Win Your Share of $150,000 for Just $160 in The Festival Online Mystery Bounty This Weekend
It’s hard not to love the excitement and action generated by a mystery bounty online poker tournament, and if you don’t, it’s probably because you have not played one yet! Thankfully, there is no better place in online poker to test the waters of the tournament format that is arguably the most popular right now than the Festival Online on 888poker.
You can hop into the excitement easily this weekend, and in just one bounty pull, you could win more than anyone in the tournament! There is no better poker format for players who love to spin, want to play big pots and dream of big scores.
The History of The Mystery Bounty
The Mystery Bounty was a relative unknown in the poker world until 2021 when the elite poker room at the Wynn brought it into reality. They introduced it in 2021 during their Wynn Fall Classic poker series, and since then, it has been adopted by the biggest and best poker operators. The World Series of Poker, European Poker Tour, and World Poker Tour have all incorporated this structure into their biggest live series worldwide. GGPoker gained a lot of attention for doing a $210 Mystery Bounty with a $1 million envelope.
The draw to the Mystery Bounty tournament has not waned even after two years, as the $1,000 Mystery Bounty WSOP bracelet saw over 18,000 runners and gained so many entrants that the WSOP put in not one but two $1 million bounty envelopes! In the online space, it is 888poker that has become the “online poker home” of Mystery Bounties, the same way the Wynn has become the “live poker home” for them. In fact, 888poker ran the first-ever Mystery Bounty Festival, which had every event as a Mystery Bounty.
Now, 888poker has partnered with The Festival Online series to bring you a whole weekend of huge Mystery Bounties, and none are bigger yet more affordable than the $160 Mystery Bounty event, a 2-day tournament with $150,000 guaranteed in the prize pool.
What Makes a Mystery Bounty So Thrilling
For a long time, the most exciting tournament in poker was the Progressive Knockout, or PKO, which was dominated in the online space by PokerStars. But the excitement for these dulled as you knew what you could win, and the hype of pulling an envelope and seeing your prize was never a thing, In Mystery Bounties, you can just knock one person out, who could even be a short stack like yourself, and win the biggest prize available—in some cases, more than the first-place prize!
Typically, the bounty is on offer on Day 1, but that is the case for smaller tournaments with reduced prizes. The biggest Mystery Bounties will be on offer for the players who make Day 2 and the money. The biggest allure of Mystery Bounty tournaments comes in the way of ever-shifting dynamics and changes, as players must constantly adjust their ranges to decide whether to chase a bounty or navigate their stack to traditional MTT strategy.
The element of a whopping payday of a top Mystery Bounty adds an extra level of complexity and is unknown to every all-in, which drives a huge amount of action, allows people to spin up short stacks and win a lot of prize money way before the final table.
How To Get Involved During This Weekend
There is no better place in online poker than 888poker and The Festival Online for Mystery Bounties this weekend. From Friday to Monday, you can be in the action, and no matter your bankroll, there is an event for you. If you want to be more frugal and do the ultimate spin-up, you can also find satellites in the lobby to get in the tournament for a fraction of the buy-in.
Here’s a spotlight on the upcoming Festival Online weekend:
- Friday, July 21: You can find multiple flights for the $150,000 Festival Online #31 Mystery Bounty, with the buy-in of just $160 for this huge 2-Day event.
- Saturday, July 22: Multiple Day 1s running for the event above and a Mega Satellite to the $160 Texas PKO, with 25 seats guaranteed.
- Sunday, July 23: The biggest day of the online poker week, there are multiple events, including the Mini High Roller, a Micro PLO event, and even more Mystery Bounty tournaments.
- Monday, July 24: The biggest climax of all the online poker action over the weekend will be on this day, as Day 2 with the final table of the $150,000 guaranteed Mystery Bounty #31 will be on this day.
To check out the full schedule for the Festival Online this weekend, look at the full schedule here.
