Ever wonder where and when bounty tournaments or "knock out tournaments" as they're called today, got its start?

Back when I was still playing at PacificPoker.com around 2-3 years ago, they had come up with an idea for a tournament where a few professional poker players would enter and if you knocked them out, you won a t-shirt that said "I knocked out_______ (<----Enter professional poker players name here) at a Pacific Poker tournament." At the time I thought it was a great concept and many others thought so too as the tournaments were a big hit.

However, I left Pacific Poker for another site shortly after so I don't know whatever became of that tournament or if Pacific Poker decided to expand on that idea. However, it seems like Full Tilt Poker has taken advantage of what was once Pacific Poker's idea and has expanded it into what we have come to know it as today, "Knockout" tournaments. "Knockout" tournaments are tournaments where players can collect another player’s bounty (a portion of their buy-in) simply by knocking them out of the tournament.

So there you have it, a fun but useless fact about where the idea of knockout tournaments got its start.