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888poker Strategy: Five Tips To Improve Your Bounty Tournament Game

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Bounty tournaments are on the way up—especially in the form of online progressive knock-out events and mystery bounty events in live settings.

The bounty format has plenty of appeal, with the long-term rewards of the tournament paytable supplemented by the short-term reward of knocking another player out and claiming the cash bounty on their head.

However, bounty tournaments require different skills and strategies to freeze out tournaments. If you want to start working on your bounty tournament strategy, here are five quick tips from 888poker to improve your bounty tournament game.

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Tip #1: Adjust Your ICM Thinking For All Ins

In a cash game, the value of an all-in is determined by the pot odds determined by the equity of your range versus your opponent's range, the size of the pot, and the size of the stacks involved.