The 18th event of the 888poker Mystery Bounty Festival featured a $150,000 guarantee, the largest of the unique festival to date. Only the $160 buy-in $300,000 guaranteed Main Event, which gets underway on March 1, has more money up for grabs.
$150,000 seemed like an ambitious target to hit, but 888poker's customers turned out in droves for this $109 eight-handed mystery bounty tournament. Some 1,820 players, including re-entries, created a guarantee-busting $182,000 prize pool that included a huge $15,000 jackpot bounty payment. That monster-sized bounty was pulled out late into the penultimate day's action by Ukraine's "AntonTsi.