For three weeks starting July 5th, the felt turns into a shooting gallery. The Bounty Hunters Series is back in GGPoker with $80 million guaranteed across the run, and the whole thing is built on one simple, addictive premise: every time you send someone to the rail, you get paid on the spot. No waiting for a final table. No ICM sweat over a min-cash. You bust them, you bank it.
If you've never run deep in a bounty tournament, here's the pull. Progressive and mystery formats flip the usual math on its head. Suddenly the guy shoving 12 big blinds into your pocket aces isn't a cooler, he's a paycheck. That changes how the whole table plays, and if you understand the shift before your opponents do, that's where the edge lives.
The three headliners
Three events anchor the series, and they're spaced out so you can plan your bankroll around them instead of firing blind.
July 13th — $25 Mystery Bounty Mini Main, $2.5M GTD. The value play of the series. Twenty-five bucks buys you into a two-and-a-half-million-dollar prize pool with mystery bounties in the mix, which means the knockout you land in the money could be worth a rent payment or a rounding error. That randomness is the entire appeal. Day 2 kicks off the evening of the 13th.
July 20th — $5.40 Bounty Hunters Warm-Up, $1M GTD [Final Stage]. A five-dollar-and-change buy-in feeding a million guaranteed. This is the micro-stakes lottery ticket of the calendar, and the field will be enormous. Expect chaos, expect min-stacks flinging chips like confetti, and expect the run-good to matter as much as the reads.
July 27th — $108 Mystery Bounty Main Event, $5M GTD. The big one. Five million guaranteed, and ten players walk away with a $100,000 mystery bounty on top of whatever they make from the payout ladder. Pop the right envelope late and your tournament math stops mattering entirely. Day 2 runs the evening of the 27th.
The Bounty King Leaderboard: getting paid to be aggressive
Here's the part that rewards volume. Every bounty tournament in the series feeds the Bounty King Daily Leaderboard, with $40,000+ in prizes handed out every single day and a $1M pool over the run.
The scoring rewards you for knocking out real players in real events, scaled to buy-in:
| Buy-in | Points per knockout |
|---|---|
| $1 – $25 | 1 |
| $25.01 – $99.99 | 2 |
| $100 – $299 | 4 |
| $300 – $999 | 10 |
| $1,000+ | 15 |
The leaderboard resets daily on the 8:00 UTC clock and runs through 7:59:59 the next morning. Notice the curve isn't linear. Jumping from a $99 event to a $108 event doubles your points per KO, and one $1,000+ knockout is worth fifteen entries at the micros. If you're chasing the top of the board, stake selection matters more than raw hands played. A disciplined grinder firing a couple of mid-stakes bounty events can out-point someone spraying twenty micro tables.
Tie-breaker, worth knowing: if two players finish level, whoever hit the total first takes it, and if that's still tied, it goes to the end time of the tournament where the points were reached. Translation — reaching your ceiling early in the day is quietly better than grinding to the same number at 3am.
How to actually attack the schedule
The daily structure repeats in a rhythm you can build a session around. The $54 Bounty Hunters Daily Main at 16:30 UTC is the workhorse — $250K–$300K guarantees most days for a two-figure buy-in, with a $525 High Roller version running alongside it for anyone with the roll and the nerve. Weekday evenings stack the Monster Stack, Golden Vault, Throwdown, and Secret KO signature events around the 18:00 slot, each in HR / mid / mini flavors so you can pick your altitude.
Sundays go nuclear. The $54 Bounty Hunters Sunday Main Event carries a $1M guarantee for a buy-in most weekend warriors won't blink at, with the $525 HR version guaranteeing $1.25M above it. If you only fire one session a week, that's the one.
A few things worth keeping in your back pocket. Certain regions — the UK and Netherlands among them — need you to opt in before you're eligible, so check that before the series starts rather than after you've busted someone for a bounty that never lands. Guarantees, formats, and schedules can shift. And the leaderboard tickets are non-transferable, so don't win one planning to sell it.
The series runs July 5th through July 28th. Twenty-three days, $80 million in guarantees, and a format that pays you for the one thing every poker player secretly enjoys most: taking someone else's stack personally.
