Turbo Strategy

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In your opinion, what is the best strategy to win a turbo tournament ?
 
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A general question gets a general response - tight early and very aggressive late, particularly 4 and 5-handed.
 
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Oh - thought it said SnG ... my bad.

Still tight early, but know your inflection points (ie when you need to start shipping your stack). Most players wait too long.
 
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Play aggressive, and get lucky...extremely vague question


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Tight/early is counterproductive in turbos. You need to build a stack ASAP and you can see a lot of cheap flops with speculative hands early on. This also gives you the added advantage of establishing a loose image that will get you paid off in the middle-to-late stages of the tournament. Tight/early not only gives you little chance of building a big stack but gives you a nitty image that few will be willing to pay off later on.
 
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tight in beginning and be prepared to call all ins on flop and as tourney progresses open up a little bit to steal more....but these turbos have a lot of luck that comes with it... they can be beat you just will have to win races
 
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Being aggressive in late position giving 3bet pre flop with strong hands, play more in position, taking advantage of spots in position, attacking first and leaving the responsibility to call for the villain
 
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Only aggressive playing, and when you make more chips than you should be careful and play only the strong hands because is more important to save your chips than to lose on some stupid cards. However aggressive play I think will help you to make more chips and to win some good prize money on that tournaments. Good luck.
 
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Thank All for the Responses, I'm scared just be tempted to call (THE all in) all the time
 
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play aggressively grow the stack and not play every hand
 
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need to be more willing to be aggressive early on in the tournament than in regular deep-stacked mtts. of course you want to be aggressive to begin with but gathering chips early helps to take advantage of tighter opponents later in the tournament.
 
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need to be more willing to be aggressive early on in the tournament than in regular deep-stacked mtts. of course you want to be aggressive to begin with but gathering chips early helps to take advantage of tighter opponents later in the tournament.

I do not think that playing aggressive is very lucrative, sometimes it's because I do not know how to play, whatever!
 
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Tighter than you think or would want and more aggressive than you would think or want.
 
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Well I dont really like playing a turbo tournament but I think a good strategy is too get your opponents to splash at pots and make them pay extra when you got it.
 
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I only learnt how to play normal MTTs(10 min blinds). Nowadays I am trying my hand at turbos due to lack of time and from my experience so far I have to agree with Mr Sandbag. You have to accumulate chips and do it fast. People are gonna bust left and right and fast. Get involved with speculative hands if you can see cheap flops. Not only are the blind levels faster, the blind increase is bigger than regular MTTs in the later levels. Gotta take every good opportunity to win chips or you'll fall behind.
 
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I often change my tactic in a mtt, sometimes i play really aggressive whole tourney and it gives me a lot of chips but most of the time it lives me out of the money, sometimes i play almost nit, most of my cashes were that way but i wouldn't suggest it for turbo tourneys, imo best for the tourney is to play aggressive but try to make less mistakes post flop (part i need to improve)....
 
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I often change my tactic in a mtt, sometimes i play really aggressive whole tourney and it gives me a lot of chips but most of the time it lives me out of the money, sometimes i play almost nit, most of my cashes were that way but i wouldn't suggest it for turbo tourneys, imo best for the tourney is to play aggressive but try to make less mistakes post flop (part i need to improve)....

I share the same mistake you, my post-flop is a bit misleading regarding my intention!
 
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In turbo tournaments, you will have less blinds than in a normal tournament, so there will be a point in which you will have to wait for a decent hand and go all in, because you will have a great fold equity. I say around 20 blinds you should do that. The thing is that in turbo tournaments there is more variance than in normal tournaments, so you depend more on luck than in other tournaments, but play tight very tight when you have a healthy stack, I say around 50-60 blinds or more
 
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In turbo tournaments, you will have less blinds than in a normal tournament, so there will be a point in which you will have to wait for a decent hand and go all in, because you will have a great fold equity. I say around 20 blinds you should do that. The thing is that in turbo tournaments there is more variance than in normal tournaments, so you depend more on luck than in other tournaments, but play tight very tight when you have a healthy stack, I say around 50-60 blinds or more

I just do not agree on the part where you talk about luck, well, there are poker greats that are very profitable in the turbo mode, there skills, right? So where is the luck?
 
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I share the same mistake you, my post-flop is a bit misleading regarding my intention!

I have a problem of letting it go, for example if i lead the action before the flop, i almost always fire c bet, even a second barrel, i lost lot of chips that way, lately when ever i miss the flop i think of what i just said, look at the flop, look at the caller and think twice before c bet, but i still fire most of the time hoping to fold...
 
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I have a problem of letting it go, for example if i lead the action before the flop, i almost always fire c bet, even a second barrel, i lost lot of chips that way, lately when ever i miss the flop i think of what i just said, look at the flop, look at the caller and think twice before c bet, but i still fire most of the time hoping to fold...

You put into words everything that happens to me, is simply the same thing!
 
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I just do not agree on the part where you talk about luck, well, there are poker greats that are very profitable in the turbo mode, there skills, right? So where is the luck?

There is skill, but the faster a tournament is, the more luck is a factor in that single instance. In the long run, a solid turbo tourney player will probably be profitable, but he'd better be prepared for huge, long downswings as well.
 
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There is skill, but the faster a tournament is, the more luck is a factor in that single instance. In the long run, a solid turbo tourney player will probably be profitable, but he'd better be prepared for huge, long downswings as well.

Yes, i agree, more because there are many professional players who won and earn their living in the turbo, being who needs luck?
 
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Today after a while I realized, is more profitable to play aggressive all time!

Correct - the other guy is confused by his insinuation that tight and aggressive are at opposite ends of the spectrum.
 
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