On Tuesday, GGMillion$ Week came to a close with Mikita Badziakouski, the fourth-winningest live tournament player in poker history, winning the $10,300 GGMillion$ Main Event. After outlasting a field of 1,325 entries, which generated a massive $12,852,500 prize pool, Badziakouski took home an incredible $1,755,815.
A star-studded final table
Even with the incredibly large field, the final table was still a who’s who of huge names in the poker world. Adrian Mateos, Nikita Kuznetsov, Chris Puetz, Pedro Neves, Tobias Eichenseher, Mario Navarro, Pedro Cavalieri, and Daniel Petersen. Overall, the nine players have over $130 million in live tournament earnings alone, not to mention a boatload of online poker earnings.
The event was streamed in its entirety on the GGPoker YouTube channel.
Winning in style
The Belarusian came in second in chips, only behind the eventual runner-up Nikita Kuznetsov, beginning the day with 77 big blinds. Fireworks came from the very first hand, with Pedro Cavalieri the unfortunate victim.
Cavalieri, who came into the day in eighth with 22 big blinds, found ace-king offsuit. Pedro Neves found ace-king of spades and three-bet from the cutoff. They eventually got all in, and an all spades flop eliminated the Brazilian, who left heartbroken in ninth for $222,859.
Though Badziakouski chipped down some in the first half-hour of play, he would get in all back and much more when Mario Navarro four-bet jammed his ace-jack suited into Badziakouski’s ace-king suited. Navarro received no help and exited in eighth place for $287,862.
Adrien Mateos was the next to go out, finishing in seventh place for $372,158 after three-bet jamming his final nine big blinds from the small blind with ace-queen, only for Daniel Petersen to wake up with ace-king in the big blind. Petersen held to pick up some much-needed chips.
After Chris Puetz ($481,478) and Tobias Eichenseher ($623,249) were dismissed, the final four started very deep, with everyone above 30 bigs, with Kuznetsov the massive chip leader with 77 big blinds. Only a short time later, Petersen was the shorty and got his final six big blinds in great with ace-jack suited against the queen-five suited of Pedro Neves. Petersen flopped an ace to take a 90% lead, but Neves found a runner-runner two pair to set up three-handed play. The popular streamer took home a career-high $807,101.
Badziakouski would win a few massive pots over the next 30 minutes to take the chip lead away from Kuznetsov, all while Neves was getting short. Neves got his final eight big blinds in with ace-five suited from the small blind, and Badziakouski called off with king-six offsuit. Badziakouski flopped a six, and the WSOP bracelet winner from Portugal exited in third for $1,045,529.
In terms of big blinds, Badziakouski started heads-up play with a 64-30 lead over Kuznetsov. The battle would last about 22 minutes, with Badziakouski hitting a few fortunate winners to take a massive lead over the Russian.
Eventually, he got in with ace-ten against Kuznetsov’s king-jack. Though Kuznetsov flopped a king, Badziakouski found a ten on the turn before hitting a miracle ace on the river to win his first-career GGMillion$ title.
Not his first rodeo
Badziakouski is no stranger to big paydays. After all, Badziakouski has $66,405,195 in career live tournament earnings, over $30 million of them coming at Triton, and has a total of 18 seven-figure scores.
In addition to his WSOP bracelet in the 2021 $50,000 High Roller ($1,462,043), Badziakouski has a total of 22 live tournament titles to his name. Five of those titles have come on the Triton Poker circuit, which ranks tied for second behind Jason Koon’s unbelievable 12 Triton titles.
Badziakouski’s biggest score came in the WPT World Championship $1M Big One for One Drop in 2023, topping the 17-entry field to win a cool $7.11M. He also won the 2018 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Main Event in Jeju for $5,25M, ten weeks after he won the Triton Super High Roller Main Event in Montenegro for $2.5M.
This GGMillion$ win isn’t even Badziakouski’s first seven-figure online score. Back in 2020, during the COVID-19 era, the Belarusian won the 199-entry $25,500 World Poker Tour (WPT) World Online Championships on partypoker for $1.06M.
When you compare Badziakouski’s GGMillion$ Main Event payday to his live winnings, it would only be the seventh-largest cash of his career. Including yesterday’s GGMillion$ win, here is a list of Badziakouski’s top-ten scores:
- 1. 2023 $1M Big One for One Drop – $7,114,500
- 2. 2018 Triton Jeju Super High Roller Series Main Event – $5,257,027
- 3. 2018 Triton Budva Super High Roller Main Event – $2,499,184
- 4. 2022 EPT Barcelona Super High Roller – $2,031,303
- 5. 2018 EPT Barcelona Super High Roller – $1,912,903
- 6. 2017 WSOP Europe One for One Drop – $1,772,822
- 7. 2025 GGMillions$ Main Event – $1,755,815
- 8. 2019 Triton Budva Super High Roller Series – $1,694,397
- 9. 2018 Super High Roller Bowl IV – $1,600,000
- 10. 2020 Super High Roller Bowl Russia – $1,600,000
GGMillions$ Main Event final table payouts
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mikita Badziakouski | $1,755,815 |
| 2 | Nikita Kuznetsov | $1,354,732 |
| 3 | Pedro Neves | $1,045,529 |
| 4 | Daniel Petersen | $807,101 |
| 5 | Tobias Eichenseher | $623,249 |
| 6 | Chris Puetz | $481,478 |
| 7 | Adrian Mateos | $372,158 |
| 8 | Mario Navarro | $287,862 |
| 9 | Pedro Cavalieri | $222,859 |
