This year it will be bigger crowd and bigger lines due to Million $$ Bounty and Gladiator bundle to gather for the 1st week. $300 buy in will bring Many thousands first timers.

It will be a nightmare if not pre-registered online.

Closer to 5 am is infinitely better than 11 pm.

I've registered some big field events at 5 am in the past, and it's never taken me more than 5 minutes. They don't have a full staff, but there's never anyone in line. One time at the Rio, I was the only non-staff person in the entire place at 5 am other than one 5 handed cash game in the Pavilion.

On the other hand, I have waited 1-2 hours when trying to register around 11 or midnight.

Doing some basic Math, I'm not sure how the minimum bounty can be $10,000. If let's say there are 15,000 entries and $300 from each buy-in going toward the bounty pool, that's $4,500,000 for bounties. If approximately 6% of entries make day 2, that leaves 900 bounties. 900 x $10,000 = $9,000,000, which is twice the amount in the pool for bounties. Even worse, if the minimum is $10,000, that actually means the AVERAGE bounty would be more than $10,000, factoring in the $1,000,000 bounty and other larger bounties. The Math just gets worse. I wonder if the smallest bounties on day 2 are more like $1,000 or something. Then maybe some $5,000, $10,000, $25,000, $100,000, and the $1,000,000 bounty.

I did the math months ago. I always thought that it would be under 3% that make it to day 2. They are on record as saying that the min bounty is $10K. It will be a tall hill to climb to make it to day 2.

Apparently single table satellites are gone this year. Pretty disappointing, those were always lots of fun

This is copied from original December announcement on WSOP website:


“…The flagship opening event is being billed as “Mystery Millions,” a $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em tournament featuring mystery bounties from $10,000 to $1 million for each knockout and a $1 million guaranteed first prize through the traditional prize pool.

Now They are saying it was misprint and corrected.

Now it reads :

…. featuring mystery bounties from $1,000 to $1 million for each knockout and …

So we have our answer. Smallest bounty is $1000.

And I found list of Top 50 bounties and the name of winners from 2022.

Bounty Prize Collected By
$1,000,000 Matt Glantz
$500,000 Arin Youssefian
$250,000 Azim Popatia
$100,000 Ramon Kropmanns
$100,000 Daniel De Almeida
$100,000 David Timmons
$50,000 Jose Annaloro
$50,000 Patrick Tardif
$50,000 David Shmuel
$50,000 Tjan Tepeh
$50,000 Spencer Champlin
$50,000 Danny Bigelow
$25,000 Christopher Doan
$25,000 Michael Smith
$25,000 Wojciech Barzantny
$25,000 Raed Abualfilat
$25,000 Daniel De Almeida
$25,000 Rainer Kempe
$25,000 Michael Smith
$25,000 Steven McCartney
$25,000 Liam Murphy
$25,000 Joshua Rothberg
$25,000 Pei Li
$25,000 Pei Li
$25,000 John Fields
$25,000 Charles Combes
$25,000 Timothy Chung
$25,000 John Fields
$25,000 Yusheng Lin
$25,000 Gabriel Moura
$25,000 Dylan Smith
$25,000 Dave Stefanski
$25,000 Matthias Habernig
$25,000 Nathan Tuthill
$25,000 Jarod Minghini
$25,000 Florian Duta
$25,000 Michael Riddle
$25,000 Adam Waldon
$25,000 John Scrimenti
$25,000 Corey Smith
$25,000 Raymond Latinsky
$25,000 Raymond Latinsky
$25,000 Artan Dedusha
$25,000 Patrick Tardif
$25,000 Giovanni Petroni
$25,000 Brandon Sheils
$25,000 Eric Bonin
$25,000 John MacDonald
$25,000 Young Phan
$25,000 Mike Del Vecchio

"Now They are saying it was misprint and corrected.

Now it reads :

…. featuring mystery bounties from $1,000 to $1 million for each knockout and …

So we have our answer. Smallest bounty is $1000."

Holy crap! That makes a hell of a difference.

Very nice work tracking this down and clarifying things for us. Well done. So when will they correct their published statements regarding the minimum bounties?

I think they already did . Original statement corrected without saying anything 🥺

Here's an article about last year's Mystery Bounty that better shows and explains the bounty payouts:

https://www.poker.org/wsops-1m-myste...n-the-players/

Not even seeing 10K bounties!

Thx for very informative article!!

But I am more confused than before!!

What is 2 tier Bounty drawing?

