Mikita Badziakouski (Belarusian: Мікіта Бадзякоўскі, Russian: Никита Бодяковский, romanized: Nikita Bodyakovskiy; born 6 February 1992) is a Belarusian professional poker player known for his accomplishments in live poker tournaments.
Badziakouski began playing live tournaments in 2010, at the age of 18.[citation needed]
Badziakouski plays online poker under the alias fish2013onPokerStars and HelicopterBen82onFull Tilt Poker.[1] He chose the number 2013 in his screen name because that was the year he would turn 21 and be able to play for a WSOP title in America.
In May 2018, Badziakouski won the Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro festival held at the Maestral Resort & Casino, winning $2,499,090 in the process.[2] In August, he won the 2018 EPT Barcelona €100,000 Super High Roller, his fourth title of the year, winning him $1,930,851.[3][4]
In September 2019, Mikita Badziakouski lost £50,000 NLHE at the British Poker Open 2019. Mikita defeated Cristoph Vogelsang Heads-Up To Earn £486,000.[6]
As of February 2020, Badziakouski has earned over $2,200,000 playing high stakes online cash games on PokerStars.[7] He has earned over $50,000,000 from live poker tournaments.[8] In December of 2023, he won the $1 million Big One for One Drop tournament at the WPT World Championship at the Wynn in Las Vegas, winning over $7 million.[9] He is the all-time money leader in Belarus.[10]
