Here’s my beef. Bounties are a gimmick that significantly reduce the prize pool for the people who cash. But that big prize pool at the end is the whole point of tournaments.
You can say bounties reward a particular style of play, and that’s true. But that style of play already has its own rewards - when done successfully, you accumulate the kind of huge stack that dominates final tables. You don’t need to give extra rewards for that kind of aggressive play.
I say bounties are just a gimmick to draw in impatient action junkies who should probably just stay at the cash tables.
Admittedly I’m biased - I tend to play a Negreanu small ball style where I’m just trying to increase my stack incrementally, without putting it at risk. So if I catch any bounties at all, it’s usually very few, and late in the tournament.
Redistributing 30% or more of the prize pool as bounties just cheapens the tournament. No thanks.
You can say bounties reward a particular style of play, and that’s true. But that style of play already has its own rewards - when done successfully, you accumulate the kind of huge stack that dominates final tables. You don’t need to give extra rewards for that kind of aggressive play.
I say bounties are just a gimmick to draw in impatient action junkies who should probably just stay at the cash tables.
Admittedly I’m biased - I tend to play a Negreanu small ball style where I’m just trying to increase my stack incrementally, without putting it at risk. So if I catch any bounties at all, it’s usually very few, and late in the tournament.
Redistributing 30% or more of the prize pool as bounties just cheapens the tournament. No thanks.