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How to play Knockout Bounty Tournament | MTT Strategy Knockout Bounty Tournaments have recently been a big hit. You can now play bounty tournaments on leading  poker sites like Pokerstars , Full Tilt and now even India’s leading sites like thespartanpoker. Initially the Bounty Tournaments were started in India in Gurgaon, where the hosts of the house named Rollers Den organized a special tournament where the buy in of the tournament was 5k. Out of this buy in 4k was contributed to the prize pool and a wearable wrist band was given for the remaining 1k. The tournament usually had around 15-20 participants. The prize pool was distributed amongst the players who finished in the top four positions. Adding a twist to the usual tournament procedure an additional bounty was of Rs 1k was given to the player who eliminated any player during the tournament, leaving the player to get an additional bonus for eliminating the player from the tourney. Each player used to hand over their res...

Poker: A game of skill, NOT a game of luck Just as the question of chicken or egg – which came first, is often debated, so in playing circles, the question that often arises is whether poker is a game of skill or that of luck? Piggybacking on this question is a doubt of moral conscience that keeps popping into the minds of those deft at this game, as the horns of dilemma lead to whether one is a patron of gambling or likes to showcase one’s mastery of skills! Since big money is involved, this bearing weighs heavily. This question also becomes vital in order to view the game of poker as legally permissible, especially in the areas where law prohibits gambling because while a game of skill is out of the legal purview of gambling, a game of chance isn’t. Anyone familiar with the nuances of the game will surely vouch for the fact that Poker indeed is a game of skill, not luck; a fact well supported by landmark judgment in New York in 2012, where the city court upheld this ...