Lheticus
Legend
Silver Level
I'm writing this query because of a thread I just saw in General Poker (not really sure why it was in GENERAL poker and not this thread) that was discussing them and a lot of people posting in that thread seemed to like them. Me? I can't stand them. If I get in a tournament with 5 minute blind levels, I'm not running any kind of hot, and people are using their entire freaking time banks on just one hand early on--sometimes more than one person does this in a single hand? I feel like SCREAMING "Dude! It's called a TURBO tournament for a reason! Let the people who want to play poker get on with the freaking hand!" ...This, among many other reasons, is a major barrier to my acquiring poker patience. In the early levels of a Turbo Tournament, I feel intense pressure to surge ahead so that I can keep up with the blind levels. I get INCREDIBLY stressed when I get down to a level of 5-6 big blinds for my stack, and sometimes, especially when the tournament is into antes, the only thing that needs to happen for that to take place is my getting a whole lot of nothing for ten minutes. How the heck does anyone handle themselves when this sort of thing happens? Because I sure can't!