Bounty Hunting Calculator

How the bounty adjusts your equity requirement

In a standard tournament, your break-even equity on a call is simply: Call / (Pot + Call). In a PKO, knocking someone out pays you a bounty on top of the chips, so the pot is effectively larger than it looks.

The calculator converts the villain's bounty into a chip-equivalent value and adds it to the pot before computing the break-even point. The chip-equivalent grows as the field shrinks, because bounties accumulate and represent a larger share of the prize pool per chip as the tournament progresses.

Why does field size change the bounty value?

As players are eliminated, their bounties don't disappear. Half of each bounty gets added to the knockout winner's own bounty, so the total bounty pool concentrates into fewer players as the tournament progresses. This means knocking someone out later in the tournament is worth more in real terms, because the average bounty per remaining player is larger.

The field percentage captures this effect. At 100% of the field remaining, bounties are at their starting value. At 5% remaining, bounties have accumulated significantly and are worth considerably more chip-equivalent value. You don't need to be precise; use the nearest preset. The difference between 48% and 52% is negligible. The biggest adjustments come at the extremes: very early versus very late in the field.

What counts as the pot?

Enter the chips already in the middle before you act. This includes blinds, antes, and any chips committed by other players. Do not include the amount you need to call. The call amount is entered separately so the calculator can correctly compute pot odds.