Bounty Poker Tournaments

With the popularity of poker growing significantly over the past few years and still continuing to do so, online poker rooms are having to find new and exciting ways to keep players returning to the site and participating in games and tournaments.

With this realization, poker sites have thought about new innovative ways to improve the draw factors of their tournament line up by adding in new and exciting features without removing any of the game play that already exists within them.

The sites set to work on creating new bounty style tournaments that saw selected players within the player field having an additional prize fund placed on their elimination, meaning that any player who was responsible for knocking that player out of the tournament would receive an instant cash reward that would be credited into their players account.

The birth of bounty tournaments saw a huge influx of players rushing to participate within the tournaments, knowing that they were able to win a prize fund that was moderate to the total prize pool of the tournament, knowing that they would not have to even place within the paying positions should they be the player to become the bounty hunter and eliminate the player with a price on their head.

Further improvement of the bounty tournament idea has meant that now many poker rooms offer a number of bounties within a tournament, with high quality players and professionals been made the target for all hopefuls.

Full Tilt Poker seem to have taken the development that step further, creating tournaments where every player that enters into a tournament having a smaller price placed on to their tournament life, often starting at $5.

To take the new all player bounty theme to a new level, for every opponent that a player eliminates, an additional amount of money is placed onto that player, meaning that the more opponents that the player eliminates, the more that player is worth in terms of bounty funds.

With bounty tournaments being made more readily available across online poker rooms, popularity for this style of game is growing and so sites are now looking to add in celebrities and well known professional poker players into the games, offering players the opportunity to make a name for themselves within the poker scene as well as creating new stories to share with their peers.

A players approach to playing a bounty tournament should be altered significantly in order to remain within the game due to the high desire for players to eliminate you, meaning that pots tend to be played more aggressively by players with a strong hand.

The best approach that you can make to these tournaments is to hold a very tight stance, waiting for the premium poker starter hands and then looking to bet them aggressively in the hope that you find some action from the opponents seated around you.

Blind stealing seems to be a thing of the past with these tournaments as players look to retain their chips and only play hands in which they are ready to place their tournament life on..