Many poker players are opting to play in bounty poker tournaments no limit games as they are an ‘edge of your seat’ type of poker game. The bounties originate from each player’s buy-in and in many cases as much as half of it will be placed on your head as a bounty if someone takes you out in the game. There are lots of free poker websites now offering bounty tournaments where you can play free of charge without spending your own money.

When playing in a bounty poker tournament, it is imperative that you build your chip stack at the start if you want any hope of staying in the game. With the way the amount of players putting bounties of other players heads you will stand a better chance if you have a good stack to start with.

You can play this game in a couple of different ways.

You could stick to your normal game play, looking out for the final winnings and seeing the bounties as an added bonus. There are more risks than usual in doing this because of the bounty hunters calling with very average hands anytime a low stacked player is in the hand and possibly hitting an unexpected hand but if you have built that early chip lead you should still be in a good position even if you do lose with your premium cards.

The other way of playing would be to be aggressive when playing and build your chip stack by taking out as many bounties as possible. Playing this way is more risky, but you will still get to the end of the game.

I use a combination of them both, building my chip stack early in the game while most of the players left still have a decent stack, then, if during this process I have taken enough bounties to cover my buy-in I become much more aggressive, keeping in mind that i want to make it to my final destination which is to win or at least place in the prize pool.

If you have not tried bounty poker, do so, it is one of the most entertaining poker games online now and most poker sites offer at least some version of it. Try one of the free poker sites first if you’re not sure and play with no or very little risk before you go for it.