Optimal Strategy for Turbos? (5 minute levels)

Whats a good approach for this types of MTTS?

what should be the range of hand we should be playing early?

and whats a good % of hands to be playing to not get blinded out?

I mainly wanna do good on really low buy in turbos, like $1-5

I am a master of these little bitches now.




basically, the core of ur turbo sng game should be like this:


until blinds start getting substantial at all(probably about 75/150 blinds) you should be the tightest mofo ever. fold AQ ep, fold AQ on the button to any raise, .. in lower buyin turbos I will fold KK to preflop allins quite regularly(i'll only call if the pot is ridiculously big or im positive they are weak), during the earliest blind levels. the thing is, you simply don't want to lose. the chips aren't nearly as important as they will be in 15-20 min. I will however try to limp pairs with good odds or maybe even multiway play a suited connector from position - but i am very very careful with them.
also I play my AA/KK hard and fast, like really really hard and fast

thats what she said


from that point i basically just sit there unless i get so small i need to steal, like 5 or 6 bb(where i get to the point that if the blinds go up or i lose another BB, i might not have enough chips for FE)
then i pick spots, and do it.

I play like this until I have the chip lead or I am in the top 3.



gg turbo sngs


obv there is more but that is the basics in a nutshell

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im not banning you because your post was disagreeing with me

im banning you because your post annoyed me enough to read your last 50 posts, and all of them are as bad as this one

it's only for a week - but please learn how to make more intelligent posts or something

uhh i think lower stakes sngs u definitely have a edge playin looser preflop b/c all of the players suck at postflop play

if u play 24 table style then feel free to play extra tight

no way

there are way too many random idiots (the majority of the players)

and there is no way you can regularly read these people's hands.



an edge 9 handed at small blinds is worth dick when none of the players have a clue how to play when the blinds get big

/agreewithtravis100%

Listen to da nigga !

(note this is for mtts not sngs)
in turbo MTT's i like to try and get as many decent hands in as i can, early on, this will help me double up and hopefully limit variance later on. I can make thinner AI calls when people start to run out of blinds, and not risk my tourny life. Also in many of the lower limit tournys, the fish are going to be playing 50% of their hands, watch closely for the first 10 hands or more, then start picking them off, their entire stack will be either 5X or gone within 2 blind increases. you need to get at it while you can. if they are the only player in the hand, isolate them, and take them down. Having a good cash background really helps in that case..
if your not fortunate enough to get any hands, sometimes you can mix it up like travis said, all though i dont do it very often.
limping from the botton or sb is getting more and more profitable, but its also a gamble, because more often people are starting to repop light form the blinds, they are also starting to 3bet very light if the button,CU,or sb raises. so thats a gamble, i like to base that on the player to my left. its a great spot to have a hand and his very very profitable, just judge your player, if he seems like the type that will not get off a hand if he raises your limp, then limp, pray he raises, rejam. if he seems smarter, and might check or 3bet light, then raise the spot.
i know i didnt write this out very well, but i hope it helps..
turbos mtt's are very high varience, i have only won 1 turbo tourny, and i ran sick sick sick hot, and even then it wasnt easy.

travis i do agree that u should play tight but foldin KK pf bad, so is foldin AK

TT+, AQ+ has decent value in pretty much every position, maybe fold AQ in EP if u feel nitty

and limp pp's arent that bad either

they are horrible at poker u can flop good u take their stack

im not saying i fold kk preflop more often than i end up allin with it preflop or somethin

On December 14 2007 17:02 asdf2000 wrote: im not banning you because your post was disagreeing with me im banning you because your post annoyed me enough to read your last 50 posts, and all of them are as bad as this one it's only for a week - but please learn how to make more intelligent posts or something

lmfao. . . yeah I completely agree with you asdf . . .you need to fucking strap barbed wire around your chips until you drop the aa/kk bomb. . .in which case you don't fuck around. . .if blinds are 25/50 and you raise 200 you're prolly still getting 3-4 callers avg. at least that's how I've experienced with the smaller buy in turboze. So if there's already a good amount of callers I just jam it and get ready to register for another, and yeah i don't even raise >tt anymore not worth pushing and raising gets into too much trouble, just see the flop with shit like that and play it carefully

asdf r u srs? folding KK pre in lowstakes? Tho vs very solid regular who knows you are a regular too maybe you could cause KK isnt huge favourite vs KK+ range.

KK isnt even a favourite vs a KK+ range.....

On December 15 2007 03:14 auffenpuffer wrote: asdf r u srs? folding KK pre in lowstakes? Tho vs very solid regular who knows you are a regular too maybe you could cause KK isnt huge favourite vs KK+ range.

microstakes turbos its wrong to probably fold any overpair imo

KK isnt even a favourite vs a KK+ range.....

What? No shit sherlock? OMG i must do pokerstove analysis asap to check if its true :O ty a lot your so smart!

microstakes turbos its wrong to probably fold any overpair imo

yeah... not many times folding overpair even in 27s is good.

lol i was meerly pointing out

On December 15 2007 03:14 auffenpuffer wrote: KK isnt huge favourite vs KK+ range.

"sherlock"

lol i know you were talking about that ffs. What I mean was that fucking obviously i know that KK isnt favourite vs KK+.