Turbo tourneys

I have ask about freeroll strategies, but I play a lot of turbo pts tourneys. With the blinds going up so quick does anyone have any solid stragegies for turbo tourneys?

I have always said that picking your hands wisely in the beginning is crucial and when playing turbos it should be written in stone alot of people like to play the turbos because alot of allin donks love them as well i play them ocasionally and my best advice would be to play extremely tight until the time that you can afford to lose the chips if you notice alot more money flies around the table in turbos so any hand your in is potentialy a big one

I dont like to play this kind of tourney, with the blinds growing up so quickly u dont have time to make a read against anyone. In my opinion the best thing to do in the beggining of the tourney is just play super tight before the flop and agreessive after the flop when u have at least top pair with a good kicker, another strategy that i try to employ when i play this kind of tourneys is going all-in with hand like AJs,99,TT,AQs; cause im sure that the pressure is so huge with the blinds growing up so quickly that some lunatic will call your bet with hands like A9off,A8off,KQoff...and against them u are a big favorite.

I have found that in these turbos, that super tight aggressive is the way to play, but do you still avoid the all ins, as you would in a reguliar MTT tourney? I have seem to have a curse calling preflop allins even when I have AA in the hole. Yes I call the all in but it just don't seem like the odds are in my favor, although mathmatically they are in my favor.

id say play tight in the beginning because there are alot of donks that playi n them cuz they just go all in first hand..BUT at the same time if u get a top ten hand that u cant fold then play it. it works for me..

In turbo, there is no strategy because in the first few hands, people donk each other with garbage because they have nothing better to do with their time.

Then... you'll eventually be forced into a coin flip multiple times before the money. As Phil Hellmuth says, these are bad situations to be in, and he is rarely all in.

Turbo gives bad players an edge over skilled player. That's a fact

Well I have tightened up my game. I mean it hard to get an 8 penny nail in the crack now. But it has paid off I took first in a sat today and the advice I have gotten has been pretty solid.

I like that people donk each other. I sit out basically for the first two blinds levels. Then I get my game on the blinds are high enough to push out the crap players and with work you can get rid of the lucky ones an win!!

I agree with playing tight in the beginning, but if I'm dealt a med. pp or AK/AQ I will try my hardest to double up. I realize that at the beginning of these tourneys ppl. feel the need to double up, so they will pay you off with Ace rag.

Turbo tournies seem like a crap shoot to me. You basically have to win a good bit of all ins to have any shot. Its probably best to stay out of the madness in the very beginning.

I hate playing in these tourny's. I have bad luck anyway and these turbos just multiply it by ten. lol

These are tough tourneys. I agree early on pick your hands wisely. Avoid coin flips and only go all in when you know you have it. Once you double up early on in a turbo then you can relax a bit but it also allows you to use your chips to your advantage. I stil lwould be cautious with your coin flips because you will get a lot of players claling you with marginal hands because they feel they are shortstacked and will be out soon. This could back fire on you and you could see your stack dwindle due to getting sucked out on by marginal hands in a coin flip situation (i.e A Kos vs 78s). So I just usually play my game and play tight and then when I get past the bubble I still play that way until I get down to an M of 5 and then its all in every decent hand I get. Good luck at the tables. These are tough tourneys and its sometimes seems luck comes in to play more in these than in regualr tournies.

I don't mind taking coin flips and bouncing out early. Playing super loose early on gives you the opportunity to build a huge chipstack.

In my opinion play super loose at the beginning of a turbo tourney is not a good strategy, cause you are just giving the opportunity to some donks eliminate you with trash. I will never go all-in at the beggining of a tourney with just 50 or 55 percent of winning probability.

I think if you play scared and tight then it will be hard for anyone to play in these turbos because I have played in alot turbo sitngos on Full Tilt and seen alot of agresive players. So i believe that is the key.

I would play tight untill I get a good enough hand to go all in with.I play all in or fold untill I got enough chips to play poker or untill all the all in players are gone and real poker starts.

