$2,000,000 GTD Mystery Bounty Festival at 888Poker

Author

Vargoso

Published

2/16/2023

Updated

2/16/2023

Having thoroughly tested the Mystery Bounty format for almost half a year, 888Poker announced a new specialized festival kicking off on February 19, 2023, with a brand-new schedule and a total guarantee of over $2,000,000.

Features of the series

888Poker launched Mystery Bounty tournaments on September 25, 2022, and after that, they remained in the regular grid and also were the backbone of two series. In late February 2023, the room announced ¡a new festival in which all events will be played under this format.

888Poker will host the Mystery Bounty Festival from February 19 to March 7, 2023, guaranteeing over $2,000,000 across more than 200 MTT.

Also, as in this year's XL Winter Series, 888 will divide all the events of the series into two large groups: numbered and daily.

The first group is as follows:

Buy-ins – from $5.5 to $320, but only 11 tournaments up to $11
There will be three major events with six-figure guarantees. Only one of them – $120,000 Mystery Bounty Opening MB Festival #03 – for $109 features no flights
25 of the numbered tournaments guarantee $15K and $20K.
The main event features a $109 buy-in with a guarantee of $300,000 and a maximum bounty of $30K.
Fridays will be off

19 February	20:00	$11	MB Festival #01 – $20,000 Mystery Bounty Opening 11	$20,000
	21:30	$55	MB Festival #02 – $50,000 Mystery Bounty Opening 55	$50,000
	22:00	$109	MB Festival #03 – $120,000 Mystery Bounty Opening 109	$120,000
20 February	20:00	$11	MB Festival #04 - $15,000 Mystery Bounty 8-Max 11	$15,000
	22:30	$109	MB Festival #05 – $15,000 Mystery Bounty 8-Max 109	$15,000
21 February	22:00	$22	MB Festival #06 – $15,000 Mystery Bounty Turbo Deep Mini 22	$15,000
	22:00	$320	MB Festival #07 – $25,000 Mystery Bounty Turbo Deep 320	$25,000
22 February	22:00	$22	MB Festival #08 – $15,000 Mystery Bounty 6-Max Mini 22	$15,000
	22:30	$109	MB Festival #09 – $20,000 Mystery Bounty 6-Max 109	$20,000
23 February	21:30	$55	MB Festival #10 – $20,000 Mystery Bounty 55	$20,000
	22:30	$5.5	MB Festival #11 – $6,000 Mystery Bounty 5.5	$6,000
25 February	21:30	$55	MB Festival #12 – $20,000 Mystery Bounty 55	$20,000
26 February	20:00	$11	MB Festival #13 – $20,000 Mystery Bounty 11 8-Max	$20,000
	21:30	$55	MB Festival #14 – $50,000 Mystery Bounty 55 8-Max	$50,000
	22:00	$5.5	MB Festival #15 – $15,000 Mystery Bounty 5.5 8-Max	$15,000
27 February	20:00	$11	MB Festival #16 – $15,000 Mystery Bounty 11 6-Max	$15,000
	22:30	$109	MB Festival #17 – $15,000 Mystery Bounty 109 6-Max	$15,000
28 February	23:00	$109	MB Festival #18 – $150,000 Mystery Bounty 8-Max (Day 2)	$150,000
	21:30	$55	MB Festival #19 – $20,000 Mystery Bounty 55 Turbo Deep 6-Max	$20,000
	22:00	$5.5	MB Festival #20 – $6,000 Mystery Bounty 5.5 Turbo Deep 6-Max	$6,000
1 March	20:00	$11	MB Festival #21 – $15,000 Mystery Bounty 11 8-Max	$15,000
	22:30	$109	MB Festival #22 – $15,000 Mystery Bounty 109 8-Max	$15,000
2 March	21:30	$55	MB Festival #23 – $20,000 Mystery Bounty 55	$20,000
	22:30	$5.5	MB Festival #24 – $6,000 Mystery Bounty 5.5	$6,000
4 March	22:30	$55	MB Festival #25 – $20,000 Mystery Bounty 55 8-Max	$20,000
5 March	20:00	$11	MB Festival #26 – $20,000 Mystery Bounty 11 6-Max	$20,000
	21:30	$55	MB Festival #27 – $50,000 Mystery Bounty 55 6-Max	$50,000
	22:00	$5.5	MB Festival #28 – $15,000 Mystery Bounty 5.5 6-Max	$15,000
6 March	20:00	$11	MB Festival #29 – $15,000 Mystery Bounty 11	$15,000
	23:00	$109	MB Festival #30 – $15,000 Mystery Bounty 109	$15,000
7 March	23:00	$160	MB Festival – $300,000 Main Event (Day 2)	$300,000

Daily tournaments have a wider buy-in range: from $1.1 to $525. The prize pool is a maximum of $35,000. The grid of such MTTs is basically the same every day.

The full schedule of the $2M GTD Mystery Bounty Festival Schedule is available here.

Multi-flighted tournaments

Tournament	Day 1	Day 2
MB Festival #18 – $150,000 Mystery Bounty 8-Max	24-27 February	28 February
MB Festival – $300,000 Main Event	1-6 March	7 March

In these events, unlike all the others in the Mystery Bounty Festival, the bounty stage does not start after the completion of late registration but only on the final day.

The flights for such events have three structures: