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Do you adjust correctly in PKO/bounty tournaments or just click call?

Is this how you're meant to adjust in pko spots or do people just click call because of the bounty

I had one yesterday in a small buyin pko and got stuck on it.

Bb jammed over my open, i had aqo, about 22bb effective, and his bounty was $25 which was more than the buyin (early enough that it mattered).

The lobby/info bit said

total bounty on player: $25
50% paid immediately on knockout
50% added to your bounty

So i sat there trying to work out if this is just a snap because of the dead bounty money, or if i'm meant to still be pretty tight when it's a reshove and not a covered spot.

I called and lost, not the point really.

Does anyone do the math properly in game for these or just use a rough rule

I don't trust my pko calling ranges at all here, ONE spot like this and i think i'm off by a lot

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Wait, $25 bounty on a small buyin? What was the buyin

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Are you covering the BB here? That changes how much of the bounty is worth counting. If you knock him out, $12.50 is paid right away.

The other $12.50 gets added to your bounty, so it isn’t cash you can use to call this shove. At 22bb I wouldn’t call AQo just because the bounty looks bigger than the buy-in. I’d want to know how wide he’s reshoving, since AQo is in rough shape against AK and the pairs. If he’s jamming wider than that, the call looks different, but if it’s a pretty tight reshove, the $12.50 alone may not be enough to get me there.

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At small buy-ins, the BB can be jamming pretty wide, not just a tight reshove. I’ve seen plenty rip any ace or two broadways because that bounty looks like easy money.

AQo does well against that sort of range, if that’s what he’s shoving.

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Not covering, he had me

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the bounty adds value to the call, but aqo isn't an automatic snap with 22bb effective. position, reshove range, and how much of the bounty you actually collect all matter. i'd use a pko calculator to check these spots rather than calling based on the bounty alone.

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