MTT turbo strategy

Heloooooooooooooo :hello:

I occasionally play turbo games and have found that it seems you need to be very brave and lucky to win.

Entries can vary between 50 - 200+ and if u play lower stakes ($10 buyins) you get a lot of less experienced players.

Seeing all-ins with K10, 910, Ax early on seems to be the norm.

The blinds are normally 3 mins, starting chips 1500. Blinds start at 10/20.

Wondering if any of you guys have any thoughts, strategy or ideas you want to share?

You will take a chance either way I suppose, but as lots of these people go all in with `less than premium hands` is it worth waiting for premiums? You could be blinded out I know, but what do u think?

Ronaldadio

In these tournaments, because of the rapid blind escalation, you have to push your small edges hard early if you want to have any chance of getting a big finish. Doesn't mean you have to push in with garbage like J-9 sooooooted, but your big hands will get paid off.

I'm used to Stars and their 5-minute levels, and you can be a little patient for the first couple of levels - aggressive play is much more successful, generally, than tight play.

Turbo MTTs are simply Crap shoots.
Double up early, then do it again, and again.
The winner of these events is decided by luck the majority of the time.
The Blinds are so high in relation to stack sizes that luck is about all you can say got you through this thing if you take a prize home.

This is not to say that these are all bad, I find that the turbo sats
($11 rebuy) to the Sunday Million on Stars are filled with Extremely weak players. And It is consistently possible to win a seat in these.

If you are playing a Turbo MTT that is not a satellite, or in this case as small as 3 minutes, you are better off playing roulette.
Your odds are much better.

Turbo MTTs are simply Crap shoots.

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Word.
Might aswell play a slots tourney IMO. Honestly you have a little more of an edge with the Turbos, but it's really not enough to justify playing them regularly and think you can make a worthwhile profit.

I've seen 7 min blinds called turbos, which isn't bad, but down to 4 min blinds is ridiculous.

ChuckTs said:

Word.
I've seen 7 min blinds called turbos, which isn't bad, but down to 4 min blinds is ridiculous.

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So I guess you wouldnt enter the turbos at vcpoker where they go up every minute Chuck???????

KerouacsDog said:

So I guess you wouldnt enter the turbos at vcpoker where they go up every minute Chuck???????

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Every minute?
HOLY SHIT!

You need to pass the blinds immediately. Then Catch 2 Hardcore Hands before the blinds hit you again. or you are done.

I'd say no.

I think these are good for having fun, but only if you don't mind losing the buy in. It's all about luck, my strategy is to go all in in the very first hand, regardless what is it. I had so many bad folds - where I'd win if I call, so I do this. If I double or triple up, fine, and wait for some better quality hands. If I lose, that was it! TURRRRBO.

bolcs5 said:

I think these are good for having fun, but only if you don't mind losing the buy in. It's all about luck, my strategy is to go all in in the very first hand, regardless what is it. I had so many bad folds - where I'd win if I call, so I do this. If I double or triple up, fine, and wait for some better quality hands. If I lose, that was it! TURRRRBO.

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If you transferred $1 to all the beggers that asked for it on these poker sites, you would get the same EV out of playing the turbo.
That and you'd make some kid happy.

I think in turo games you have to get alot of chips early in the game. If you dont youll find that in order to call youll end up having to go all in just to call.

Might as well play the lotto

There used to be a strategy which worked (you could just about squeeze a 40% ITM, believe it or not), but that was only on sites with large number of entries, no-antes, no blind plateau, relatively random seat movements, no time bank reductions, re-chargeable banks, and almost most importantly a certain type of button movement (ie if player gets knocked out in blinds, then button always still moves forward)

It was called 'stalling' lol

And I dont just mean any old stalling, I mean very calculated stalling in relation to table number, seat position, surrounding stack size, no. of players left, blind level etc etc.

You can not do this on any sites anymore, because the criteria above no longer exists.

My advice, only play these purely for fun.

Welly

You must not ever play the Turbo tourneys/satellites at poker stars - stalling is still quite the effective strategy there at the end if you know what you're doing.

But, yeah, in these things it's amazing how many people are down to 1 or 2 BB (if that) at the end - the 40 FPP/rebuy/add-on satellite was 20K/40K at the end, and only 2 players had more than 2BB. Alas, I took the consolation prize (8 seats got 4000 FPP if they unregistered from the main EPT qualifier - I took 11th...let me enjoy my 240 FPPs, bleh!) this morning