Rack up Bounties in Football-Themed Kick-off Tournaments at PokerStars
While it’s true that poker and football are quite different, it’s also a fact that poker players tend to like football (and football players play poker!).
“The thrill of poker. The fun of football” is how PokerStars present their Kick-Off tournaments, and this football-themed certainly does add an entertaining twist to the already exciting (and potentially rewarding) Bounty tournament format.
Indeed, despite the five buy-in levels being $1, $2, $5, $12 and $25 (10% of buy-ins goes to rake), you can still rack up bounty rewards worth more than $50,000 for knocking out your rivals!
Kick-off Tournaments: How It Works
The format revolves around bounties, and it is your initial buy-in that sets the ball rolling by representing your progress and your total bounty value. The flexibility of Kick-Off tournaments is the facility to choose your buy-in amount from the five levels mentioned above.
Once registered, you are thrown into a Sit & Go Hyper Turbo tournament against three players with a similar ‘value’. You can then win instant prizes by eliminating opponents, which in turn increases your own value, the mechanics being that, when you earn a bounty, your value goes up by a given percentage of your opponent’s value.
All bounties can be multiplied (including your own!), thus increasing the prizes that can be won.
By winning at your table you move up the field to the next level, and so on as you successfully battle your way up the levels. You can follow your progress in the Lobby.
Note that if you reach a cumulative value of $50 or more you’ll win your bounty value, plus any additional bounties you’ve racked up!
Prizes and Probabilities
At the beginning of each game, the average bounty value between the four players defines the following:
- The percentage of each player's value that will go towards the progressive parts
- The percentage used to define the amount that is awarded to the players (immediately)
- The probability of each prize multiplier when the elimination occurs
| Average bounty value | Progressive percentage | Prize percentage (before multiplier) |
|---|---|---|
| From $0.90 to $10.80 | 50% | 25% |
| $10.81 and above | 60% | 20% |
Example
Looking at the table, above, if the average bounty value at the start of the game is $10, and you eliminate a player with a value of $10, your own value will increase by $5 (50%) and you (immediately) win $2.50 (25%), and this value will be multiplied by a number between 1 and 300, based on probability.
N.B. Kick-Off tournaments allow you to win a game and choose to play later, rather than continuing immediately. In this case, your entry will be paused until you choose to resume, and if you don’t resume the game within 60 days your entry will be cashed out automatically and you’ll be awarded the value of your entry in cash.
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Good luck at the tables, and have fun!
