The Mystery Bounty Festival has been a roaring success so far at 888poker, but things are about to become even better with the start of the huge $300,000 guaranteed Main Event. The Mystery Bounty Festival is the first of its kind, with the Main Event being one of the biggest mystery bounty tournaments held in the online poker world.
March 1 at 5:00 p.m. GMT is your first chance to build a stack in the MB Festival – $300,000 Main Event. 888poker has set the buy-in at $160 ($150+$10), meaning 2,000 entrants are required to reach the guaranteed amount.
There are 19 Day 1s running from March 1 through March 6, each allowing up to 10 rebuys, if your bankroll allows, for the first three hours of each flight. The curtain comes down on each Day 1 once the blinds reach the end of Level 18, or only 14% of the field has chips in front of them. Day 2 takes place on March 6 at 8:00 p.m. GMT, and play continues until the final table is reached. Those finalists then return to the fray at 7:00 p.m. GMT on March 7 and complete the tournaments while the 888poker Twitch channel streams the action.
$300,000 Guaranteed Main Event Structure, Bounties, and Satellites
Mystery Bounty Festival Main Event players each receive a starting stack of 10,000 chips, and play to a 12-minute clock where the blinds start at 30/60/7a. There are turbo and hyper-turbo structures Day 1s; these come with six-minute and four-minute blinds, respectively.
The mystery bounties come into play from Day 2, during the 19th level, and there are some huge sums waiting to be won. One lucky 888poker customer is going to open a golden envelope containing an incredible $30,000 jackpot, can you imagine that? There will also be at least two $9,000 bounties, six worth $3,000, 20 worth $900, and another 45 weighing in at $300.
Satellites costing an affordable $16.50 award $160 tickets for the $300,000 Mystery Bounty Festival Main Event, with cheaper $1.10 and $2.20 buy-in satellites feeding into those. You can even win your way into the $1.10 satellites from only $0.10!
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MB Festival Results So Far
There have been some superb results from the festival so far, including a $10,811 score for “Leofoliveira” thanks to the Brazilian taking down the $120,000 guaranteed opening event. A much larger payout is on the cards in the $150,000 8-Max event that concludes on February 28, and which PokerNews will have a full recap of the final table action for you on March 1. First place in this event is worth more than $15,000, and that is without any bounty payments added to it!
February 28 also sees a $55 buy-in $20,000 turbo deep stack and a $5.50 buy-in $6,000 guaranteed turbo deep stack mystery bounty tournament take place. These shuffle up and deal at 6:30 p.m. GMT and 7:00 p.m. GMT respectively.
| Event | Buy-in | Entrants | Prize Pool | Champion | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MB Festival 01 | $11 | 2,581 | $25,810 | For1k | $2,282 |
| MB Festival 02 | $55 | 932 | $50,000 | Savchenko1. | $5,503 |
| MB Festival 03 | $109 | 1,032 | $120,000 | Leofoliveira | $10,811 |
| MB Festival 04 | $11 | 1,488 | $15,000 | samdion1996 | $1,559 |
| MB Festival 05 | $109 | 176 | $17,600 | IlovePickles | $2,333 |
| MB Festival 06 | $22 | 746 | $15,000 | Aurelian3p | $1,921 |
| MB Festival 07 | $320 | 97 | $29,100 | Escabofildo | $6,409 |
| MB Festival 08 | $22 | 820 | $16,400 | Dvingminator | $2,016 |
| MB Festival 09 | $109 | 234 | $23,400 | WestCliff26 | $6,795 |
| MB Festival 10 | $55 | 434 | $21,700 | MachadadaRS | $2,928 |
| MB Festival 11 | $5.50 | 1,147 | $6,000 | boyrom | $538 |
| MB Festival 12 | $55 | 469 | $23,450 | vsmithc413 | $2,774 |
| MB Festival 13 | $11 | 2,374 | $23,740 | ableJ | $2,555 |
| MB Festival 14 | $55 | 1,074 | $53,700 | JovemNerd94 | $6,126 |
| MB Festival 15 | $5.50 | 2,298 | $15,000 | genstorm | $1,542 |
| MB Festival 16 | $11 | 1,387 | $15,000 | Betbur18 | $1,960 |
| MB Festival 17 | $109 | 179 | $17,900 | fanatmalini | $4,012 |
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