The Bounty Hunters Series is GGPoker’s knockout festival, and the 2026 editions carried $80,000,000 in guarantees across roughly 400 tournaments — the biggest guaranteed bounty series online poker has run, up around 60% on the $50M version before it. Buy-ins start at $5.40 and stop at $1,050–$1,500, so the entire schedule is playable on a two-figure bankroll. Asian players get the same prize pools through Natural8, the GGNetwork skin that serves the region.
GGPoker ran the series twice in 2026 — April 5–28 and again July 5–28 — with the same $80M headline each time. There is no confirmed date for the next edition yet, but the shape barely changes between runs, so the numbers below are the ones to plan around.
Three events carry the whole schedule
Most of the 400-odd tournaments are ordinary daily knockouts. Three are not:
- $108 Mystery Bounty Main Event — $5,000,000 GTD. The flagship, with Day 2 on the final Monday of the series. A single mystery envelope in the last phase can be worth $100,000 off that $108 entry.
- $25 Mystery Bounty Mini Main — $2,500,000 GTD. Mid-series, and the best guarantee-per-dollar on the calendar.
- $5.40 Bounty Hunters Warm-Up — $1,000,000 GTD. A seven-figure prize pool for the price of a coffee. Field sizes are brutal, but the price of entry means nothing.
There is also a $525 Main Event variant carrying $1.25M for players who want a shorter queue at a higher price. Outside the marquees, daily events run $200,000–$300,000 guaranteed and Sunday majors sit at $1,000,000.
Bounty maths changes event to event
The series mixes three different knockout structures, and they do not play the same way. Regular KO pays a flat bounty on every elimination. Progressive KO splits each bounty — half to you, half onto your own head — which is why late-stage PKO pots get so large; we break the arithmetic down in our guide to progressive knockout bounties. Mystery bounty holds every reward back until a designated phase, then pays random amounts, which is what creates the $100k-for-$108 headlines. If you have never played the format, read how mystery bounty payouts actually work before the Main Event — the correct calling ranges shift dramatically once the envelopes are live.
Practical consequence: the same $50 in your account is worth more in a mystery bounty on day one of the phase than in a regular KO, because the equity is concentrated rather than dripped out.
What a real run through the series costs
Ignore the $80M and count bullets instead. A conservative plan — the $5.40 Warm-Up, the $25 Mini Main, one $108 Main Event entry and a handful of $10–$25 dailies — lands somewhere near $250 for the month. Re-entries are where budgets die: most of these events allow multiple bullets, and three shots at the $108 Main is $324 before you have played a satellite.
Satellites are the sane route. GGNetwork feeds the Main from steps costing a couple of dollars, and the Warm-Up itself doubles as a qualifying path. If you are already grinding GGMasters, the same ticket balance usually covers series entries too.
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Timing, skins and the leaderboard from an Asian clock
This is the part that decides whether the series is worth your sleep. Natural8 runs its daily leaderboard on a 4:00 p.m. to 3:59 p.m. HKT cycle, so a “day” for scoring purposes ends in the Hong Kong afternoon, not at midnight UTC. Plan sessions against that boundary or you will split a good run across two leaderboard days and score for neither.
The leaderboard pool is $1,000,000 across the series, paid roughly $40,000 a day to about 1,500 players. Points scale by buy-in on a 1–15 ladder: $1–$25 events earn a single point, $1,000+ events earn fifteen. Micro-stakes volume can genuinely place, but only with a lot of entries.
Cash game players are not left out either — the series carries around $2,000,000 in cash drops alongside the tournaments.
On skins: Natural8 and GGPoker share the same tables and the same prize pools, so your choice is about deposit methods, support language and local access rather than game quality. Our Natural8 vs GGPoker comparison covers which one makes sense from where you sit.
FAQ
How much does the Bounty Hunters Series Main Event cost?
The Mystery Bounty Main Event is $108, with a $5,000,000 guarantee. A $525 version runs alongside it with $1.25M guaranteed.
Can I play the Bounty Hunters Series from Asia?
Yes. Asian players usually access it through Natural8, which shares GGNetwork’s tables and prize pools, with schedules and leaderboards keyed to Hong Kong time.
What is the cheapest event in the series?
The $5.40 Bounty Hunters Warm-Up, which still carries a $1,000,000 guarantee. Satellites into larger events start lower still.
How big can a single mystery bounty get?
The top envelope in the Main Event is $100,000 — roughly 925 times the $108 buy-in.
How many events are in the series?
Around 400 across the four-week run, with at least eight six-figure guarantees every day.
How does the daily leaderboard work?
Points are awarded on a 1–15 scale based on buy-in, with about $40,000 shared among roughly 1,500 players per day and $1,000,000 across the series.
When does the next Bounty Hunters Series run?
GGPoker held two editions in 2026, in April and July. The next date has not been announced, but the series has been running multiple times a year with a consistent structure.