Mystery Bounty Introduction Event draws 246 runnners; prize pool and bounty prizes announced

The Asian Poker Tour‘s first live event in two years opened with a smasher with 246 runners turning up for the APT Mystery Bounty Introduction Event. This more than doubled the advertised 300K guarantee. Players are now looking at a prize pool of PHP 738,000 of which the top 25 places (10% of the field) will earn a cut. Out of the PHP 469,900 main prize pool, the champion is looking at a sweet PHP 113,700.

Here’s a look at the breakdown: 

Buy in: PHP 3,300
Guarantee: PHP 300,000
Entries: 246
Main prize pool: PHP 469,900
Bounty prize pool: PHP 246,000 
ITM: 25 places

Once the money is reached, the mystery bounty rewards will be put into play. Prizes range from PHP 2,000 to PHP 44,000. Who will get lucky and draw the biggest prizes? 

Mystery Bounty prizes are as follows:

PHP 44,000 – 3 pieces
PHP 10,200 – 7 pieces
PHP 4,050 – 2 pieces
PHP 3,500 – 3 pieces
PHP2,800 – 3 pieces 
PHP 2,400 – 4 pieces
PHP 2,000 – 3 pieces

At this time, 64 players remain. Two players sitting on massive stacks are Lemmor Patulot and Jeorge Lagatuz, both players with around 280K+, which is over 90 BB. 

Lemmor Patulot

Next update is the final recap. Who will walk away as the first APT Mystery Bounty Weekend champion? To find out, catch the final table action by joining the rails here at Resorts World Manila or head to APT Twitch or APT YouTube for the live stream.