$1,000,000 Bounty Up for Grabs in Event #5: $1,000 Mystery Millions

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Today sees the start of Event #5: $1,000 Mystery Millions No-Limit Hold'em here at Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas. Live coverage of this event will start from Day 2.

This event has been on everyone's radar since the schedule was released, with the top bounty as well as the first place prize are guaranteed to be $1,000,000.

The first of four starting flights gets underway at 10 a.m. local time with late registration open for 12 levels. There will be 20-minute breaks every four levels, with a 75-minute dinner break at the end of Level 16 (~7:00 p.m.).

The starting stack is 40,000 chips with the plan for Day 1a to play 22 30-minute levels. Payouts start on Day 1, and for the surviving players, Day 2 resumes on Monday, June 3, at 11 a.m.

Last year's event saw a field of 18,188 players generate a prize pool of $4,587,950. The winner was Tyler Brown who defeated Guang Chen heads-up to win a cool $1,000,000.

“I took almost two years off poker," Brown told PokerNews. "I decided to come back at the end of last year, early this year, and it’s been unbelievable in these last six months.”

The event also saw two $1,000,000 bounties up for grabs, with Shant Marashlian the first player to pull the grand prize bounty early on Day 2. He was followed by Patrick Liang shortly after.

Year	Entries	Winner	Country	Payout
2023	18,188	Tyler Brown	United States	$1,000,000
2022	14,112	Quincy Borland	United States	$750,120

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