How do you play Spin n Go Jackpot Tables

They can be so fun, but very addicting if you aren't careful. The variance is high and playing tight won't cut it. Anyone got good tips on what to do?

Do you mean sit and go?

duckeyflop17 said:

Do you mean sit and go?

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There are 'Spin n' Go' hyper turbo/3 player games available on pokerstars.

I play them cautiously. These are not much different than a roulette wheel, in my opinion.

Good luck, if you play them!

These games usually last less than 10 minutes as the starting stack is very small and blinds go up quickly. You need to loosen up your starting range (similar to the end of a tournament) and steal some blinds. If you get a premium pocket (AA,KK,AK), then try to extract as much as possible early with a big raise or push if the pot is already raised.

Any good tips?
Dont play them, unless you dont care about your money

It is a high-risk play style, you can be winning everything at all times and in a move lose everything. I'm not a fan, I prefer big tournaments to accumulate cash.

These are even more like Bingo than your average DonkFest Freeroll.

Steer well clear unless you have high disposable income.

i feel shoving properly very crucial and is essential to this style of play. The Strong hands usually get chopped by the weaker hands. Its starting to make more sense to rather just limp and let my opponent try and shove with his shorter stack when i hit top pair and they hit 2nd pair. When i find my momentum to be aggressive, i do it enough until I can act weak on strong hand, and they usually do bite after they see me check.

It's only 3 handed so you can play almost any starting range except for the truly trash hands.
Any Ace you play, and it's 3 handed so even hitting second/bottom pair you still have a high chance of having the best hand. Don't be afraid to shove. The variance is high and these games should be avoided like the plague but if you really wanna play it, just remember you're 3 handed. People who play so tightly still play like its a 6max or 9max game.

It's so unlikely that you'd ahve to worry about sets or even 2 pair etc in these games. Goodluck.

pretty much impossible to answer your question op, but a few tips i guess might be...


1. try to play a high variance style and get games over as quickly as possible when it's only the 2x multiplyer. You will notice players are a bit crazy in these games as there is no prize pool on the line, so bluff catch more, and thin value bet way more.

2. Conversely, try to make more lower variance moves in the higher multiplyer games as these games are the ones that you make your money in, you basically cannot beat the 2x games for profit, but if you win enough higher 4x 6x and higher ones you can make plenty of money in these games.

in the higher games you will notice alot of players will tend to tighten up alot more, so play much looser, bluff catch less and value bet thin less.

3. Don't listen to anyone above who are saying these are donkfests and roulette wheels, they have no idea what they are talking about to put it as nicely as i possibly can...

It seems like everyone is hating on spin n go's while in my opinion they are the best to play since on the lower buyin games especially the 1$ buyin spin n go's all the players are donks, either playing to tight or to lose and on the higher buying games like the 15$ spin n go's the rake is very low only 5c on the dollar

ps. You hit the higher payout more often than you think

chipportal said:

ps. You hit the higher payout more often than you think

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no.. you don't. Otherwise everyone would be doing it. spin and go's are not poker.

lukeellul92 said:

no.. you don't. Otherwise everyone would be doing it. SPin and go's are not poker.

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For your first statement, it depends what people think. If people think they hit the high payouts exactly as often as the frequency chart says, then they hit the high payouts exactly as often as they think, in the long run.

But perhaps chipportal is saying people underestimate the probability of getting a high payout according to the chart and/or in his experience, he has been lucky and got some good high payouts.

And I would like to know your definition of what's poker then. Blind man's bluff is a type of poker. So are all-in or fold tournaments. Spin & go's are just typical 3-max sit & go's with a hyper-turbo format. The only difference is the prize pool is randomly determined based on a probability chart, but once the game has started, it's poker through and through.

You certainly are free to make a legitimate argument that the rake in spin & go's can't be beaten, but a poker pro just won a prop bet and a whole bunch more that he could beat $30 spin & go's over a 5k games sample size. You are also free to say that spin & go's are high variance, which is something that most if not everyone agrees. But if high variance automatically equals losses, then how did Daniel Coleman make $1million in 9 months playing only hyper-turbos?

I don't know what all the fuss is about with spin & go's. No one is forcing you to play them. If you are bad at them, don't play. If you think they are stupid, guess what: don't play. But other people playing an exciting and potentially profitable form of poker has no affect on you. If you're so against unbeatable games of high variance, why don't you crusade against the lottery, roulette, craps/dice, and every other casino game or form of gambling?

Like Spin n Go Jackpot Table. You just need to get used to and adapt to the game. Any game needs attention.

i usually wait game to come to two us us than i start to play aggressive and i think it works for me

These are the 3 handed games with 10bigs? You just gotta ship any Ace or face cards imo

Wiz, I was under the impression the rake was pretty much unbeatable?

they kinda play like a hu hyper and since there is no icm in a winner take all format chip ev should be used

Less room for strategies.

Its a fast pace action, so you either win fast or lose fast.

duggs said:

Wiz, I was under the impression the rake was pretty much unbeatable?

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what does the rake actually work out at, i remember an article when they first came out at another site based on the different payouts that it was something like 7%.

As for donkfests i dont agree if you know what you are doing, its like the hyper turbos where the pros make a good living because they know what they are doing

They lowered the payouts since it first started, not sure what it is now

duggs said:

Wiz, I was under the impression the rake was pretty much unbeatable?

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that's what i thought at first, but the general style and lack of skill of a huge majority of the player pool means you can get ITM numbers of around 36-40% in some of the lower games, you really only need to beat them for around 34%-35% to beat the rake depending on rake level. So while the 2x are pretty much unbeatable, you still get enough of the 4x 6x etc games to make up for the amount of 2x games...

So the way it stands currently with the player pool full of fish, these are the most profitble sng version on stars currently, having said that they are not easy to beat as the will be high variance and you need to be able to adapt to a wide array of player types quickly.

You'll have to be properly rolled to play these, I'd say no less than 200 BI because of the high variance and varying prize pools.

No smart way to play them. If it's for fun go for it. If you actually want to make money, avoid them.

jacksonionh said:

No smart way to play them. If it's for fun go for it. If you actually want to make money, avoid them.

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I disagree, these games have so many bad players in them you can easily profit, but the variance is one of the most extreme in these.