Winner to be Crowned in Event #29: $25 Main Event Mystery Bounty
The culmination of the 2023 888 Poker KO Games, Event #29: $25 Main Event Mystery Bounty, attracted a total of 8,008 entries across Day 1 flights to meet the lofty $200,000 guarantee. After two full days of play, just eight hopefuls remain, all looking to secure the $10,800 first place prize to go along with any bounties they have collected along the way.
Brazil's "and_ortega" leads the pack entering the final table with a massive 31,884,159 stack, good for 159 Big Blinds. Not too far behind them sits "Bkira" of Ukraine, who managed to accumulate 27,564,801 in chips. There is something of a dropoff after that as "fjreis" rounds out the top three on 13,277,350, still a healthy 66 Big Blind stack.
Final Table Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Day 3 Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "and_ortega" | Brazil | 31,884,159 | 159 |
| 2 | "Bkira" | Ukraine | 27,564,801 | 138 |
| 3 | "fjreis" | Brazil | 13,277,350 | 66 |
| 4 | "VArabia" | Romania | 5,609,050 | 28 |
| 5 | "VL1fish3BV" | Romania | 5,284,948 | 26 |
| 6 | "Kvick88" | United Kingdom | 5,244,668 | 26 |
| 7 | "AELlike_it_3" | Cyprus | 4,350,318 | 22 |
| 8 | "KiddPT" | Netherlands | 2,868,706 | 14 |
Play gets started at 2 p.m. ET with blinds resuming in Level 44 at 100,000/200,000 with a 25,000 ante. The blinds will continue to increase every 12-minutes and play will continue until a winner is crowned. Although the average stack sits at a deep 60 Big Blinds, that number is heavily skewed to the top three with many short stacks bringing up the rear. The chip distribution should make for some interesting ICM dynamics so be sure to stay tuned to PokerNews as its live reporting team wraps up coverage of Event #29: $25 Main Event Mystery Bounty.