I'm just curious if players approach Turbo tournaments any differently than they would a standard tournament. Personally, I don't have much experience with turbines. Do you widen your playable cards or tighten up? Are you more apt to raise or try to see as many flops as possible. Any feedback would be appreciated and as always, best of luck
diadiavalik said:
Do the exact opposite. Tighten up your range in the early stages and just learn to comfortably play a stack of 7-25 big blinds.
Most of the tournament is like this unless it’s a deep stack tournament.
The chips you lose in the early stages are worth more than the chips you win, in actual real money equity. That doesn’t mean fold every hand, but it does mean you should only be getting involved with monsters for the first several rounds.
Thanks for the advice. I'll try. At an early stage of the tournament I try to see the flop for a small bet. In the middle stage, I play more calmly and play only monsters, and reaching the final table I try to adjust to opponentsrckstr2b said:
I would say, for me, it depends on the starting stack and how familiar I am with the players at the table. I usually don't change a whole lot with a starting deep stack. Now when I play the 500 chip starting stacks I like to widen my range.
Turbos are a lot more bingo-y then most normal tournaments. A lot of the times it's like hand ranges shifted up one level (early turbo plays ranges like mid stage, mid plays ranges like FT/HU, FT plays literally every card). You really have to build up the bankroll fast in the early stages, so wide ranges looking for top two pair and sets can usually win you your hands. Just one more thing I noticed from playing them is that turbos are a lot more reverse implied odds based than normal tournaments in that you really have to look at how many blinds you're losing by folding a lot more than how many you'll win by winning because most likely even in the mid stages folding after making a post flop half pot bet is generally gonna end up getting you nearly knocked out, so keep those reverse odds in mind. And one last thing, don't try to slowplay and use up the time bank as much, you want to move quicker to get as many hands in before the level jumps as possible so from a simply technical standpoint that is one thing to look out for a lot more than in a normal mtt. Hope that helps🙂
I try to avoid turbo tourneys. Seems you can become short-stacked way too quickly. Poker is more enjoyable when you have time to gather info about your opponents and project/develop a table image consistent with the strategy you're going to use. Turbos seem to force you into that "shove or fold" scenario too early.
I sometimes play Turbo tournaments but it's very aggressive to get more chips when a good card comes in, and in standard tournaments I look closely at the players and I play cautiously and try to watch as many flops as possible to get a good combination!
Turbos
I start to steal the blinds and antes with 53s,64s,75s,76s, any pocket pair,any big ace A10,AJ,AQ,AK, J10s,Q10S.
Basically you need to start stealing the blinds as much as possible as soon as antes kick in or else you will find yourself with at best 20BB trying to stay afloat.
I start to steal the blinds and antes with 53s,64s,75s,76s, any pocket pair,any big ace A10,AJ,AQ,AK, J10s,Q10S.
Basically you need to start stealing the blinds as much as possible as soon as antes kick in or else you will find yourself with at best 20BB trying to stay afloat.
Well the main difference which is of course pretty obvious is that turbos tend to have a much lower skill level and a much faster play. This means you should not be trying to make that many smart moves because you might get called with a pair on a nut draw A LOT of times. So what i think is a good strategy is having a smaller range early until the fields tend to be a bit more skilled.
Well main goal in these kinds of tourneys should be to widen up your range, and be settled at the earliest. These are different than other tourneys and most of times people tend to become short stacked if they don't proceed carefully. Blinds gonna get higher soon and you are suppose to make your stack grow faster.
My strategy is usually to play fairly tight in most positions and just try to milk a monster to double up. Stealing the blinds wide from the button and the SB is still pretty important to stop blinding out though, especially with how quickly the levels go.
Turbo tourney's just have a higher and quicker blinds raised so waiting for solid hands is essential but what each player considers a solid hand varies, medium hands to me are considered solid connectors like KQ suited even if it looses so 50/50 still pending on the floos
for Turbo SNG be very tight in early bcouse blind very small so other player can call with worst hand because its cheap to see the flop and sometime that situation can give you bad news.. so be patience until blind increase then action.. sorry for my English..
You should calibrate to turbo tournament by trying to see cheap speculative flops at the beginning and play for stacks with big hands. Raise the blinds from late position not just the button. Steal the blind as soon as the antes kick in or earlier.