San Jose, Costa Rica – September 11, 2026 -- An online poker player known as "R88P" accidentally registered for the wrong tournament on Americas Cardroom and walked away with a $250,000 Mystery Bounty payout.
R88P intended to enter the $12 Million GTD No-Limit Hold'em Mystery Bounty Venom but instead confirmed registration for the separate $3 Million GTD Pot-Limit Omaha event. Both tournaments carried the same $2,650 buy-in and ran as distinct multi-day events.
The misclick locked the player into a different tournament
Unable to cancel the confirmed entry, R88P stayed in the PLO event and advanced to Day 2 last Monday. Mystery Bounties went active that day, with every remaining player already in the money and each knockout revealing the eliminated opponent's hidden bounty.
"Best part is I didn't mean to register PLO, misclicked only meant to play the no limit," R88P said.
One knockout delivered the tournament's largest possible bounty
One of R88P's Day 2 eliminations revealed the PLO event's top bounty of $250,000, the maximum available in that tournament. The No-Limit Hold'em event R88P had originally intended to play carried a larger top bounty of $500,000.
R88P went on to finish 13th in the PLO event, earning $10,840 in prize money on top of $265,000 in total bounties collected. The tournament's prize pool reached $3,095,000, surpassing its $3 million guarantee.
The site fast-tracked a crypto withdrawal request
Following the win, R88P asked Americas Cardroom to raise his cryptocurrency withdrawal limits. The request was processed immediately, letting the player move the sizable payout faster than standard limits would normally allow.
The outcome was later shared on social media platform X, turning the accidental registration into a story centered on a quarter-million-dollar bounty.