General Strategy in Turbos?

Been having a problem with turbo SNG's single or two table, 6.50 buy in "they aren't as bad as the 3.40 ones"

I usually accumulate decent stack by the time blinds are huge and almost make final 40% of people left after SNG. However when blinds get high and people are willing to coin flip and I tend to get in trouble. For example I raise with A-K, BB shoves, I call, he flips pocket 3's and wins the hand.
I end up short stacked after this.

My question is what is the general strategy once the blinds get high, I don't want to get blinded out and I don't want to coin flip either with the maniacs in these. I try to steal blinds but it comes back to the maniacs shoving with any two cards again.

Any advice appreciated thanks

P.S sorry about bad spelling in title

I say you keep playing aggressive and make your obvious raises and you will prevail more often than the pocket 3s.

Turbos move fast late in the game, which, I think, makes it even more important to come to the latter rounds prepared (with bigger chip stacks!!). I almost feel that you should play more agressive early, play Arags or low suited connectors, limping in when you have a late position and being in a lot of hands where you can hopefully build up you chipstack to the point where you don't feel too presured late to take the some risks. As people drop and you are there sitting on your well earned chips, you can wait till you hit AK, high pokect pair, etc... till you want to make your move. Unfortunatley, people will call with things like 33, but loosing AK to 33 is just poker...

That's because he's a good player and you're not.

When the blinds get high enough, a simple raise is a terrible terrible play. The only acceptable plays at that stage are folding and shoving. You need to learn how to do that effectively or you'll always be a fish in SNGs.

Two things:

1. Read Moshman's "Sit 'n Go Strategy".
2. Download SNGWiz and learn proper push/fold strategy.

You just have to hammer it down as hard us you can in these turbo sit n' go's. Whenever you get something you have to make something happen.

That's what it is to be turbo.

Good luck.

Listen to BelgoSuisse, you should be pushing HARD w/ AK late in SNGs. You're willing to take down the blinds just to keep surviving at the least. You need to put the other players to the decision for their chips late, not vice versa.