This. I think this tourney sounds amazingly fun! Imagine busting a guy early, then busting out in level 2 or 3, taking the bounty chip in to cash out and it's worth $250K!

https://www.wsop.com/tournaments/

If this all NLH the tourneys for the summer?

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Have no idea what is the question.

I don’t think the payouts will be any different than the normal $1500 bounty. Usually $500 goes to bounty so you get 2500 runners, and take $400 from 2400 of them, you easily fund the mystery bounties. With more runners, you actually get more of the money to prize pool than the normal $1500 bounty tourneys.

Not sure how it would be proven, but if it could be, it would be a major scandal. I don't think the WSOP would risk that for just another event. But, of course, CET hasn't always made good decisions.

Is this is final list or are we expecting more events to be added? www.wsop.com/tournaments

There is no $1500 stud; $1500 stud/8; or $1500 razz.

There will likely be an announcement once all events have been finalised.

Don’t like the random bounty. Imagine being the 250k bounty and drawing dead from the start to win it.

You have the exact same chance of winning your own bounty as you do winning a random other specific person's bounty.

Heh, my chance of winning the bounty are far higher than winning the bracelet. That's prob true for 90+ percent of the field.

So you're saying the odds of winning the entire tournament (the only way to collect your own bounty) are the same as knocking 1 person out of the tournament?

If all players are of equal skill this would be true. Keep in mind the HUGE majority of players won’t ever be at the table with the 250k bounty.

The only way that you’re assured of a >0 shot of getting it is to have it be on you.

Maybe I'm thinking about it wrongly but it just seemed intuitive to me that the odds of winning the tournament and the odds of knocking out 1 random person in the entire field would be the same but I'm struggling for a way to prove it. Maybe below is correct:

I suppose if it was a 10 man sng and everyone is all in every hand (modelling ICM, no edges) then you have a 1/10 of knocking everyone out (win the big bounty), the person with the big bounty has a 1/10 of collecting it themselves and there is 8/10 that some other random person collects the bounty. If you are the bounty then still 1/10 of winning it in this example. If the tournament is 100 times bigger then it is just 1/100 that you are on the table with the bounty.

A specific random person, not just 1 person total.

Obviously this assumes everyone is of equal skill.

Looks like most of the schedule is up, no structures yet.

The bounty chips are not assigned a value prior to the event. Rather, a randomizer will be used at the time you cash out your bounty chip to determine its value. There is no way anyone will know what the bounty chip is worth prior to this, not even wsop staff.

Does the Monster stack represent the best value for the lower buy in tournaments? Or would you prefer to play the Big 50 and also the Colossus if your tournament budget was around 1.5k?

Pro's and Con's to both scenarios??

Haven't seen the structures yet and I don't remember last year, but if the levels are similar except for the 10 minutes longer Monster Stack, the Big Fitty is a much better deal for one-third the buy-in of the MS. The prize pool is much smaller though.

What exactly do you mean by best value? Biggest prize pool? Slowest structures?
Etc?

On 2019 prize pool for Big 50 was almost double than Monster Stack

It all depends on what your goals are. I've only been once and personally liked the events at other casino's and cash better.........I went the summer of 2018 which didn't have great structures at the WSOP though.

Regarding the events you mentioned I am going to say the Big 50 and Colossus would be better values as I believe you cash by making it to day 2. Not sure when the bubble breaks for the Monster Stack, but I am guessing it might be early day 3.

A tough question to answer without knowing what you want out of your WSOP experience.

I have been to the WSOP many times but only ever played cash games. This year I thought I might throw in a tournament or two as well mainly for fun and if I happen to make a deep run great.

The three tournaments I mentioned all have roughly the same starting stack and blind levels. Based on that I am asking people who have played these particular events which one did you enjoy playing the most? In your opinion which offered the best value if you indeed ran deep and at the same time which did you have the most fun playing?

Thanks

Noticed that they finally got around to including the $1500 events. Not sure if they are done though...a couple of things that aren't there that did exist in years past. Was surprised to see the Marathon is not shown, so wondering if it has gone by the wayside. That was the $2620 event...

I've played all three but the Collosal only the first year. I didn't play it again because the WSOP was extremely disorganized with running it, although I pre-registered and the worst of it didn't affect me, but mostly because the structure was bad. My understanding is that the structure was improved, but I didn't play it last year because of when it was scheduled.

I've played the MS a couple times, and the big stack allows you to make a few moves without crippling yourself, but if they don't pay off, you still need to catch some cards and I didn't. I will say the competition in general is quite a bit better in the early going, probably because of the bigger buy-in. The BF is the easiest to try for a bracelet because of the buy-in, but it's tough because of the length of it (5 days?). It's not easy to maintain discipline for that long. You have to run really deep (at least Day 4) to cash for a meaningful amount.

If you're in it for mostly the fun but still want a shot at a bracelet, I'd say do BF. If you're in it for the money, and play well enough to realistically expect to win money, I'd say MS. They're far enough apart to do both.

Where the hell are the stud games?