Imagine you are a normal low to midstakes player and you go to turn on the classic 25 bounty. The guarantee is 80k and you're gradually working your way up the field. In one of the normal hands, you open 9 7 on the CO and receive a call from one opponent. On the flop 9 7 5 you're getting into alli-nu, in the showdown you're up against 8 8 . Your two pairs hold, and you enjoy your newfound chips and six extra dollars for eliminating a player.

However, the rather routine affair is suddenly disrupted by something special - a bounty jackpot slip appears on the screen and you are already enjoying the bonus, which is estimated to be up to $1,000. The paper with the amount of the bonus spreads out and you can't believe your eyes - you've hit the jackpot!

This is exactly the scenario experienced by a Russian player named Tony Vallelonga, who took home a $1,000,000 bonus! For the tournament in question, this prize is equivalent to 12.5 times the guarantee of the entire tournament, which was played by roughly 4,000 people.

🚨 $1,000,000 MEGA BOUNTY JACKPOT 🚨

A HUGE congratulations to Tony Vallelonga for winning the $1M Mega Bounty Jackpot in the $25 GGMasters Bounty Warm-Up! 💰💰💰

Now ask yourself... do YOU feel lucky? 🤠#ThanksGG pic.twitter.com/AMN3wUIXmu

- GGPoker (@GGPoker) February 28, 2024

Jackpot probability
 

The unique jackpot format at GG Poker isn't set up in the classic style where the jackpot grows in value as the stakes rise. On the contrary, the same jackpot is possible for any player, where the probability of hitting it also increases as the buy-ins increase. Successive accumulation also increases the notional chance, and smaller jackpots fall roughly once every 1,000 knockouts. However, the most likely percentile of the jackpot is only 0.5% of the total jackpot amount. In the table below you can see the jackpot amount and probability of hitting the jackpot given the buy-in of the tournament.

Source - GGPoker, PokerNews, Twitter (X)