BetRivers adds mystery bounty poker tournaments
BetRivers Poker has scheduled the introduction of mystery bounty tournaments for October 27 across Pennsylvania, Michigan, Delaware, and West Virginia. The format joins the operator’s existing progressive knockout offering as its U.S. poker network marks its second anniversary.
Players compete for a conventional tournament prize pool alongside a separate pool of hidden knockout rewards. The mystery bounty stage begins once the tournament reaches the money, with qualifying eliminations allowing players to collect randomly assigned prizes.
The value of each reward remains concealed until the knockout is completed. Unlike progressive knockout tournaments, where a player’s displayed bounty changes during play, the mystery format draws its rewards from the remaining bounty pool.
Bounty prizes become available after the money bubble
The accompanying software includes a bounty payout table and information about the average remaining reward. Visual markers identify covered opponents who are all-in, while animations and sound effects accompany bounty reveals.
Pokerfuse reports that the rollout makes BetRivers the third regulated U.S. operator to offer mystery bounty tournaments, following WSOP Online and PokerStars on FanDuel. It also brings the format to the regulated online poker markets in Delaware and West Virginia.
The introduction coincides with Anniversary Week, which runs through November 1. Eligible players who played a real-money hand by October 25 are scheduled to receive a sit-and-go ticket on October 27 and a multi-table tournament ticket on October 30, with seven days to use each ticket.
