Zombie Hunter Bounty Poker Series @ BetOnline, Oct. 23 – 30

With the Halloween season almost upon us, BetOnline has decided to celebrate the occasion with the macabre Zombie Hunter Bounty Poker Series from Oct. 23 to 30. 104 ghastly events populate the schedule with guarantees amounting to more than $1.2 million, including a $250,000 Main Event. The focus is on eliminating your undead adversaries, and therefore, every tournament features PKO bounties whereby you receive a prize every time you dispatch one of your foes.

Series Format

Each day of the series, there are 13 spooky touneys to sample. They run basically around the clock, so no matter what your schedule is like, you'll find events at a convenient hour.

Zombies aren't exactly known for their creativity, and there are only two types of poker on the menu: No Limit Texas Hold'em and Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo. Every day, there are 11 NLHE events and 2 PLO/8 ones. A few 6-max and hyper tourneys do provide some variety.

Progressive Knockouts

As we've already mentioned, every MTT in this series is a PKO. What this means is that half of each buyin amount is dedicated to a bounty on that player's head with the remainder added to the prize pool.

What makes progressive knockouts different from normal knockout tournaments is that upon the elimination of any given player, only half of the bounty associated with that individual is paid out to whoever knocked the player out. The other half is transferred to the bounty on the eliminator's head.

This leads to larger and larger bounty values as the event progresses. The bounties in a PKO thus remain a strategically important amount of cash long past the point where they would have basically faded to irrelevance during a normal knockout tourney.

Bubble Resurrection

In keeping with the theme of the Zombie Hunter Bounty Poker Series, there's a way for you to revive your buyin from the dead. This only applies if you finish exactly on the bubble of a tournament. In this case, you will receive a refund of the amount you paid to enter.

Every event in the series comes with this form of bubble protection.

Daily Zombie Hunter Shootouts

Beginning on the second day of the series, Oct. 24, everyone who collected at least one bounty the previous day will be able to enter an All-in Shootout at 9:00 a.m. ET with a prize pool of $1,000 in tournament dollars up for grabs. The starting stack in this Shootout depends upon the number of bounties collected on the previous day as follows:

• 1 – 5 KOs: 1 chip
• 6 – 10 KOs: 3 chips
• 11 – 20 KOs: 5 chips
• 21+ KOs: 10 chips

Important Events

Among the 104 MTTs on offer, there are a few that stand out as being perhaps more potentially lucrative than the others. The biggest and most important events take place on the final day of the series, Oct. 30.

Event #97 is the series Main Event. It begins at 1:30 p.m. ET and costs $109 to enter. There's $250,000 in prize money to be won. If the $109 buyin dissuades you from joining, then perhaps the $22 Mini Main, Event #98, would be more your speed. It starts at the same time as the Main Event and has a $50,000 guarantee attached.

There's also a Micro Main Event that costs just $5.50 to play in for a $10,000 guarantee. It starts at 4:30 p.m. PLO fans, on the other hand, may wish to check out the $215 Omaha Main, which features Omaha Hi-Lo gameplay, comes with a $10,000 guarantee, and begins at 2:30 p.m. The Omaha Main Event is #99 on the series schedule.

Another intriguing tournament with a $215 buyin is #100 on the menu. It's called the High Roller although there are several other tournaments in the series with the same highish buyin. What distinguishes this one is its $75,000 guarantee, which is more than any other tourney besides the Main Event itself. This High Roller Event kicks off at 3:30 p.m. ET on Oct. 30.

Sign up to Play in the Zombie Hunter Series

In order to participate in the Zombie Hunter Poker Series, you must have an account at a site on the Chico Poker Network. BetOnline is the flagship site of this organization, and you can learn more about it and how to create an account in our detailed BetOnline Review.

The other rooms hosting this series, which are partners of BetOnline, are SB Poker and TigerGaming. You can access the Zombie Hunter Poker Series events from any of the three rooms.