partypoker.com – Bounty Tournaments in Poker
partypokercoml - Bounty tournaments are being added to the schedules of many poker sites these days, and are very enjoyable for players to participate in. The object of such a tournament, is to eliminate as many opposing player from the tournament as possible, although finishing in the prize money places pays money out too.
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With bounty tournaments, often each player will begin with a bounty on their head, and when they eliminated, 75% of that bounty is paid to the player who knocked them out, and 25% is added to that opposing players own bounty. In this fashion, the bounty earned for knocking players out tends to increase, the further through the tournament you get.
This is an interesting style of tournament, as it means that you can effectively guarantee yourself some prize money in the early stages of the tournament, and then be ‘freerolling’ the rest of the way to the money paying positions. It also means that if you have increased the bounty on your own head by eliminating players, you will have more players eager to call your all in bet once your chipstack drops below theirs. Some bounty tournaments are run differently however and only pay out one large bounty payment for a pre determined bounty player.
These too are enjoyable, but personally, I prefer the format where each players bounty increases with each player he dispatches. This way, every player has a chance to win some prize money even if they only make it half way through a tournament.
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