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Originally Posted by persianpunisher
Still a little confused on the when. Do you miss hands to go to a table to draw an envelope? Or do you just go whenever?
When you bust someone out you get the ticket but the actual draw is electronically done. The result is displayed on a screen in the middle of the room. It shows your name then a key unlocking a treasure chest. You either got a 1000, 2500, 5000, or a gold image of some sort. If you got the gold image you were escorted to a stage at the center of the room where got to draw for one of the big prizes. There were 50 big prizes in total. 38 were for 25000. The other 12 were 50k and up. 6 were 50k, 3 were 100k, and then a 250k, 500k, and the 1 million.
Here is a description of what is was like on day 2 from an article.
The bounty-awarding line was so long during Day 2’s first levels that action was stopped briefly on two occasions to allow the animated draws to catch up to the event. The draws were also, notably, distracting, with action all but halting during the occasional on-stage bounty draws, and tourney directors repeatedly chastising players for leaving their seats and wandering around the player area amid all the other activity. Despite the hiccups, the event probably did exactly what the WSOP hoped, generating plenty of buzz during the early-days stretch of the Main Event when not a whole lot, in terms of poker results, is actually happening.