What a Mystery Bounty knockout is worth
In a Mystery Bounty nobody knows their envelope until they draw it, so the value of a knockout is the average of the envelopes still undrawn, turned into chips. That average moves with every bust, and the room shows it as a table of tiers you have to add up. Kohunter reads it from a screenshot.
Winamax and PokerStars show the average
There, one screenshot of the bounty panel is enough: the average is read directly and applied. On GG, ACR and 888 the room shows a table of tiers instead — the steps below.
Step by step (ACR example)
1: the lobby. 2: the rest of the payout list. 3: the chest popup — read Remaining, not Start.
- 1Paste the whole lobbyRoom, buy-in, entrants, players left, blinds and the first payouts are read at once — nothing to fill in first.
- 2Paste the rest of the payoutsMystery tournaments pay deep and the list rarely fits. Scroll it and paste again — a crop or the full lobby, the rows merge into the table.
- 3Paste the chest popupThe in-game popup listing each envelope amount and how many remain. The average applies itself once the table covers the field — 437 envelopes for 444 players here.
- 4Next update: paste againBetween screenshots you can edit the counts by hand — Players left follows. The result turns orange when the table falls behind.
The trap it guards against
- Chest tables are sorted by amount, so a cut-off popup is missing the top or the bottom of the ladder. With only its upper tiers in frame, the ACR example above averages $2,464 instead of $493. When the table covers less than 90% of the players left, the average waits for the rest — or you apply it anyway.
- Use the live popup, not the end-of-tournament recap: the recap shows the starting counts, not what is left.
Why the average and not my own envelope?
You can't know which envelope a knockout will draw; every remaining envelope is equally likely, so the average is what a knockout is worth to you when you decide.