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Mikalai Vaskaboinikau Wins $450,000 at Onyx High Roller Championship
Mikalai Vaskaboinikau won the 2026 $50,000 Onyx High Roller Championship, adding another trophy and a $450,000 first-place prize to a growing list of career accomplishments. Vaskaboinikau outlasted a field of 18 players, defeating Russian Aleksey Borovkov heads-up to close out his victory. Onyx founder Rob Yong finished in third place.
Vaskaboinikau earned 204 Card Player Player of the Year points. His sixth qualifying result of 2026 puts him in 147th place in the yearlong race presented by CoinPoker.
Vaskaboinikau’s victory pushed his total career earnings over $17 million. Since mid-2024, Vaskaboinikau won a Triton Super High Roller Series title for $4.7 million in Montenegro, and added two additional seven-figure Triton results. He also won a $50,000 European Poker Tour high roller in Cyprus in October 2024.
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