I have not played them but with small fields, where maybe only 50 players cash, there has to be a limit to, how large the mystery bounties can get. So it is really that much more exciting than a regular PKO? Still I think, I could live with the format, but the low number of MTTs offered is kind of a deal breaker for me. And even more so, when I cant play SnGs to fill out the gaps.
If you are not lucky to win a big bounty, you're pretty much playing a very long regular tournament for a half of a prizepool (or whatever the division is precisely, but either way it's feels like a scum, if you are not lucky with bounties, and it's completely out of your control, you can do nothing here). Like I had a few very good tournaments, where I was getting like 10 KO once the KO stage kicked in and got only the minimum bounty each time. And mind you, they are not progressive bounties, neither you're in the ITM still, when this bounty stage comes.
And when in the ITM, you get to the final table, where only top 2 places are bigger than the biggest bounty, half of the FT places are a 15-55% of the biggest bounty which goes to just one player (I had tournaments where even top 1 was less than the biggest bounty, it depends I guess or they changed it a bit, I don't want to go and analyze, but the idea still stands regardless). So you played a big, long tournament, getting to a FT of which usually would mean good $, but if you got unlucky with bounties you are playing for inadequately small prizes on the FT. If you make a few trips to the FT like this, you'll get what I'm talking about and what I mean by this feeling like a scum. If, on the contrary, you'll luckbox yourself a good bounty or a good number of average to higher bounties, you might disagree. I also had such a stage of my perception, because I got rather lucky with these MB in the beginning (but never won a top bounty anywhere, btw).
But the more you play them, the more you'll understand that it's a tournament of even greater variance, because here even your winnings are random and out of you control and are very variable, even if you're running good and getting to the late stage. It's a total scum compared to PKO, where you know - the further you get, the bigger the bounties are and the prizepool is mostly concentrated here, it's a fun and exciting stage which pays you well. And it's twice worse than a regular tournament, because the structure, length, size is the same, but you playing only for a half of the prizepool. Majority of time late stage here is just a boring play for tiny prizes, which equal the prizes of a tournament of A LOT smaller size, all excitement is already gone, and bigger bounties are taken by players who busted way before the ITM.
Of course, it depends and vary greatly from tournament to tournament, but overall I don't want this additional roller coaster, I 1000% prefer PKO over this MB 💩👎🙄
