bounty tournaments

[ryston]

What's the best strategy for playing rewards tournaments?

 

[amonlima]

In bounty tournaments you play more loosely, increasing your pre-flop calling range, calling with suited hands with good equity, because you have a greater incentive for the bounty, it is a part of the prize pool distributed, however, do not play like a madman calling with marginal hands.

 

[DiazPoker3101]

I think entering from the first level is ideal so you can play a greater number of hands and take note of your opponents. Also, the most important thing is to play within the bank because being bounty many times you have to make decisions where you have to pay with marginal hands preflop since it is worth taking more risk. For the villain's bounty

 

[thedarkman]

I think entering from the first level is ideal so you can play a greater number of hands and take note of your opponents. Also, the most important thing is to play within the bank because being bounty many times you have to make decisions where you have to pay with marginal hands preflop since it is worth taking more risk. For the villain's bounty

Just been put out of one tonight before the money, having a really bad run. This clown was raising with all manner of garbage and every time he hit, or almost every time. Put me out with total crap. Going to have to tighten up tonight, Saturday.

 

[Tero]

What's the best strategy for playing rewards tournaments?

Something to read:

Bounty & Progressive Knockout (PKO) Tournaments: Strategy & Tips

As we continue with diving into the topics of poker tournament formats, this thread will focus on bounty (Knockout or KO tournaments), and PKOs (Progressive Knockout tournaments). Bounty (KO or knockout) and progressive knockout tournaments (PKO) are one of the most popular formats you will...

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[Margo17]

I play more aggressively hunting bounties

 

[SPANKYSN]

I think entering from the first level is ideal so you can play a greater number of hands and take note of your opponents. Also, the most important thing is to play within the bank because being bounty many times you have to make decisions where you have to pay with marginal hands preflop since it is worth taking more risk. For the villain's bounty

Agree…your opponents have the fewest chips at the start, so that is the easiest time to get a knockout and claim a bounty. Risk reward dictates that you can play your premium hands more aggressively in order to claim bounties.

 

[Newzooozooo]

I don't really like these tournaments, but if I play in them, I just play a bigger range of hands and play more aggressively. I don't like these tournaments because there are often situations when players can play with some absolute junk for the sake of bounty.

 

[fundiver199]

The main adjustment to bounty tournaments is, that you need to be more willing to get it in, when you can win somebodys bounty. Lets say its the first hand of a PKO, and some fish open ships from UTG for his 100BB stack. You look down at AKo in the big blind, and it folds to you. Now lets pretend, you know for a fact, that this player always has a small pair like 22-88, when he do this.

Then in a regular tournament you would fold, because dubbling your stack does not dubble your expected value in the tournament due to the fact, you can only win one of the prices. This is commonly referred to as "ICM", although a better term is risk aversion. However in a bounty tournament, if you call and win, you will not only dubble your stack but also outright win a bounty, which in the most common format is 25% of your buyin.

And this more than compensates for the fact, that having twice as many chips does not quite dubble your expected value in the rest of the tournament. The best way to view this is, that if the starting stack is 10.000 chips, now there is a giant 2.500 ante in the middle, and this gives you significantly better pot odds to make the call.

All other adjustments basically center around this idea of less risk aversion. If you are choosing between different lines, you should be more likely to choose the one, which puts your opponent all-in, if you can win their bounty. Like maybe a small river bet will get called more often, but if an all-in sizing allow you to win a bounty, then you should lean towards using that sizing.

 

[Sparta77]

elleinte tight then aggressive

 

[makisaa]

Generally it is a tournament you play aggressively. You cannot be passive or too patient, you must attack and try to rise your stack as early as possible!

 

[Igor Popadyk]

Play more lousal- as for me it is a more profitable strategy but you need to be more attentive to rivals

 

[Uncloggie]

Take the day of the month divided by the month multiply by your birthday year then divide by the day. Factor that down to a single digit X , then every Xth hand go all in. You're welcome, Just send me half your winnings...lol

 

[Ruslan L]

What's the best strategy for playing rewards tournaments?

I tried to play these tournaments in different ways, and as a result, I realised that these tournaments only increase my blood pressure...... And by the way, I'm recovering from a heart attack.
So I just play regular classic MTT tournaments.

 

[ramdon p358]

Most people play these types of tournaments aggressively, I think that if you play patiently you can get a lot out of these situations.

 

[23maxim88]

Something to read:

Bounty & Progressive Knockout (PKO) Tournaments: Strategy & Tips

As we continue with diving into the topics of poker tournament formats, this thread will focus on bounty (Knockout or KO tournaments), and PKOs (Progressive Knockout tournaments). Bounty (KO or knockout) and progressive knockout tournaments (PKO) are one of the most popular formats you will...

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Oh thanks, just what I needed — I’ll give it a read.

 

[mariale_1990]

I think that each person can face this type of tournaments in different ways, some like to play very aggressively from the start and others like to play more carefully, I am one of those players who likes to play a little more carefully and not take unnecessary risks just to get a bounty, each player has a strategy that they discover over time

 

[Fumogrosso]

Bounty reduces poker variance well, gives a bit of stability to the bankroll

 

[dreamer13]

There are options that suggest that events will develop with different dynamics and reward structures.In this poker variation, the focus is not on winning, but on eliminating as many opponents as possible from the game.KO or KnockOut. This type of tournament is determined by the fact that the amount of the reward for the opponent knocked out of the game remains unchanged and is retained until the final.You need to carefully study the features of each type in order to choose the right option for yourself, since they also differ in the intensity of passions and excitement.

 

[userX]

What's the best strategy for playing rewards tournaments?

I play quite conservatively in these tournaments, I think too conservatively. Sometimes it doesn't allow me to be effective enough. I play in these tournaments only if I win a ticket, because I don't think it's a good idea to spend money on these tournaments. In general, I think in tournaments of this format, you need to play more aggressively, play more hands and not be afraid to end the tournament early

 

[P0k3rCh41r]

Thats exactly how i approach the Bounty games so your not alone in that respect userx, especially because most bounty tournaments are flighted events and if your short stacked from the outset like i was last night its tough going unless you double up asap...anyway hope to see you at the tables P0k3rCh41r.

 

[dzsire]

Of course, you have to approach it differently than a regular tournament. Collecting bounties gives the game an extra flavor, everyone is everyone's enemy in exchange for a little bounty. I think it requires a more aggressive game than a regular tournament.

 

[Claudiunm]

It depends on your goals. If your target is the FT, play solidly and aggressively from the beginning, but don't be recklessly aggressive. If your target is just the ITM and anything after that is a profit, enter at the last minute, wait for a very good hand to play and be aggressive when that hand arrives.