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Originally Posted by fatmanonguitar
Everyone is a bounty. But bounties do not come into effect until day 2 (when over 80% of the field will have hit the rail already). $300 from each buyin goes to the bounty pool.
I've never played a mystery bounty tournament before, so I'm not 100% sure how the bounties work, but this is my "guess".
So bounties begin on day 2. I believe every player that knocks out another player beginning on day 2 automatically receives a minimum bounty of $300, as per usual for a bounty tournament. THEN, they receive an entry to pick out of the BONUS bounty drum with bounties ranging from $10,000 - $1,000,000. Obviously not everyone that scores a bounty can win a minimum of $10,000 because there isn't enough in the bounty pool to offer that.
For ease of Math, let's say there are 20,000 entries, which results in a bounty pool of $6,000,000 (20,000 x 300). If they play down to 15% on day 1, that leaves 3,000 players left that are eligible to win bounties on day 2 and beyond. That leaves 2,999 mandatory bounty payouts (final man standing does not get a bounty obviously), which if the minimum was $10,000 would equal $29,990,000.
What I'm wondering is what is the count of each BONUS bounty?
e.g. how many $10,000 bounties, $15,000, $25,000, $100,000, etc
Perhaps not every player receives an automatic $300 bounty. They may draw from the bonus bounty drum, which contains mostly $300 bounties, and then some big ones ranging from $10K - $1 million. Vast majority will simply draw $300 bounties for each knockout.