Hyper Turbo Strategy (Online)

I started playing hyper turbos 3 days ago with a $300 bankroll. These Hyper Turbos have a 500 starting stack with 10/20 blinds, and increase every 3 minutes to 25/50, 40/80, 60/120, 100/200 with 20 ante, ect.

I started out playing $15+1.05, and lost half my bankroll in the first hour playing 4 tables at once. I changed up my strategy and got my bankroll up to $500. I then started playing $30+2.1 and increased to as high as $700. I am now sitting at $593.


Here are a few adjustments I made that I believe started a more winning strategy:


1) I went down to 1 table at a time. Most decisions are pretty easy, but for me I found I made a lot more crisp decisions when I wasnt frantically clicking.


2) I increased my all-in shove range when after the first round of blinds to KingX. 96% of the hands I enter with a shove. The only times I do not is if both my opponent and myself have 12 BBs or more, or if I have Aces or Kings and I am trying to get someone to call.


3) I take serious advantage of the bubble, shoving QX or better 3-handed in almost every situation. 70-80% of the time I get the blinds and can build my stack. The 20-30% I get called I am a 30-40% chance to win.


Let me know what you guys think about this strategy and if there is anything you see wrong with it. I am playing on a very small sample size for results.

Why did you choose Hyper Turbo tournaments? I think in them very much depends on luck, these tournaments are very dispersion. You must have strong nerves)

Fair play to you, but you need to realize that the variance in these games is extremely high. In otherwords you are playing way to high for your bankroll.

Personally for these games, a conservative strategy would be 100 buyin's. A lot of people will tell you that it should be even higher.

Vorem said:

Why did you choose Hyper Turbo tournaments? I think in them very much depends on luck, these tournaments are very dispersion. You must have strong nerves)

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I believe in a single tournament it depends on luck, but a strategy implemented will profit long term. I would say I am typically 40-45% to win whenever my all in gets called, but I am winning a lot of blinds, especially in the 40/80 and 60/120 rounds. The average stack of 500-600 chips only has 4-5 big blinds, and I am scooping up 1.5 BB for every all in that doesnt get called.


I like applying pressure to my opponents, and new players usually fold a lot just to try and make the money, which gives me a ton of folding equity everytime I shove.

Vorem said:

Why did you choose Hyper Turbo tournaments? I think in them very much depends on luck, these tournaments are very dispersion. You must have strong nerves)

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tenbob said:

Fair play to you, but you need to realize that the variance in these games is extremely high. In otherwords you are playing way to high for your bankroll.

Personally for these games, a conservative strategy would be 100 buyin's. A lot of people will tell you that it should be even higher.

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Interesting, this is the kind of advice I was looking for. So I guess I could be running very hot right now. Since I posted this, my bankroll has risen to $803. I have played with a lot of the same players and have notated a lot of them.


I may move down to an $8 tournament if I get below $700.


The most consecutive tournaments I have lost has only been 9-10 in a row, and I have gone on a similar cash streak. I just like the $30 tournaments because there are so many people that fold preflop when they shouldnt because they are nervous of getting knocked out.

These are an icm test, think you need make a model and then adjust your play as you get stats on regs. The variance should be pretty high on these and the achievable rois should be relatively low. Another thing I like to do, is find the best reg and model their ranges in an icm calculator and put what hands you should play in their notes...for example if you know they call less than 25% in bb you can shove any 2 cards in the sb with 10bbs.

TeUnit said:

These are an icm test, think you need make a model and then adjust your play as you get stats on regs. The variance should be pretty high on these and the achievable rois should be relatively low. Another thing I like to do, is find the best reg and model their ranges in an icm calculator and put what hands you should play in their notes...for example if you know they call less than 25% in bb you can shove any 2 cards in the sb with 10bbs.

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Thank you, I have been watch videos on icm for the past few hours, it makes a lot of sense

*Update*

The swings are real. My bankroll went from $1,100 to now $860. I believe I have made a few misteps, but have mostly run into some bad luck against other players who have made poor plays. I am slowing down a bit, playing $5 rebuy turbos so I make sure I dont tilt my money away