1.4k? thats awesome man! well done!

I’ve tried the 180 mans and a seem to do real bad at them, any advice?

MovieFX said
The Bounty Builders tournaments are stars are about the same as the “big” tourneys. They take 11-14 hours I believe, depending on field size. Bounty builders are interesting in that they start a little faster I beliebe (8min levels?), slow to 10min and then again to 12 when quite deep. The early stages are pretty wild and you always have a lot less fold equity, so you’ll have to adjust play a little, but that also makes it pretty easy to get paid off with AA, KK, AK early on. That said, I’d still play much like any tournament and try not to get greedy and force the action. I think for the same reason people make more mistakes though.

So, I find these tournaments have increased variance in the play, they may actually decrease variance in the bank roll if you can win a few bounties along the way. You don’t have to make the money to break even. 

On Saturdays the Bounty Builders are all “saturday specials” which increase the bounty portion to 75% of the buy in so you only need 2-3 bounties to break-even and larger bounties throughout. There will be less money at that top, but still a big score since the fields can be quite large.

I’m not making any recommendations here. Just pointing out there are some differences between progressive bounty tournaments and freeze-outs.

Pokerstars also has a large field turbo progressive KO which takes about half the time (~6.5 hours?), if you are in to turbos.

You can always look at completed tournaments to see how long they took at various field sizes and structures. Since they are all different this is the only way I know of to get an idea of how long a tourney will take before registering.

so tighten up early on and adjust as the tournament progresses? Ok thanks, I think that was my problem i took marginal spots early on to try and get the small bounties. I will adjust accordingly. Thanks for your help