Headhunter Challenge™

The CardRoom.com HeadHunter Challenge™ is an exciting new tournament format in which players earn cash bounties for each opponent they eliminate or "bust" from the event. For details on the HeadHunter Challenge™ tournament format, click here.

Re-Buy HeadHunter Challenge™ Events

Ever wish you could buy back into a HeadHunter Challenge™ Event when a juicy bounty is tantalizingly short-stacked at your table? Or have you ever wished for a small bounty on your own head so that you could fly under the radar instead of wearing the big fat target that accompanies a big one? If so, then the CardRoom.com Re-Buy HeadHunter Challenge™ format is the event for you!

This tournament format incorporates re-buys and add-ons with CardRoom.com's exclusive HeadHunter Challenge™ bounty format. These tournaments are identical to standard HeadHunter Challenge™ events with the exception that members can re-buy without limitation during the first hour of the event provided that they meet the minimum re-buy requirements and they may also make a single tournament chip add-on during the first break.

Re-Buy Bounties

As with all HeadHunter Challenge™ Events, registration closes the moment the tournament begins and the first hands are dealt. At that time, the initial starting bounties are calculated as they would be in a standard HeadHunter Challenge™ Event. However, all members who subsequently re-buy or add-on during the tournament will have the base minimum bounty amount (as determined by the initial bounty calculation) added to their current bounty amount for each re-buy or add-on purchased. Thus, for those members who make an immediate re-buy upon seating and before the event starts will have the base minimum bounty amount added to their initial starting bounty amount. Since the base minimum bounty will always be less than the re-buy amount, the remainder of the re-buy amount, less the tournament fee, will be added to the direct payout prize pool, meaning that as participants re-buy and add-on, not only will there be additional bounties to be claimed, but the overall event prize pool will continue to grow as well!

If a member is reduced to zero (0) chips in any given hand, that member's current bounty is awarded to the member or members who won that hand. The losing member's bounty is then reset to $0.00. If the losing member elects to re-buy at that time, the member's new bounty amount is set as the base minimum bounty, regardless of that member's initial starting bounty amount. If the member buys back in and also immediately re-buys, then that member's new bounty will be two times (2X) the base minimum bounty.

For example, if the initial starting bounties in a Re-Buy HeadHunter Challenge™ Event ranged from $2.00 to $10.00, then the base minimum bounty would be set at $2.00. If a member's initial starting bounty was determined to be $5.00 and that member re-bought, then the member's bounty would be increased by the base minimum bounty amount, from $5.00 to $7.00. If that member was busted from the tournament and then elected to buy back in, the member's new bounty would be $2.00. In this scenario, if the full re-buy amount was $5.00 (not counting the tournament fee) then $2.00 would be assigned to the member's new bounty and $3.00 would be added to the direct payout prize pool for the event.

Extreme Headhunters Challenges™

How do you make a HeadHunter Challenge™ even more exciting? Tip the prize pool scale 100% to bounties, that's how! In an Extreme HeadHunter Challenge™, the entirety of the prize pool will be allocated to bounty assignments and there will be no prize pool payouts based upon tournament placement. Also, any player who makes it to the final table is guaranteed at minimum their buy-in back in Tournament Cash!