to win 7.114.500 $, the largest recorded live cash of his career.

Dan Smith and Isaac Haxton completed the four paid positions.

The Big One combines elite competition with extraordinary financial pressure. Even for a successful super-high-roller professional, a 1 million $ entry represents a serious investment. Players commonly sell portions of their action or exchange percentages with other professionals to manage the risk, although Badziakouski’s exact financial arrangement was not publicly established.

The event also raised money for the One Drop Foundation’s safe-water projects.

Badziakouski’s victory connected him with previous champions Antonio Esfandiari, Daniel Colman, Elton Tsang and Justin Bonomo.

It also moved him decisively upward on poker’s all-time money list.

Mikita Badziakouski’s Biggest Tournament Results

Badziakouski’s career includes major victories on the WPT, WSOP, EPT and Triton Poker tours.

Year	Tournament	Result	Prize
2023	WPT Big One for One Drop	1st	7.114.500 $
2018	Triton Jeju HK$2.000.000 NLH Main Event	1st	5.257.027 $
2018	Triton Montenegro HK$1.000.000 NLH Main Event	1st	2.499.184 $
2022	EPT Barcelona 100.000€ Super High Roller	1st	approximately 2.031.303 $
2018	EPT Barcelona 100.000€ Super High Roller	1st	approximately 1.930.851 $
2017	WSOPE 111.111€ High Roller for One Drop	3rd	approximately 1.772.822 $
2019	Triton Montenegro Short Deck Ante-Only	1st	approximately 1.694.397 $
2018	Super High Roller Bowl IV	4th	1.600.000 $
2021	WSOP 50.000 $ NLH High Roller	1st	1.462.043 $
2022	Triton Madrid 50.000€ NLH 7-Handed	1st	approximately 1.407.519 $
2024	Triton Montenegro 200.000 $ NLH	5th	1.405.000 $
2025	Triton Jeju 125.000 $ NLH 7-Handed	3rd	1.348.000 $

The table shows why simple title counts cannot fully describe his career.

Badziakouski has earned seven-figure prizes through victories, runner-up finishes and deeper final-table runs. A fifth-place finish in a 200.000 $ Triton event can pay more than winning a major conventional tournament.

These amounts are gross cashes rather than profit. They do not subtract buy-ins, re-entries, sold action, travel, taxes or other professional expenses.

A Remarkable Week in Monte Carlo

Badziakouski produced another major sequence at EPT Monte Carlo in 2023.

He finished second in the 100.000€ Super High Roller for 1.009.853€. Only days later, he won the 25.000€ High Roller for 938.042€.

The two results demonstrated the resilience required by tournament poker.

Finishing second in a major event can be financially valuable but emotionally difficult. A player must quickly process the final defeat, recover and begin another tournament against many of the same opponents.

Badziakouski responded by winning.

The sequence also reinforced his exceptional record in European high rollers. Barcelona produced two of his most important titles, while Monte Carlo became another location where he repeatedly reached final tables.

Later in 2023, his Big One victory transformed a strong season into a historic one.

Fifth Triton Title in 2024

Badziakouski won his fifth Triton trophy in Jeju in March 2024.

He defeated Paul Phua heads-up in the 100.000 $ Short Deck event and earned 1.153.000 $.

The result arrived almost five years after his first Triton Short Deck title.

That gap is significant because Short Deck evolved rapidly. Early specialists initially benefited from experience in Asian cash games, but strategy became more sophisticated as study resources improved and more professionals entered the format.

Badziakouski remained successful through that evolution.

His 2024 season also included several other seven-figure or near-seven-figure results. He finished fifth in a 200.000 $ Triton Montenegro event for 1.405.000 $, sixth in the 200.000 $ Triton Monte Carlo Invitational for 1.188.000 $ and eighth in the 250.000 $ WSOP Super High Roller for 629.407 $.

The volume showed that his fifth Triton title was part of a broader period of consistency.

The 2025 Season

Badziakouski recorded 7.659.611 $ in live tournament cashes during 2025.

He did not rely on one enormous victory to create that total. Instead, he produced repeated final tables across the largest international series.

