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First Week of Mystery Bounty Festival on Pace With Expectations

First Week of Mystery Bounty Festival on Pace With Expectations

With 12 events in the books after the first week of action in 888poker’s Mystery Bounty Festival, the games are slightly above the pre-series expectations.

It has been all mystery, all the time for the past week on 888poker as the Mystery Bounty (MB) Festival got underway on Sunday, Feb 19th. After the first seven days of action, the total prizes so far are more than $365k, about $25k higher than the guarantees so far.

Not all games have hit their guarantees, but the majority ended up with more money than promised. Seven of the twelve games so far have beat their guarantee with five games missing the mark.

More than 10,000 entries have been recorded across the games running to date made up from 7,303 unique entries with 2,835 rebuys. The biggest game so far was actually the first one which saw more than 2,500 total entries including rebuys. That was the only game with more than 1,500 entries as Event #4 came in at second place with 1,488.

Saliba Goes Deep in Event #1

The opening event in this series was the biggest one so far in terms of field size, getting a whopping 2,581 total entries. The meant 29.05% extra in the prize pool over and above the $20k guarantee on the $11 event.

Team888's Vivian “Vivi.888.” Saliba.
Team888's Vivian “Vivi.888.” Saliba

Team888’s Vivian “Vivi.888.” Saliba had a great start to the series with a deep run in the opening event. She pocketed a bit more than $4,000 in bounties and prizes for fourth place.

Other players to cash in the big $120k event were:

  • 888poker’s Ian “Simpioni” Simpson (39th place for $186 plus $103.96 in bounties)
  • avidiu_maciu” (38th place for $186 plus $1,015.85 in bounties)
  • WalnutPix” (20th place for $306 plus $703.96 in bounties)
  • Nicolas “PKaiser” Fierro (15th place for $528 plus $727.72 in bounties)
  • Final table bubble “Chera2283” (10th place for $684 plus $1,639.61 in bounties)

That opening event was not only the biggest field so far, but also the best increase on guarantee with its $25,810 prize pool. One other game came pretty close, however, with 28.95% extra in prizes. The $55 MB Festival #12 saw 469 entries for $25,795 in total prizes.

Neither of those was the biggest prize pool so far – that honor goes to the $109 MB Festival #03 which had a guarantee of $120,000. The game had a respectable turnout of more than 1,000 entries, but ended up missing the guarantee by about 14%, leaving about $16k of overlay in the game.

That was by far the worst miss so far and in total, the missed guarantees in the first week amounted to barely $20k in total overlay. With almost $30k in fees collected through the series so far however, the games are still running a profit.

Big Games Yet to Come

The biggest game on the schedule, the $150,000 guaranteed Event #18, has been playing Day 1 flights throughout the festival so far, and Day 2 plays out on Feb 27. Day 1 flights are still active on the 27th before Day 2 begins.

The final weekend of the festival features a $50k guaranteed Mar 5 and several $20k guarantees during the final week.

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