It’s no mystery why poker players love the Mystery Bounty format. The chance to randomly win thousands of times the buy-in is too hard to resist for most.
Andrew Shelton is experience his five-minutes-of-fame after pulling the golden envelope in the $550 Mini Mystery Millions that was worth $1 million.
The man from Connecticut finished the tournament in 102nd place for $3,350 –plus $1 million.
Of course he went crazy after pulling the envelop with the largest bounty in the event.
“Drugs, alcohol, and women,” he told WSOP host Jeff Platt after being asked what he’s doing with the money.
Paying his credit debt was the real answer that came later, peppered with celebratory f-bombs. And who could blame him? The guy had seven Hendon Mob-listed cashes before this one for around $20,000.
The tourney brought-in 20,488 entrants who were going for a top-prize of $400,000 and a chance to walk to the barrel and pull out an envelop for a bonus. Ranging from $500 to the golden goose $1 million, it’s always an exciting time to be in the Horseshoe when the bounties kick-in.
Meanwhile, on WSOP Online, the $555 buy-in Mystery Bounty bracelet event snuck past its $1 million prize-pool guarantee by $31,000 thanks to 2,063 entries.
Brad “Furdy” Gafford, who won the $1,000 Mini Mini Event at the WSOP in 2023, was the lucky player who pulled the biggest bounty of the tourney, a $100,000 banger.
He finished 13th for another $3,454. The winner of the event, Tomesch1981, won $69,307 plus around $4,000 in bounties as well as the bracelet.
There are several more Mystery Bounty events on both live and online WSOP’s schedules, so get in the game and good luck!