At Triton Jeju, he finished second in a 40.000 $ Mystery Bounty event for 630.000 $ and third in a 125.000 $ seven-handed tournament for 1.348.000 $.

In Monte Carlo, he finished sixth in the 100.000€ EPT Super High Roller for 438.300€ and then won the 50.000€ Second Chance event for 788.500€.

Later Triton results included third in a Jeju Short Deck tournament for 329.000 $, fourth in a 60.000 $ No-Limit Hold’em event for 774.000 $, second in a 50.000 $ bounty event for 536.000 $ and seventh in a 125.000 $ seven-handed event for 414.000 $.

He ended the year with a tenth-place finish in the 250.000 $ WSOP Paradise Invitational for 648.000 $.

The season illustrated the value of consistency at the highest stakes. Several final tables can produce a yearly total comparable with winning one of poker’s largest events.

Results in 2026

Badziakouski remained active among the world’s leading high rollers in 2026.

His early live results included second place in a 50.000€ EPT Monte Carlo event for approximately 554.697 $, sixth in a 150.000 $ Triton Jeju tournament for 729.000 $ and fifth in a 50.000 $ Short Deck event for 240.000 $.

He also reached final tables in Montenegro and finished second in a 10.400 $ Onyx tournament for approximately 585.000 $.

Online, Badziakouski won the 10.000 $ GGMillion$ Main Event in January for 1.764.638 $.

That result was not included in his Hendon Mob live total, but it created a satisfying connection with the beginning of his career. More than a decade after “fish2013” emerged online, Badziakouski could still win one of the internet’s largest major tournaments.

By August 2026, his recorded live earnings stood at 68.780.522 $.

He had achieved that figure at age 34, leaving significant time to add to it.

Fourth on Poker’s All-Time Money List

Badziakouski ranked fourth on the global live tournament money list in August 2026.

Rank	Player	Recorded live earnings
1st	Bryn Kenney	90.761.210 $
2nd	Stephen Chidwick	79.029.052 $
3rd	Jason Koon	77.032.156 $
4th	Mikita Badziakouski	68.780.522 $

The ranking places him ahead of many players with more WSOP bracelets or greater mainstream recognition.

It also reflects the tournament economy in which he has competed. Badziakouski entered the high-roller circuit during a period when 100.000 $, 200.000 $ and even 1 million $ buy-ins became recurring parts of the international calendar.

Large prizes can move a player rapidly upward, but the events also require enormous investment. Remaining near the top over many seasons is therefore more meaningful than one isolated score.

Badziakouski’s total includes results across the WSOP, WPT, EPT, Triton Poker and other high-roller series.

No Belarusian player is close to his career earnings.

Playing Style

Badziakouski is best described as an aggressive and adaptable tournament player.

His online development taught him to think in ranges rather than wait for individual premium hands. He is comfortable opening widely, defending blinds and applying pressure when an opponent’s possible holdings appear limited.

These qualities become more valuable as a table becomes shorter.

Six-handed and seven-handed tournaments require players to contest more pots. Short Deck increases that pressure further because equities run closer together and the ante structure creates additional incentives to enter hands.

Badziakouski is also comfortable making decisions quickly.

High-stakes live poker can encourage long periods of hesitation because the amounts are enormous. Badziakouski’s internet background allows him to recognise familiar patterns and act without turning every routine situation into a performance.

His aggression is not simply a willingness to gamble. It is supported by technical experience, positional awareness and an understanding of how tournament stack sizes change the value of each decision.

Why He Excels in Short-Handed Poker

Many of Badziakouski’s most important victories came in short-handed formats.

He won a seven-handed Triton event in Madrid, two Short Deck titles and several super high rollers that became short-handed quickly because of their small fields.

Short-handed poker reduces the value of patience as a complete strategy.

Blinds and antes arrive more frequently. Starting-hand requirements must become wider, and players encounter difficult post-flop situations with medium-strength holdings. Anyone who waits only for obvious opportunities will lose chips too quickly.

