Interesting tourney concept

[johnnyrocket]

I am going to play in a home tourney today, I know some tournies use bounties on players if you knock them out. This tourney is simply a $20 tourney with a normal structure and each person puts in an extra $10 and every time you knock someone out you get $10. I think its interesting to do this for each player, I like the concept and has anyone tries it before or what do you think on it.

[Lottery Larry]

We just recently had our bounty tourney- the money came out of the regular prize pool and $5 per each knockout (the winner gets the extra $5 for "knocking out" themselves).

People enjoyed it. A lot of the bounty money went to the eventual money winners, but you'd expect that.

[Spike Forehand]

I tried this once. Each player was given an off-color chip (not used in the regular buy-in). When players were knocked out, they then gave their chip to the player that knocked them out, but could cash in any other chips they had for $5.

We didn't do it again because we felt it took too much away from the winner's prize pool (we were playing a $20 buy-in tourney - so 25% disappeared in bounty money).

As a variation, we now play with a bounty of $10 that is paid to whoever knocks out the previous month's tourney winner. Sometimes it leads to a little bit looser calls against that player's all-ins, since there is now a $10 overlay for winning that hand.

- Spike

[Small Fry]

Going to do this at my next tourney. My twist is that I'll use the bounty chips and it will cost $5 to get one. So It will have it's own money pool. Participation will be voluntary. But you can only collect or lose your chip to another player who is participating. If you get knocked out by a player not participating you end up getting your $5 back as you will not surrender your chip to them.

I'll see how it goes on the 19th.

[DeeVee8]

We do a Bounty Hunter event once per season where the top three players in the points standings have a bounty assigned to them. If you knock them out, you get "x" tourney points and "x" number of tournament chips.

If you're aggressive against the points leaders, you're rewarded in the points standing and in the tournament you're playing in. There's no real "cash" value to knocking someone out, just pride, points and chips.

[Lottery Larry]

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, but could cash in any other chips they had for $5.

We didn't do it again because we felt it took too much away from the winner's prize pool (we were playing a $20 buy-in tourney - so 25% disappeared in bounty money).

As a variation, we now play with a bounty of $10 that is paid to whoever knocks out the previous month's tourney winner. Sometimes it leads to a little bit looser calls against that player's all-ins, since there is now a $10 overlay for winning that hand.

- Spike

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Agreed, Spike, that's way too much of a percentage. Mine was only 11%, and that's a little high. I didn't want to make it an add-on $5 cost.

We do something similar to yours, called the Repeating Reigning Champion bounty. If someone wins two tourneys in a row, I take $10 from their first place prize. The next tourney, that $10 and $10 more from the current prize pool is the bounty on them.

If they win the next tourney, $10 + $10 more (now $40 bounty) for the next tourney, and so on.

[kassdog]

I think thanks to ub bounty tournys are on the rise. The are really fun to play and I really like them for that fact. That would be a sweat concept for wsop in like 2010 to have like $1500 buy in and a $100 bounty on everyones head.