[xmanpike]

Modest as I am, I believe I am somewhat of a genius when it comes to turbo sitngos. Always switching gears at the correct moments. The problem most people have in these is they feel that they have to play loose, which you do, but only later in the tourney when the blinds are high, nouse buying blinds at 10/20 with 1500 in chps, wait until they are bigger. Position is also key, dont be buying blinds from UTG unless you have a real hand, too many people limp or make small raises from under the gun with mediocre hands and then someone catches behind them and puts allin. Play super tight for the first few rounds and then losoen it up when it matters, you will find you will succeed much more often.

xmanpike

[play2win]

try to play tight and aggressive at the beginning then
change gear when the blinds are really high that mean's u can steal blinds from the short stack

[zoobomb]

Turbo games increase luck's role in the game and decrease skill's. Yes it is a good idea to play quite tight early on as the chance is better that someone will call you even if you have sat out teh last few hands. Try to take note who stays rather tight once the binds get to a nice reasonable level and then pick on him. Prime position on the player your going to pick on is directly to his right or one seat over so pay closest attention to the two people to your left. Once you have identified your weak//tight player Raise just abouve his comfort level when he is on big blind. Tight players hate being cheated out of all their big blind bets so you may even send him on tilt if your lucksome.

[acesfulkings]

i do pretty good at turbo too..but i save my chips for the blinds and fold alot...if you are making money then your system works well too..

[Catcherblck]

I like the turbo tournaments as well. Switchin' gears is my style of play. U just never know what i've got,.or what im doin' lol./// I'd suggest sprinting here play aggresive first couple rounds then tight at the end where player's iwll start to panic cause they are losin' there stacks to the blinds

[Ra2005]

turbo is great but i guess its only cuz im generally a more aggressive player ..used to trying to steal blinds and such

[mythicshog]

I don't care for turbo tournaments too much. The only reason i end up playing them sometimes is only because on CD and noble poker, they're $5 6 handed sng's are only turbo ones(which really pisses me off!), or if the $2 or $10 6 handed ones are just not filling up because the turbos always fill up faster than the regular ones, and i don't think that's right. If you're gonna play poker you should invest the amount of time that playing good poker takes.

[HughHefner]

I dissagree completly with the notion that turbo blinds take less 'skill' or arent 'real poker'

Perhaps you mean to say, if you play tight you wont do as well, then again if you are the tightest player in the world, the only poker that would be 'real' and take 'skill' is no blinds at all!

What I mean to say is I think turbo sit and go games take skill, because you need to know how to gain control over a table (easly done on the noblepoker 6 player turbos).

As previously stated, smart to stay tight at first and losen up later...although I find gambling really hard with 100 out of your 1000 chips tends to pay off early, and if it doesnt its very easy to come back from the 100 chip loss, so i think its worthwhile.

[nicka123]

turbos are good, i suggest playing it cool to start and once the blinds increase then turn it into the 2nd gear...i have a lot of success in those tournaments...


curious...is anyone trying the million dollar challenge?

[napcuz]

I like the fast paced turbo tournaments. I still prefer normal. To win you have got to build your stack very quick. Everyone seems to think the same thing, and the play seems to be alot looser. I like to play solid early because I usually can pick up extra chips from all the loose players. Like many of you guys or gals have said, you must change your game sometime during the course of the game to be successful. I remember a tournament once that there was around 60 people entered and I decided to play super tight. I probably only played a half dozen hands besides the bb until it was down to the last 5. I was the low stack but not to the point where the blinds were hurting me but it was getting close. I changed gears and started to play very aggressive. It got down to 3 players and I still remained very aggressive when 1 of the players started chatting to me, telling me he could'nt beleive how I was dominating them. I don't talk at the tables at all so I did'nt reply. After I won the tournament the 2nd place finisher told me that was the best he had ever seen anyone play because I was so unpredictable. I did respond to say thank you very much. Problem is I cant seem to duplicate my play that day.