I went to one way back and found it to be kinda meh. I assume they are bad compared to vegas strip clubs.

Good move, make sure to post some hands at the mtt strat forum here if you have any questions. If you bust early, just go play cash- I got beat up at cash but trust me: the games were juicy with tourny players in town.

In my opinion Borgata Winter Poker Open so far is huge Success.

Opening event # 1 ($800) had 3486 runners!
Almighty Stack event # 5 ( $500) had 3902 runners!

Any guess how many runners Half a ‘Milly’ Mystery Bounty event # 10 ($2200) will attract?

With little pricey buy-in of $2200 , I guess 1200-1500 runners will be a success ?

Any Guess ?

Yeah the final tables have had sick payouts but I think they make it a little too top heavy. I’ll be playing the mystery today. No idea how many runners they’ll get but I doubt I’ll fire more than 1 bullet. Especially since I’m tired from playing the Saturday series all day yesterday.

I’m curious, what’s the strategy if you make day 2? I guess you want to try and bust ppl to get those bounties? Probably gonna be some donkeys calling off super light.

Good Luck .

Please post update during the day.

Let us know what and who you see , how many players, your progress etc.

Sure

205 entrants so far.

Daniel Lazrus on my right. Had no idea who was but someone said he’s a champion.

IMPORTANT - they decided to change the blind level durations. All the levels are 40 min. The structure sheet said 1-12 are 30. But it’s now 40 min starting at level 1.

How are you doing ?

I will be playing Half a ‘Milly’ Mystery Bounty Event 10 on Tuesday

Busto

The line up felt tough today. But there are soft spots for sure.

Plays down to 15 levels or 15% of field. Whichever comes first. So you can expect to bag around 11 pm. This also includes a 45 min dinner break around 8pm.

Good luck to you

Thx

If you are still there , try tonight’s satellite “$250 Event 33: Last Chance Mystery Bounty Qualifier (1 in 10)“

You want to estimate the average value of a bounty, and convert that money number to a tournament chip equivalent. For example, let's say a traditional bounty tournament started you with 30K chips, $100 of your buyin went to the regular prize pool, and $100 was a bounty. That means a bounty of $100 is equal in value to 30K in chips. Then, when playing a pot, if you cover somebody, you just pretend there's an extra 30K in chips to be won. If I get short-stacked, and shove allin for 10K, you have to call 10K to effectively win 40K.

In a mystery bounty, you can calculate the value of the average bounty at the start of day 2, and do the same conversion. Let's assume the same numbers, $100 and $100. If you're down to 10% of the field on day 2, the average bounty is $1,000, equal in value to 300K chips. It's just that when you bust somebody, you might win only $100 (30K chip equivalency), or you might win $10,000 (3M chip equivalency). And, as people take bounties off the board, you can adjust your estimate of the average cash value of the remaining bounties, and also adjust the chip equivalent value.

Having said all that, mystery bounty tournaments are silly, at least to me. It's as if somebody decided that tournament poker doesn't have enough variance. Let's figure out a way to make the variance even higher. LOL. YMMV.

Cheers, Greg Raymer (FossilMan)

That's a really smart way to approach it. And I feel honored to have the great FossilMan reply to my post!

Thank you

Thanks. My book contains that same information (sans mystery bounty, as those didn't exist yet when it was written), and a lot more. You might enjoy it. #justsayin

Any one there at Borgata can tell how many runners they are getting for Main Event satellites ?

Anyone know where I can get updates on the main event winter poker open ? How many entries so far or even hand updates

https://instant.poker.org/borgata-winter-poker-open