How to play turbo tournaments?

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Lately I've had bad results in turbo tournaments.

As the blinds change very fast, you have to take action, even with bad cards.

If you are arriving at the final table, goes so far no one had more than 10 big blinds in the stack, and becomes an all-in war everywhere.

What do you think? Which strategy to use in this kind of tournament?
 
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hi

You should learn push / fold strategy. You can find decent charts on forum. In a nutshell in modern poker there is parameters which commands your game.

Cards
Stack size
Position
Tournament phase

You need to act according to things above, you are playing in your card range which is defined by your stack size position and table action. If you are playing for UTG in early phase (deep 20+bb) you should not play under AJsuit, but when you have under 10 blind you will shove ALL IN A5s + from same position. Turbo tournaments are specific as they are requied much more math use pot odds in first place, you will need to go all in with any two cards, sometimes you wish to call with any two cards. I would consider you to start play 0.10c 360man so you can apply P/F chart, on those tournaments you will no loose a lot, so you can still practice how to play!
 
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turbo is turbo

Turbo is all about push fold
You need a good distance to get good results, variety is hard to beat here.
Get ready for suckousts and bad beats.
And it takes a lot of luck and skill to beat turbo mtt.
Best way to start is a regular mtt - it gives you better chances and understanding of mtt
But at low limits there are a lot of weak players in turbo - and mtsng is faster to get turbo then regular.
GL

learn pre flop charts, push/fold and shortstack strategy as well.
NL cap games at PS help me be in shape but sometimes it can worth lot of money :(
 
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When it comes to Turbos I will echo what everyone else has stated about learning push/fold strategy and looking at some push/fold charts to help you figure out when to be more aggressive. However, you may not follow the chart 100% of the time as there will be circumstances at the table such as payout structure, opponent stack sizes, and opponent tendencies that also influence decisions. There will be times you will find it better to push with a tighter range and also a wider range of hands. Finding these spots will come with experience.
 
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turbos tournaments are very good although there is much variance is best to hit hard and accumulate a lot of chips that is you have to play very aggressive
 
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don't forget about calling wide also and raise/calling 3bet jams wide
 
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I think it's just varinance.
Turbo format is much more variance affected plus if you play MTTs that equals a lots of variance that can affect you
 
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The most important think in a turbo tournament is to be aggresive . Do you agree?
 
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Lately I've had bad results in turbo tournaments.

As the blinds change very fast, you have to take action, even with bad cards.

If you are arriving at the final table, goes so far no one had more than 10 big blinds in the stack, and becomes an all-in war everywhere.

What do you think? Which strategy to use in this kind of tournament?
In early stage of the MTT first play tight to see how people play. Then in mid stage you must try to build your stack. And use the bubble to steal blinds. In the late phase you must play to get the final table!
 
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I like turbo games but I can not say that I have a particular strategy depends on luck and the players are at the table

if someone has a good strategic advice I'd love to write me : P but still I rely on luck: P
 
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