The Mystery Bounty is here to stay with many believing it will become a dominant format
They offer the chance to win big money for knocking someone out, creating a buzz in the room
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The format will appear this week at the Unibet Open in Malta in the Chip Race Mystery Bounty
VSO News’ Dara O’Kearney gives some strategy tips for Mystery Bounty events in live poker competitions. [Image: Shutterstock.com] The next big thing
Over the course of my 15 years as an online poker pro, I’ve seen a number of new formats and innovations catch on. The first one I can think of is Full Tilt’s Rush Poker. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, it’s because it died with Full Tilt. The name that is, not the concept. Stars rebranded it as Zoom, and other online sites gave it their own name.
The (possibly apocryphal) story doing the rounds at the time was that the inventor of Rush walked in off the street and told Full Tilt he had an idea so good that it was worth a million dollars. They were understandably skeptical at the time until he told them the idea, at which point they agreed and paid the man to be first to market with a format that quickly took over online cash.
Spin and Go’s in all their names and guises similarly transformed online Sit and Go’s so that three players, fast games, and a lottery component to determine the prize pool became the dominant form. Progressive Knockout (PKO) tournaments did likewise in the Multi-Table Tournament space.It goes without saying there were also formats that failed to catch on (hello Flip Outs, Flip and Go’s, and Goodbye Timed Tournaments). There were also formats that burned bright for a while but then faded (who remembers 3x’s, or Double or Nothings?) A live innovation All of these innovations were almost […]
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