NLH HYPER TURBO TOURNAMENT/ SIT N GO OPTIMUM STRATEGY
Posted by Tam Tran
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NLH HYPER TURBO TOURNAMENT/ SIT N GO OPTIMUM STRATEGY
I'd like to say in the last few weeks i've been playing some online low stakes hyper turbo tournaments on stars and fulltilt. I've noticed that due to the super short stack chips in play (10bb starters) people tend to not have an optimum strategy preflop. I find it crucial to have a solid understanding of this type of game as it's very new in the poker world and very few strategy guides have been written so far.
Assuming that people have a solid understanding of holdem hand selection we can then start to develop an optimum strategy for these type of tournaments. Your game play will get improve and you will find more consistent results by following a few simple rules for the hyper turbo tournaments.
Ruke 1: In the early stages of the tournament push for all of your chips with any ace on the button and any pocket pair which you are first to act in an unopened pot
Rule 2: avoid slow playing any hands and don't get fancy playing any flopped monsters as the stacks are too shallow to be doing any sort of play. Bet them and don't check even if your in or out of position.
Rule 3: Don't try to make sick laydowns preflop and play your flopped top pairs hard against a single opponent.
Rule 4: avoid raising 3-2 times the big blinds (i.e small ball play) with stacks of 10 bb or less. All raises or any attempt to win pots should be shoving allin takign into considering of the previous rules.
Rule 5: Limp more often than raising as stacks are so low. For example KQ in mid or early position with 10-20 bb instead of raising.
Rule 6: Call more often with opponents that seem to be stealing with allin shoves, with hands of atleast A high in the blinds. With consideration that you have atleast or approximately 2 stacks of theirs covered.
Basically we are going to employ moving allin, calling raises or limping as to to open raising small 2-3 bb. This is because stacks of these size employ less skill wise to play tricky preflop poker. Like 5 betting with J10 suited and rather let it come down to the small edges of math over the longer periods by making the tougher 2 bet allin calls or plays . With this kept in mind and employing it to your current NLH mtt game you should get further in these hyper turbo types. One thing that also needs to kept in mind regardless of the levels and stakes this is the one of the few games where skill level isn't going to deviate as much and would most likely see an idiotic shove at the high stakes and low stakes.
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1- You could probably profitably jam much wider than just Ax, pairs. And I'm perfectly comfortable min-raising to induce shoves with the stronger side of my opening range.
2- I generally agree, but I don't think there's many spots to really slowplay when this short. Although, there are definitely times if I get to a flop, where I'll want to check to extract value on later streets from hands that will fold to a bet on the flop.
3.- Not sure sick pre-flop lay downs are in my repertoire in a hyper turbo. As far as fast playing big hands, I'm generally for it, but like I mentioned before, there are def. spots I'll check to get more value on later streets.
4.- I really disagree here. I think there are spots where min-raising to induce are much better than open jamming. But, I'm definitely not looking to min-raise as a steal and fold to a jam if my stack doesn't allow it. An easy example would be if effective stacks are 1500 at 75-150 and it folds to me on the button with AA. I would much rather min raise to induce a jam from hands that would likely fold to a shove.
5.- I disagree...esp. with the example you gave. I would much rather raise with the intention of calling certain players/stacks, shove or just open-fold a hand like KQo than limp. I think limping often will just put you in too many awkward situations and will overall be a spew. If I did decide to play a situation like this, I'd rather take the initiative, give myself a chance to win the blinds or take it down on the flop with a cbet than limp-fold or limp and open the door for someone else to jam and put me in a tough spot.
6. - I agree that your calling ranges need to be considerably wide vs. decent players. Of course, how wide I'm calling will be very player dependent and stack dependent, but overall peoples' calling ranges in these short stack situations are much, much too tight. Vs. regs, I iso EXTREMELY wide....but much of my knowledge in these situations comes from history with players and doing a lot of number crunching in Pokerstove.
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