Badziakouski’s online education prepared him for this environment. Years of multi-tabling created familiarity with marginal decisions, while cash-game experience improved his willingness to play across all betting streets.

He is also difficult to intimidate financially.

That does not mean the money has no importance. It means he has developed processes that allow him to keep making strategic decisions even when the pot is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

At the highest level, that emotional stability is a competitive skill.

From Online Instincts to Live Adjustments

Badziakouski’s career demonstrates how online and live poker can complement one another.

Internet poker provided volume. It allowed him to encounter the same strategic patterns repeatedly and develop a strong technical baseline.

Live poker introduced different information.

Players can observe posture, timing, chip handling and conversation. They must also understand how an opponent’s decision-making changes when a pot is physically visible and the tournament may last several days.

Badziakouski did not remain an online specialist who happened to enter live events. He learned how to use the slower environment without losing the aggression that made his internet game successful.

His Triton results are particularly strong evidence of that adaptation. The fields contain both theoretically advanced professionals and wealthy recreational players with unconventional styles.

A rigid strategy may work against one group and fail against the other. Badziakouski has repeatedly adjusted within the same tournament.

The Financial Reality of Super High Rollers

Badziakouski’s 68,78 million $ in recorded cashes should not be confused with career profit.

Tournament databases record prizes when a player finishes in the money. They do not normally subtract the cost of unsuccessful entries or re-entries.

That distinction is especially important for a super-high-roller specialist.

A player who cashes for 1 million $ after entering several 100.000 $ tournaments may have a very different profit from someone who wins the same amount in a 1.000 $ event. Travel, accommodation, taxes and professional support also reduce the amount retained.

High-stakes players frequently sell percentages of their tournament action, exchange pieces with other professionals or play under backing arrangements. These methods reduce individual risk but also reduce the share of a prize that belongs to the player.

The exact details of Badziakouski’s arrangements are private.

His live earnings total measures tournament performance and longevity. It does not reveal the balance of his bank account.

Mikita Badziakouski’s Net Worth

Mikita Badziakouski’s exact net worth is not publicly known.

Online estimates should be treated cautiously because they usually begin with his gross tournament cashes and make unsupported assumptions about profit.

The public record confirms 68.780.522 $ in live tournament prizes by August 2026. It also confirms major online scores and a long career in events with buy-ins ranging from tens of thousands to 1 million $.

What the record does not show is equally important.

There is no complete public account of his losing entries, swaps, sold action, backing agreements, taxes, investments or private cash-game results. Even the percentage of the 7.114.500 $ Big One prize that he personally owned was not publicly established.

It is reasonable to conclude that Badziakouski has built substantial wealth from poker. Assigning a precise figure would be speculation.

His tournament earnings and his net worth are not the same number.

Badziakouski or Bodyakovsky?

Mikita Badziakouski’s name appears in several forms across poker databases and media.

The Hendon Mob lists him as Mikita Bodyakovsky. The WSOP, Triton Poker and many English-language reports use Mikita Badziakouski. Variations such as Mikita Badziakouski and Nikita Bodyakovskiy may also appear in older coverage.

The differences come from transliteration.

Belarusian and Russian names are written in Cyrillic, and there is no single universal method for converting every sound into the Latin alphabet. Different organisations adopted different spellings before one version became dominant in international poker coverage.

The player himself is most widely branded as Mikita Badziakouski.

Using the alternative form Bodyakovsky can still be useful when searching historical tournament records. It does not identify a different person.

His nationality is Belarusian, and he has consistently represented Belarus in public poker databases.

The Greatest Belarusian Poker Player

Badziakouski is the most successful live tournament player in Belarusian history.

His 68,78 million $ total is not simply a national record. It places him among the four largest winners from any country.

Belarus does not have the same poker infrastructure or international reputation as the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany or Canada. Badziakouski therefore built his career through online competition and constant travel.

His success gave Belarus a visible representative at the most prestigious tables in the game.

He has won in Montenegro, South Korea, Spain, the United States and other international destinations. He has also defeated champions from several generations, including Erik Seidel in heads-up play at EPT Barcelona.

