The first-ever WPT Big One For One Drop at Wynn Las Vegas has crowned its champion in Mikita Badziakouski from Belarus who topped an elite field of 17 entries in the $1 Million buy-in event, securing a career-best payday of $7,114,500. Prior to this victory, his largest live score was a $5,255,077 in a $2 million HKD buy-in 2018 Triton Super High Roller Jeju event. The latest win took his live earnings close to $53.3 million and he has moved into fifth place on poker’s all-time money list.
Badziakouski eventually defeated footballer turned poker pro Mario Mosboeck in heads-up. The latter started the dual with 10,325,000 to Badziakouski’s 6,675,000 but could not go all the way. The final hand of the tournament came during level 18 featuring 75K/150K and big blind ante 150K. In this decisive hand, Badziakouski limped with Ad 9s for 150,000 and Mosbock raised to 600,000 with Kc Jd.
Badziakouski re-raised to 4,150,000, enough to put Mosbock all-in. The former football pro called with his remaining 3,825,000 stack. The board brought 10d 10c 8c 8h 4h, sealing the title for Badziakouski. Mosbock earned an impressive $4,663,950 as the runner-up. This was his second multi-million score of the year and he now has nearly $9.7 million in recorded live tournament earnings.
India’s Santhosh Suvarna Finishes Sixth
The final day of the event began with six players. Dan Smith started as the chip leader with 61 big blinds. Also on the final table of this mega buy-in event was recent WSOP Europe €50,000 high roller champion Santhosh Suvarna from India, who fought valiantly but exited in sixth place. Unfortunately, he exited empty-handed as only four players were set to cash. After Suvarna, it was two-time bracelet winner Nick Petrangelo who busted in fifth place outside of the money. The next players to fall from the final table were the likes of Isaac Haxton (4th for $1,224,800), Dan Cates (3rd for $2,806,750).
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