A bounty poker tournament has most of the same rules and gameplay as a regular game of Texas Hold‘em, but with one key difference, there is a bounty on everyone's head. For every player you knock out of the tournament, you receive a predetermined bonus as a reward. The more players you eliminate, the more you accumulate.

Bounty tournaments will generally split the initial buy-in into two pools; one is the normal prize payouts, while the second makes up the bounties paid to players for each bounty they score. This tournament type has many different formats, but the two most common are classic and progressive.

Bigger Prize Payouts

By the time a progressive Bounty game reaches the final table, bounties can be huge, and in some cases may have grown to be bigger than the prize payouts. This is why progressive bounty tournaments are so popular.