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Some online poker tournaments are formatted at “bounty” events that offer additional prizes beyond simply paying out to the top percentage of casino winners. What exactly is a bounty tournament? In a bounty online poker tournament, any time one player eliminates an opponent, the eliminator earns a bounty on the kill. This creates extra incentive to knock out other players. By winning a bounty, a player can offset the cost of entering the tournament. The amount of the bounty can vary. In some bounty tournaments, every bounty is the same reward, a fixed prize amount. Other bounty tournaments add an element of luck and surprise by setting up bounties like a raffle. The bounty winner picks out a ticket or a card with the prize amount from a container. The bounty might be low or high, and in some cases, it might even match the entry fee, thus turning the event into a free roll for that player. Where does the money come from to pay these bounties? It is part of the entry fee, which includes extra money that is set aside to pay the bounties. This makes the tournament a little more expensive to enter and reduces the amount of prize money paid to the top finishers. Adding a bounty element to low-priced home tournaments makes them more fun. For instance, for a home game with a $10 buy-in, each player can also put up $5, and when they push all their chips into the pot, the money goes too. Whoever wins the pot, wins the cash bounty too.

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