EPT Barcelona debuted the Cuatro Bounty format this week and Dusk Till Dawn have trialled something similar.

Last night EPT Barcelona held their first Cuatro Bounty, an interesting hybrid of a regular bounty and a mystery bounty.
In standard KO tournaments (which are not that standard anymore) you typically win 25% of a buy-in. This makes it fun at the start but towards the bubble stage the bounties become quite irrelevant relative to the main prize pool.
In the Cuatro Bounty, each elimination is worth 100% of a buy-in, but the bounty stage does not kick in until 25% of the field remains.
This is very similar to a format Dusk Till Dawn has recently tried out, where the bounties come into play with three tables left. At three tables the bounty is worth a buy-in, at two it is worth 1.5 buy-ins and at the final table, each elimination is worth three buy-ins.

I like the format. Like a mystery bounty, the bounties only kick in when the tournament is deep, which means the average bounty is worth much more. However, unlike a mystery bounty, there is no variance with the bounty value. There is also less excitement surrounding the potential to win a mega bounty, but I think a bounty meaning you’ve broke even on the tournament is a fun proposition too.
It looks like the format was popular last night and it saw Steve O’Dwyer take it down for €163,720 and €48,000 in bounties.
Place | Player | Country | Prize | Bounties |
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1 | Steve O’Dwyer | Ireland | €163,720 | €48,000 |
2 | Byron Kaverman | United States | €107,400 | €12,000 |
3 | Santhosh Suvarna | India | €77,900 | €48,000 |
4 | David Coleman | United States | €59,100 | €12,000 |
5 | Ottomar Ladva | Estonia | €45,700 | €24,000 |
6 | Joakim Andersson | Sweden | €34,900 | €12,000 |
7 | Fabiano Kovalski | Brazil | €26,900 | €12,000 |
8 | Martin Zamani | United States | €21,500 | €0 |
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