Key Takeaways
- The “progressive” part of the bounty is only 30%, with 70% awarded immediately.
- This means that more money is spread out and removed from the prize pool as the tournament progresses.
- The operator has been trialing these 30% PKOs for two weeks with daily low stakes guaranteed tournaments.
Online poker giant PokerStars is experimenting with progressive knockout tournaments with a new structure in which more of the bounty is added to players’ winnings than on to their own bounty.
In a typical progressive knockout tournament, each time a player is eliminated, half of the bounty is awarded immediately to the player who knocks them out; the other half goes onto their own head. Thus, their own bounty on their head increases 50% every time they eliminate another player.
This is the standard format followed by most operators that offer progressive knockout tournaments.
However, PokerStars is trialing a new format in which the bounty on player’s heads increases just 30%; 70% of the bounty is paid out immediately.
