Scott Ball's Day 2 action in Event #7 of the WSOP Online 2022 Event #7, Million Dollar Mystery Bounty, turned out to be one of those days... in the best sort of ways, though he didn't even recognize it as it occurred. Ball collected the event's top bounty, the million-dollar prize, just a short while into Day 2 play, but misread the award announcement he received, thinking he'd won one of many $1,000 min-pay bounties instead.
Bell had to be told by others that he'd actually won the big prize. At first, WSOP.com posted on Twitter that the $1 million mystery bounty had been claimed in the day's first minutes:
It took a few moments for someone to connect the "ItsRumcake" account to Ball. Kevin Rob Martin, another of the event's participants, posted on Twitter, "OMG. Minutes into day 2 the Million is already gone on @GGPoker mystery bounty. is that @EndGameScott ???" Martin also posted the image of bounties already awarded, which showed Ball's ItsRumcake account as having collected the top $1 million payout:
Sure enough, it was a huge hit for Ball, best known in poker as a double-bracelet winner in the 2021 WSOP and the champion of that year's VELO NO LIMITS leaderboard race, a one-time bonus that included only that year's no-limit events.
