ACR Poker Schedules $650,000 Halloween Mystery PKO Slate
Three multi-flight tournaments begin Oct. 18, with mystery bounties and progressive knockouts unlocked on Day 2.
- ACR Poker’s three Halloween Mystery PKO tournaments run from Oct. 18 through Nov. 1 with $650,000 in combined guarantees.
- The schedule includes $5.50, $33 and $109 buy-ins, with all three events returning for Day 2 on Nov. 1.
- The format holds bounty action until Day 2, then splits each elimination bounty between an immediate award and the eliminator’s growing bounty.
- The series follows early-October testing of low-cost multi-flight Mystery Bounty events.
ACR Poker will run three Halloween Mystery PKO tournaments from Oct. 18 through Nov. 1, putting a combined $650,000 in guaranteed prize money across buy-ins of $5.50, $33 and $109.
The low-stakes event carries a $50,000 guarantee and reaches Day 2 at 2:30 p.m. ET on Nov. 1. The $33 tournament guarantees $100,000, with Day 2 beginning at 11:05 p.m. ET, while the $109 edition has a $500,000 guarantee and resumes at 4:30 p.m. ET.
Starting flights for all three events will run simultaneously every two hours. Although they share the Halloween branding and overall date range, their Day 2 schedules and structures differ.
The rollout follows a period of low-cost, multi-flight Mystery Bounty testing at the start of October, according to PokerListings. Those events were described as highly popular, and an ACR PKO Mystery Bounty tournament finished with a five-way deal on Oct. 4.
Mystery KO combines random bounty awards with progressive-knockout mechanics. Bounties are locked through Day 1 and become active on Day 2, when the bounty pool is randomly assigned among surviving entries. A player who eliminates an opponent receives half of that bounty immediately, while the other half is added to the winner’s own bounty.
ACR Poker’s Oct. 1 client update had introduced the Progressive Mystery Bounty format in multi-day tournaments. Players can find those events in the site’s Mystery Bounty lobby, which displays each tournament’s buy-in, schedule and structure.
The new Halloween slate follows ACR’s earlier seasonal Mystery Bounty promotion in 2025, which offered a single $250,000-guaranteed event with 116 Day 1 flights and knockout prizes ranging from $150 to $25,000.