What was “ special golden-chance “

How were Bounties over 5000/10000 were awarded ?

Here's another great article from a cool web site that I discovered just today.

It explains the disappearance of STS -- single table satellites.

https://www.poker.org/wsop-single-ta...era-1982-2022/

You have to make the money and then knock someone out to have a chance at a bounty? I bet it will be much harder to make the money than in something like the Colossal or Gladiators.

I've never made the top 6% of a bracelet event, so it's very unlikely I'll have a shot at a bounty. That means I'm just donating $300 to the field out of my entry.

Last year’s Million $$ Bounty , each day on average 5.86% of the field made it to day 2 . Total =14112/827.

I know it is tough task but would definitely take a shot at it .

We should get together and Run Last Longer for Million $$ Bounty. It is fun. And give people some inspiration to run deep.

I ran on 2+2 a successful Last Longer in 2016 and 2017 . We had many players participated.

$100 or $50 I will be willing to run if there is enough interest.

Clickable links of previous Last Longers are in next posting .

( it is really fun to go through the thread)



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https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/6...-quot-1656205/


https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/6...-quot-1577342/


https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/6...ossus-1507076/

I can't tell if you guys read too far into this or not far enough. Regardless, the original statement was that people would be on stage for drawing bounties of $10k or more.

The way this works:
1) Someone busts and gets sad
2) The person who busts them is very happy. A TD person shows up at the table with an iPad. The person who busts them gets their TR information taken and then presses a thing on the iPad, which does a random drawing. If the bounty is less than 10k (believe the amounts last year were 1000 2500 and 5000, but not 1000% confident on that), it shows on the screen and that's what they can collect at the cage. If the bounty is 10k or more, it shows a "Congrats! Report to the stage for the big drawing!" type of message.
3) The people who have won the big bounties go to the stage during breaks (and the breaks get super extended during this thing-day 2 takes forever as a result) and draw their bounty of 10k+. Matt Glantz wins a milly a day after tweeting that this tournament made no sense to him.

I think it’s different for each individual.

I will only play the tournament which makes sense to me or I will stay away .

If I play Million $ Bounty this year ( last year I couldn’t due to my travel date conflict) and knocked out on first day or made day 2 and collected minimum bounty, and the person who knocked me out win’s million $ Bounty. It will be 100% fine with me as I was in the tournament with my will and understanding.

Thanks for sharing this. I hope they re-introduce these in coming years without the lammers......simply deposit the funds to an account associated with your player card.

Is there a problem on bravo? Just wanted to register for the Milly Maker but couldn‘t find it🤔

This is the answer I got for my query 3 days ago
“….WSOP is working on some things on their side and all events won't be available immediately but the site should be live in a few hours.”

You can reach out to them on twitter @BravoPokerLive.

They are really good in responding.

https://twitter.com/Kevmath/status/1...186103296?s=20

Details on mega satellites this year. Can take cash or seat. W2G generated if >5k of buyin in cash taken.

I asked WSOP about this and here is their reply

“” We will continue adding more events in the coming weeks.“”

They are adding them slowly. The Monster Stack wasn't on there when it first went live, but it is there now.

These were great posts.


Made me think and research my previous results.



I am more motivated now . ( Not over confident). I am going to try my best to get better results this year. Let’s see what happens.

Here are some of my previous results . I am not a regular player. I only play some Borgata tournaments and 1 or 2 WSOP almost every year . ( Mostly 1k or lower)

2009 WSOP 1k buy-in ( entries 6012 ) cashed when 6% remaining.
2013. WPT Borgata $500 buy-in (entries 4482) cashed when 7% remaining.
2016 WSOP $565 Colossus II ( entries 21613) cashed when 3.5% remaining.
2017. WSOP $565 Colossus III ( entries 18054) cashed when 4% remaining.
2019. WSOP $500 Big 50 ( entries 28371 ) cashed when 10% remaining.
2021 WSOP $10K ME (entries 6650) cashed when 14% remaining (Min cash).

I alway do better in events with huge attendance.
It just challenge me to play better.

I always do better if I am part of Last Longer pool. Somehow it makes me play my best game .

I was going to play Mystery Million and Gladiator even before I read comments from “ WSOPeddie”and “pig4bill”.

I am going to thank them for very inspiring observations.

I will welcome any help, suggestions to improve my game from experienced forum members.

Let’s one of us run deep . ( or all of us ).

If you are planning to play please express your plans.

Good Luck All