Jennifer Shahade joins David Lappin and Dara O’Kearney from the Chip Race to discuss a hand from the 3K Mystery Bounty event at EPT Barcelona. With bounties in play and the money bubble looming, Jennifer held Jack-Six suited, and got involved in a preflop confrontation with top Norweigian pro Preben Stokan and high roller Paul Newey.  

The discussion moves on to common strategies and misconceptions on the Mystery Bounty format, which is rapidly increasing in popularity. In this iteration, 1/3 of each player’s entry fee went to the mystery bounty pool. The bounties went into play on day two, with a little less than 40% of the field remaining. Each bounty was worth a little over $2500*, when accounting for some prizes that were added on, such as a Platinum Pass.     

Jennifer finished in 11^th place out of 1132 entrants.

A version of this episode appeared on the Chip Race, which also included interviews with Andrew Neeme and Zachary Elwood.  

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The GRID is sponsored by PokerStars. Logo art photo by Kyle Cassidy, intro music “Gotta Switch it On” by Grace Mesa.

*The formula for calculating this is to multiply the bounty value of each player by the number of entrants, then divide by the players remaining when bounties go into play.