{"id":35743,"date":"2026-06-04T18:47:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/?p=35743"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:46:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:46:41","slug":"world-series-of-poker-mystery-bounty-event-players-hit-it-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/world-series-of-poker-mystery-bounty-event-players-hit-it-big\/","title":{"rendered":"World Series of Poker Mystery Bounty Event Players Hit it Big"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andrew Shelton celebrates after pulling the $1 million envelope at the WSOP. (Image: WSOP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man from Connecticut finished the tournament in 102nd place for $3,350 –plus $1 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course he went crazy after pulling the envelop with the largest bounty in the event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Drugs, alcohol, and women,” he told WSOP host Jeff Platt after being asked what he’s doing with the money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are several more Mystery Bounty events on both live<\/a> and online<\/a> WSOP’s schedules, so get in the game and good luck!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":35744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[497,527,525,503,529,7421,499,7415,535,523],"tags":[],"vertical":[],"class_list":["post-35743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-poker-business","category-cardschat-community","category-casino","category-buzz","category-poker-buzz","category-poker","category-poker-news","category-tournament-schedules","category-wsop-news"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":35743},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.casino.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/122af1049f169935439a229d65bfb75b-600x400.webp","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.casino.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/122af1049f169935439a229d65bfb75b-600x600.webp","author_info":{"display_name":"Bob Pajich","author_link":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/author\/bob-pajich\/"},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35743"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=35743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}