Bounty Tournament Theory and Practice
Topics covered will include bounty tournaments structures, how to fairly accurately estimate the added value of a bounty in a hand in game throughout the tournament, how to study and review bounty hands you play with bounty simulations in Holdem Resources Calculator (HRC) for both PKO and MB formats, as well as the math behind how HRC calculates positive and negative risk premiums.
Topics covered include:
What are Progressive Knockouts (PKOs), Standard Knockout (SKos) and Mystery Bounty tournaments? What do they look like and how are they structured? Dr. K takes you through the basics of bounty tournaments, discussing the similarities and differences between these formats.
Dr. K explains their major advancement in bounty theory and math: the BAR formula. In their original and proprietary research, Dr. K has solved the major known problem with what are known as “bounty power” or “bounty factor” formulas: they don’t work past the early stages of the tournament. Dr. K offers a major advancement in bounty theory and math with the BAR formula, rendering all other courses currently on the market obsolete. In this section, Dr. K explains the BAR formula and how to use it in game.
This section is for all the math and theory heads, and can be skipped if that’s not your thing. But for those who want to do the deep dive, Dr. K goes through their original research on bounty tournaments to show you the calculations, including how to calculate ICM (Independent chip model) positive and bounty negative risk premiums in bounty tournaments to get the same results as Holdem Resources Calculator (HRC) and ICMizer. Dr. K also demonstrates how to properly run PKO and MB simulations in HRC and ICMizer.
In this section, Dr. K goes through the practical applications of how we should adapt our and our opponents ranges from non-bounty tournaments to bounty tournaments in both heads up and multiway pots.
Dr. K explains the basic ideas of the Independent Chip Model (ICM) theory and demonstrates the practical applications of how bounties interact with ICM.
From the first hand of the tournament, to mid stages, to pre- and post-bubble play and through to the final table and last hand of a bounty tournament, Dr. K takes you through their recommended strategies based on the theory and math work they’ve done, demonstrating how to adjust based on what stage of the tournament you are in.
Dr. K closes out the course with some reviews and their top tips and & takeaways from the course.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this seminar series, Dr. K explains the rules, fundamentals, and strategies of the bounty tournaments to help you make adjustments in real time in-game.
In this course, Dr. K offers a major advancement in bounty theory and math: the BAR formula. In their original and proprietary research, Dr. K has solved the major known problem with what are known as “bounty power” or “bounty factor” formulas: they don’t work past the early stages of the tournament. Dr. K offers a major advancement in bounty theory and math with the BAR formula, rendering all other courses on bounty tournaments currently on the market obsolete.
Dr. K synthesizes bounty tournament theory (Progressive Knockout Tournaments (PKOs), Standard Knockout Tournaments (SKOs) and Mystery Bounty formats) in order to help you understand the fundamental differences of the bounty format vs non bounty tournaments.
To celebrate the launch of the course, Dr. K will offer weekly live seminar sessions discussing and expanding upon course materials from June 10 – August 5 as a bonus for all course subscribers.
COURSE START DATE: Saturday June 10, 2023 at 1pm ET / 7pm CET.
This course is designed for intermediate to advanced players who have at least moderate experience with NLHE tournaments, as discussion will focus on adjusting from regular, non-bounty NLHE MTTs. All members have access the preliminary course overview: 18 videos totalling nearly 3 hours of training covering the fundamentals of bounty tournaments.