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I been playing these pretty much all in or fold, any point to trying to gring it out normally?
 
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most hyper turbos are all in or fold until you get up to a regular playing stack for the blind level.
There isn't much playing can be done with less than 10bb.
 
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this ^

you start playing more tight after the 100 people left
 
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I hate this kind of tourneys...you have to be very lucky at the beggining and then after you won some money (over 10-15 blinds) you can start playing normally. But even then there would be a lot of players who have low stacks and they will shove all in so you either call or fold , you don't have the chance to actually play the hand. And this happens throughout the duration of the whole tourney. It's basically a matter of luck.
 
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steffan makes the points I forgot to mention;
'I hate this kind of tourneys...you have to be very lucky at the beginning'
'It's basically a matter of luck'.

Some people claim there is a skill in playing hyper turbos but you can't avoid the huge reliance on luck at the beginning.
 
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hyper turbos are far from luck. There is actually quite a distinct difference between someone thinking they are gamble/luck for the most part. Variance is big, purely because of short stack play but still they require skill to beat them.

If you have a very solid short stack poker game, you will be profitable in these games. I've no doubt these are profitable either, but not sure how many people want to grind out 10c 990 man games when with a $10 deposit you could be playing 25c/50c games. I've no doubt I could grind up a roll playing these 2c games and playing the $1.00 180 man hypers afterwards. It Would take a lot of volume and time given they take a while to load; but for sure its possible.


OP; Just avoid them if I was you. It's going to be much better to just play even the 45/90man 25c games and build a roll quickly from there.
 
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I've played several of these and once 3rd left, but unfortunately it's a game where you have to go all in all the time, it's just bingo
 
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the title picked my twinkies... i just played on one. and there's bullets and fireworks all-over. not so lucky on my turns. lost my 2c :p
 
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like all poker games a combination of luck and skill although with these probably between 80-90% luck.
 
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Some people claim there is a skill in playing hyper turbos but you can't avoid the huge reliance on luck at the beginning.

hyper turbos are far from luck. There is actually quite a distinct difference between someone thinking they are gamble/luck for the most part. Variance is big, purely because of short stack play but still they require skill to beat them.

See told you some people would claim that. :rolleyes:

Seriously though Variance is big, purely because ... if your starting short stack doesn't get lucky the game is over.

Obviously to beat them normal poker skills are needed for the endgame,
(the only opportunity for specialist hyper turbo skills is in the mid game with mixed large and short stacks).
 
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variance is huge in these specifically but there's definitely some small profit to be made, however the profit you'll be making grinding 2c mttsngs is going to be minimal at best, better off depositing enough to grind at least 50c to start with
 
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Ohh , i win some tournament with 0,02 c . Have a decent win for top 5 .
But it's hard , there go just all in almost hand by hand .
Try it , it's a good tournament for fun and to build a bankroll .
 
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I been playing many times 2c hyper turbo tournaments and in the beginning it looks like more lottery then poker,everbody just going all in every hand,no different what kind of cards they have.
 
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Hmm, i never play something like that anymore,
90% off the players are donks in my opinion.
shouldn't that be the reason that you do play. Sure its frustrating when they suckout but in the long run if you play solid its easy money
 
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'It's basically a matter of luck'.

Some people claim there is a skill in playing hyper turbos but you can't avoid the huge reliance on luck at the beginning.
And that's why there's players who play these regularly and are up $400k+ in them? (did they just get real lucky over a large sample size?)
 
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Obviously to beat them normal poker skills are needed for the endgame,
(the only opportunity for specialist hyper turbo skills is in the mid game with mixed large and short stacks).
What do you mean by 'normal poker skills'?
Chemist, how do you explain the fact that there are many regs. in these, showing high profit from them? (you can check it out on sharkscope)

... Occassionally I will rail/watch some of the HSMTT on Pokerstars. I have pokerprolabs software so I can see results players have (although on Stars it is very limited as they'll often only show games played & a rating... but there are many that do show stats. still). In something like the Sunday500 there's often a couple players deep in it whose primary game is the Hypers & you'll see guys with $200k, $400k profit on there).
Did they just get extremely lucky in the long run?

OP, I agree with everything RamJam has stated here. (he does have experience in hypers btw).
I've witnessed your play a bit (in CC games) & personally I think the hypers might not be advisable for yourself unless you do some studying of shove/fold ranges, etc. etc. Honestly it seems (seemed?) to be leak in your game (one of them anyways). Not meaning to be a d1ck... just trying to give helpful advice.
 
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