Each week here on Calvin Ayre, we look at poker in the popular form of the written word. Books have always been important to poker players, with volumes such as Doyle Brunson’s Super System paving the way for thousands of different strategy-based books that are designed to help poker players improve.

At the tail-end of 2019, we wrote about the newly-released Poker Satellite Strategy which was put together by legendary Irish poker professional Dara O’Kearney and respected poker author Barry Carter. This week, the two men released their latest tome, which promises to help players become better at playing PKO (Progressive Knockout) or Bounty tournaments.

The release of PKO Poker Strategy is timely to say the least. Not only are PKO or Bounty events getting to be more and more popular, but half the world seems to be playing online given the restrictions on live poker that have affected over 95% of the world’s poker events.

While PKO and Bounty events have grown in popularity, just like with poker satellites, there aren’t too many professionals who talk up their skill in the formats. That’s where PKO Poker Strategy comes in. The strategy is markedly different to a regular MTT (multi-table tournament), and the book does a very good job in explaining how to adjust your ranges to PKO events or to fire for a bounty. There are other factors at play in PKO or Bounty events, of course. The size of an opponent’s bounty on their head needs to dictate a change in whether you’re prepared to call, but not only that.