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INCREASING YOUR CALLING RANGE PREFLOP IN BLINDS AT HYPER TURBO TOURNAMENTS

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INCREASING YOUR CALLING RANGE PREFLOP IN BLINDS AT HYPER TURBO TOURNAMENTS

In my previous post I thoroughly went through an optimal preflop strategy for hyper turbo tournaments, however i will expand more on making better and stronger decisions given you've made it fairly deep in the NLH hyper tournament and given the majority of the players are mid stacked ranged (approx 10 bb). I'm writing this to state the regularity of hand match ups seen at these type of tournaments which is less likely to occur in regular tournaments and the adjustments that one needs to make in their play.

You are going to face the situation of calling off a late position shove in the blinds much more often by this stage of the tournament as antes and blinds are insanely high. People will now be increasing their range as well as be stealing with much more marginal suited connected, small pocket pairs, picture high cards and the odd garbage hand. Your aim here is to make mathematical calls as you would find it much harder to outplay opponents given the structure isn't designed for high levels of preflop play (such as protecting your hand, restealing and so forth). Hence you've had a fair idea of your opponents style and the way they've been running of the last several rounds of hands: on a hot run by hitting their large range of hands or being slightly more patiently. The player that we are to target is the one on the hot run and playing a large range of hands. We aim to call off these players only when they seem to be stealing.

Almost any A high must be considered and is recommended as you would technically be a favorite a majority of the time and any two cards over 10 high would roughly be a coin flip most of the time and any two cards over J high is considered to be a favorite and recommended to be called as it would be a similar matchup like the A high. This is because about 1/3 to 1/4 of the time these calls that you make will be bluff catchers which will make you about a 66-75% or so favorite. On the down side your opponent could also be making a shove with a similar strength calling range as it would technically leave either players crushed with similar match ups like A4 vs A7 or KJ vs J10. This is the most likely situation to occur when calling off, therefore stack sizes should be taken into consideration. If you and your opponent have fairly similar sizes around 15 bb it's best to decrease your range and call them off with slightly stronger ranges, like A7+ and if your covered by opponent any hands within the range mentioned previously should be done. This is because the psychological understanding that your opponent believes that they can start stealing pots with wider ranges as they have you covered comes into play. They also know that they wouldn't be knocked out and would believe that it be easier to steal your blinds as you are attempting to survive. A mention also needs to be added for small pocket pairs like 22-66 as all hands like this must be called regardless of stack sizes and the situation would almost always be a small edge favorite and the remaining pocket pairs are no brainers.

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