PokerKing continues to experiment with poker formats: the Poker Races lobby now has a Bounty Hunter tab for a new tournament featuring bots. Here is how it works.
Bounty Hunter is a knockout tournament for 110,000 participants, with a jackpot and AI bots instead of real players.
There is no tournament prize pool, but rewards can be won in two ways:
- When your bot eliminates opponents, half of the bounty is credited to your account and half is added to the bounty on your bot’s head.
- Making two flushes earns a share of the jackpot: the higher the flush, the larger the payout.
The poker room states that, over the long run, players receive 91% back on each card purchased: 86% as bounties and 5% in jackpot payouts.
Bounty Hunter mechanics
To participate:
- Choose the price of your bot card: cards cost $1, $5, $10, $25 or $100. The price determines the payouts for eliminating opponents. The maximum payout is $1,000,000!
- Choose one of the three tournaments.
After you select a bot, its card appears with the main tournament statistics:
- Number of hands played before elimination or victory
- Number of knockouts
- Number of flushes made
- Total knockout bounties
- Jackpot winnings
- Total winnings
All tournaments have already been played. The information is hidden, but you can reveal any field or all fields at once to see the final results.
If you would like to watch your bot play, the Watch button opens a menu where you can view all its tournament hands.
The menu on the left repeats the information on the bot’s card and also tracks the top bounty wins.
