Common Misconceptions About Monopoly Go

Bank Heist

• When you get a message during a heist saying you bankrupted the victim of your heist, it is usually a false message. You get the message saying you bankrupted the victim if you get all three golden rings in the heist. You rarely bankrupted anyone. All you did is get three golden rings. 
• When you bank heist someone and it says you stole 100 billion dollars, you did not steal that from the victim of the heist. He may have been bankrupt already, in which case you will have taken zero dollars from him. However, even if he was not bankrupt, the amount you took relates to your net worth at the time of the heist, and to the net worth milestones you have reached relating to heists. The amount he lost relates to his net worth at the time of the heist. If I start a new account, it may show that I heisted 10,000 from you. However, on your end, you may lose 100 billion dollars. Milestones in net worth, those rewards you get every so often, determine heist amounts. 

Shut Down Process

Some people establish shutdown partners, someone you can shut down for full rewards and in turn they can shut you down for full rewards. If you have a single account, I highly recommend it because the lost rewards for a shielded shutdown are substantial, whereas the cost or rebuilding a building is far less substantial. However, there are a few thing to know: 

1. Shutdowns affect your net worth. If each building has 3 circles and you shut each one down three times, that is 15 shut downs. Your net worth is reduced by 15 to represent the shut downs. When you repair the buildings, your net worth will return to its former value instead of adding net worth. In other words, people shutting you down reduces your net worth and your next building efforts are to get back where you were, not to get ahead. I am OK with this. Lower net worth has benefits. 
2. Your victims shutdowns are cached. For example, if you have accounts A, B and C and A starts out fully shieled with five shields and then B and C each hit account A three times,  you would expect to have taken out all of A's shields and it should then be safe to crank up the multiplier. It is not safe and A is still shielded for you. In order to immediately see the damage done by B, C has to restart the app. Ditto for B. I have been bitten by this gotcha many times. I tend to forget. However, it can work to our advantage. 
3. The above fact can be used to your advantage if you have multiple accounts and shut yourself down for full rewards. Once you get As shields down, have two accounts hitting A simultaneously. Each account will not see the other accounts shutdowns and even once A is completely flattened from A's app perspective, B and C are still shutting him down for full rewards. 

Tournaments

You see someone who has 7000 more tokens than everyone else in the tournament and you think: "How stupid. He wasted all his dice just to win a few in a tournament. No he didn't. He likely could not care less about winning, and is instead a very good strategic player. Good players play tournaments up until the point where the rewards become "inverted," and if they use APM or something, they rightfully finish them. If you think because they have so many more tokens/milestones than everyone else in the tournament, that this means they are trying to win it, then it means that is probably what it would mean for you in that situation. In that case, just know, they rarely care about wining a tournament: Winning Tournaments. One way to tell, is if they were just trying to win the tournament, they would only be a few thousand dice ahead of the others. Successful players don't throw away dice and if they have the means to get that far ahead, they are most likely a successful player.