Pennsylvania poker player Matt Glantz won the $1 million bounty last year. With a $1,000 buy-in and a top bounty of $1 million, the event drew a total field of over 14,000 entries. Last year, the mystery bounty format was included in the 2022 World Series of Poker. Top bounties in each daily tournament are 10X the buy-in, with the bounty phase kicking in at level 17 of the tournament.Įach buy-in is for $8,000 in chips and allows for unlimited rebuys. The prize pool commits half the money to the actual tournament finish, with the other going toward the bounties. WSOP MI is holding mystery bounty events throughout each day, with buy-ins as low as $5. Daily Mystery Bounty tournaments at WSOP Michigan So, even if you don’t win or place in the tournament itself, you can still collect some nice payouts for eliminating players along the way. If you eliminate a player, you collect that mystery bounty total for yourself.īounties will vary depending on the size of the event, but some can be as high as 1,000X the buy-in. The bounties are unknown until each player is eliminated. Once players reach a cutoff into the bounty phase, each player has a bounty placed on them. Players need to get through the opening phase of the event.

The bounties don’t come into play immediately. Each player is randomly assigned a mystery bounty. Similar to a standard bounty tournament, where part of the buy-in is set aside for the bounty pool, mystery bounty events add a little twist. WSOP MI adds Mystery Bounty poker tournaments

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