Push/Fold Tips for Bounty Tournaments [PKO Strategy]

If you want to make more profitable push/fold decisions in bounty/PKO tournaments, this is the poker tutorial video for you!

In this video, you'll learn why and how you need to change your shoving ranges in bounty tournaments compared with regular tournaments.

It folds to you in the Cut Off with 11bb and pocket twos. Do you shove or do you fold?

This video explores three different scenarios:

1. Chip EV
2. When you have one bounty
3. When you have three bounties

and discusses why and how you should adjust your shoving ranges.

There is no denying that PKOs and bounty tournaments such as the Gladiator on PartyPoker or the Bounty Builder $22 on PokerStars are becoming more and more popular. This video tackles one of the common misconceptions and perhaps counter-intuitive concepts that will help you make more profitable decisions at the table and avoid punting in the future.

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Gareth James is a professional poker player and coach, specialising in tournament poker, tournament mathematics and ICM. In 2016, he worked with Matt Berkey (Solve For Why, Results May Vary Vlogumentary) before and during the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl, focusing on ICM. He has also coached many MTT grinders who have final tabled, won and chopped various tournaments on PokerStars and PartyPoker including The Sunday Million and The Super Tuesday.

[konstantinostzaferis]

Great content Gareth.
You and RYE are the only channels on YT that produce such good wuality videos!
Keep them coming!

Cool video. The only thing what I don't understand. You can't only talk about one or three bounties. I mean if you shove 1/3 (=11bb) starting stack with one bounty it's a huge difference to a shove with 10 Starting stacks but 3 bounties. In your calculation the bounties should always be relative in startingchips !?

[noThankyou-gc]

im new to poker. Why does it say ICM next to all the non-folded players in the first example. Does that have anything to do with ICM implications?

[johnl]

New to your channel. Great content. Thx!

[eikeonodera]

Could you explain how did you set up HRC for these bounty calculations? It seems a little bit tricky.

[Gos]

I starting playing the 55$ gladiator on PP, so my starting bounty is 13.75$ and that equals 1/3 of starting stack of 50k, so a bounty of 13.75 equals 17K roughly ?Is this correct?
If a guy has say 33$ in the bubble next to his name is the bounty for him now 40$ or just the 33$, this is where i get confused;-)

[olegdoroshenko]

I had this situation yesterday: loose shortstack UTG shoves 12BB(this is 5th his shove in 20 hands), bounty for his head is 72$ while tournament in early ITM securing lowest pay-out, next page jump is just +10$. I am in BB with 17BB(4th stack on table)and everyone folded. Should I call any 2 in this situation?

[gabevirs]

How can I get those charts your using. Please help

[Jennifear]

22 in my opinion is an easy shove. What the calculator is not taking into account is that you currently have NOBODY covered an you can't win a bounty unless you double up. Future hands matter a lot and running with a short stack is not ideal in a game like this.

[jonnyb]

Even in the single bounty situation 22 is marginal enough that folding it would be reasonable,

[EricPollarrd]

Yeh that's all great and stuff but can yo now tell us how to calculate 4 players all in with a 1.7 nano second pokerstars timebank while 12 tabling? Mmm, thought not. All this bounty math is completely useless