Badziakouski’s influence is different from that of a mainstream television celebrity. He is not primarily known for catchphrases or public controversy.

His reputation comes from appearing repeatedly in the final stages of tournaments that very few players can afford or qualify to enter.

WSOP, EPT, WPT and Triton Success

One of the strongest arguments for Badziakouski’s historical standing is the breadth of his titles.

He has won a WSOP bracelet, the WPT Big One for One Drop, two EPT Barcelona Super High Rollers and five Triton tournaments.

These achievements represent four different parts of modern tournament poker.

The WSOP bracelet connects him with the game’s most important annual series. The EPT victories demonstrate sustained success in elite European fields. Triton established him as a specialist in the world’s most expensive travelling high rollers. The Big One for One Drop gave him one of poker’s rarest million-dollar-buy-in trophies.

Few players have produced defining wins across all four environments.

Badziakouski has done so without relying on a WSOP Main Event run or one unusually large recreational field. His career was built primarily against concentrated groups of elite opponents.

That makes his 68,78 million $ total particularly impressive.

Future Poker Hall of Fame Case

Badziakouski is not yet eligible for the Poker Hall of Fame.

The traditional criteria require a player to be at least 40 years old at the time of nomination. Born in 1992, Badziakouski will not reach that threshold until 2032.

His current résumé already contains several achievements associated with Hall of Fame careers.

He ranks fourth in all-time live earnings, owns titles across every leading high-roller series and has remained successful against top competition for more than a decade. His five Triton trophies and two victories in the same EPT 100.000€ event strengthen the case beyond raw money totals.

The main question is how his career develops before he becomes eligible.

Additional bracelets would improve the traditional side of his record, while continued Triton and super-high-roller success could move him even higher on the money list.

Age is currently the barrier, not achievement.

Mikita Badziakouski’s Place in Poker History

Badziakouski belongs to the first generation whose careers were shaped equally by online poker and the global super-high-roller circuit.

He learned the game through internet volume, then entered live poker at the moment when the largest tournaments were expanding beyond Las Vegas.

Triton created major events in Asia and Europe. The EPT developed a regular high-roller schedule. The WSOP added tournaments with buy-ins of 50.000 $, 100.000 $ and 250.000 $. One Drop revived the million-dollar buy-in.

Badziakouski succeeded in all of those settings.

His career also illustrates why modern money-list comparisons require context. Earlier legends had fewer opportunities to win seven-figure prizes, while today’s high rollers must risk extraordinary amounts against exceptionally strong fields.

Badziakouski did not create the super-high-roller era, but he became one of its most consistent champions.

His place in history rests on repeated performance, technical range and a willingness to compete wherever the stakes became largest.

The Poker Legacy of Mikita Badziakouski

Mikita Badziakouski transformed an online screen name into one of the largest tournament résumés poker has ever seen.

“fish2013” began as a joke and a reference to the year he would finally be old enough to play in Las Vegas. By the time that ambition became reality, Badziakouski was already developing the skills required to compete far beyond ordinary WSOP events.

His historic 2018 season established him as a global high-roller star. Consecutive Triton Main Event victories, a 5,26 million $ score in Jeju and an EPT Barcelona title made him one of the year’s dominant players.

He then proved that the success could last.

Badziakouski won in Short Deck, earned a WSOP bracelet, repeated his EPT Barcelona victory, collected a fifth Triton title and captured the 1 million $ Big One for One Drop for a career-best 7.114.500 $.

By August 2026, his 68.780.522 $ in live cashes placed him fourth in the world and first in Belarusian history.

The number is not a measure of net worth, but it is a powerful measure of sustained tournament performance.

Badziakouski remains young enough to reshape the rankings further. Whether he adds more bracelets, Triton trophies or another record prize, his position among modern poker’s elite is already secure.

He is not simply the greatest player Belarus has produced. He is one of the defining high-stakes tournament professionals of his generation.

Career statistics updated in August 2026. Recorded live earnings represent gross tournament cashes and exclude online results, private cash games, buy-ins, expenses, taxes and staking arrangements.