Tight early, use your mid or (if lucky) large stack to steal blinds when they are larger. Dont be afraid to push with a reasonable hand preflop
if there is no action, esp near the bubble.

Its easy to say "Play tight early and wait till you get good hands", but the reality of playing that way is that by the time you get good hands on average... just as many donks are going to call you with their huge stacks as before. Thats why I just try to see a lot of cheap flops and take constant shots at the pot in position after the flop.

Most of the time thats the weakness you want to exploit in these tournaments is after flop play.

honestly in these smaller turbo games you need to take chances early to get a stack or you will never survive. i just finished 14/63 waiting for premium hands and avoiding confrontations with 'gamblers' but when it came down too it i just didn't have enough chips to make a stand.

Of course early, you're looking for cheap flops with small pairs, suited Conn., Ax suited (in position) but the money is made when the blinds are higher, if your M is around 10 when the blinds are 50/100, and you play position well, IMHO you have a good chance to make the money.

even though the blinds go up fast u still have to sit back and be patient. if u try to play hands because u think the blinds are going to kill u then u will go broke. just wait then find a double up hand and go with it

I would love to play turbos against you guys wanting to play tight for the first couple rounds or until you get a premium hand. The whole point of a turbo is that the blinds increase fast, so you have to accumulate your chips fast. If you're plan is to fold any hand that isn't a top ten or premium hand in the first 15-20 hands, then push immediately when you get one.....no one is going to call you and you are only going to be the blinds richer, which you will lose in your waiting for your next premium hand to do the same thing.
Turbos promote aggressiveness, and if you play way too conservative, by the time you get your hand, either doubling up won't matter because your stack is too small, or you won't get called because other players know what you're doing.

-Absolut Hamm

Turbo tournaments make the game a little bit more random, since you could caught a series of cold cards and be forced to push with any two cards. I usually try to play more hands in the beginning of turbo tournaments, when the blind levels are low, than I do in tournaments with normal blind levels. I gamble more and try to build a big stack early, because when the blinds increase and antes start, it's easy to accumulate chips by raising and pushing against short stacks waiting for a strong hand.

Don't play too many hands, but when you do play one, play it aggressively. If you're going to raise preflop, be ready to follow with a continuation bet (depending on your read, of course). You can't afford to put in a lot of chips preflop on pots you can't win. Now, I'm not saying to bluff for every pot you're in, but if you read the other player as weak, you have to be willing to bet/raise, even if you just have a draw, low pair, or even an over to the board.

My advice on these turbo tourneys is not to play them. You can play a tight aggressive game without catching many premium hands, be sitting on the bubble and it just turns into a shove fest. Numerous coinflips for your money. Play a more stable structure, in my opinion.

The fast blind structure is intended to push the pressure factor, and it does it well. What I have found is the best strategy early is to let others express that 'panic'. Watch the table, see who is being aggressive, who is getting actual good cards but wait. Wait for the monsters, and along about the 3rd or 4th level the remaining players will have calmed down to where you can start adding your standard position plays, and somewhere around the 5th or 6th levels you need to crank up your own aggression factor.

The worst thing about turbos is nearing the bubble, at whatever level the design forces folks into Shove or Fold mode. Fear is your enemy here, and luck is your friend.

I played in two of these last night (screenie is from the first tourney,first hand). Played super tight and went out in seventh place. Second time around I lossened up a bit and was one of the five winners but here's what I don't like about the double or nothings. In the first one some person sat out entire time until 6 players remained and then started playing. The top 5 all win the same amount so it doesn't matter if you have 5000 or 50 chips if you finish in the money you all win .90. By the way that person was bubble boy. In the second I got a pretty substantial chip lead early and it seemed as if everyone else was just kinda hanging around waiting for the axe to fall. Felt like vultures on a fence.

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I happen to have a distaste of turbo freerolls, but will play any tournament I can get it. I found that you have to play loose, but look tight. This makes people question your hand, and hopefully inevitably cause more folding. Because of the blinds advancing at such a rate you have to challenge for the money on the table to survive the duration of the tournament and make the final table.