Turbo tourneys

[madjek]

I'm sure this has been brought up before, but I didn't see it so thought I'd ask how everyone how they approach turbo's. The live tourneys near me are structured kinda like a turbo, where after first hour, almost everyone has around 10 blinds or less. Second hour is full of allins, until field separates into decent stacks trying to maintain by bullying those with just enough to hang on to money, small stacks just waiting for a spot to push, and those with just enough to hang on to money (who fold almost every hand and push with big hands in position). I don't really like turbo's but I assume works out about the same with online tourneys. Just seems like it comes down to luck to quickly, is there a way to play these that works best?

[Poker Orifice]

Arnold Snyder writes some Tournament books relating to 'fast-structured' tournaments, typically your lower buyin 'live' tourneys.
I think we need to really take advantage of position (prior to the blinds being so huge that everyone is short). Be willing to play more hands like QTo, J9s in position, taking them down postflop. It's also very important to look for good resteal spots while we're still sitting on stack size of like 14-25bb's, not being afraid to put the pile in the middle when we figure to have fold equity or are likely ahead of villain's range.
Need to have a stack so that you can withstand a hit in later level play.... ie. you're on 10bigs.. get KK... and A6o hits the Ace & it's game over for ya (because it was also mathematically correct for them to either get it in or make the call, etc.).

Working on your shove/fold game is imperative! (you'll often see good SNG players who do well in Turbo MTT's, due to their extensive experience with shove/fold game).

[Assistanc3]

reply to PO post

the Carbon Poker $3 All-In or Fold trny is good practice of shipping it with your not so normal shoving hands. Lets you open up late position, if you don't your just gonna fall behind and blind out.

main topic: Turbo tourneys
Looking for players in regular tournaments who are passive on blinds is generally the safest way to add to your stack. I've seen some players who fold to min raise pre-flop to a loose cannon and then my bells go off DING DING, jackpot. Blind Stealing is +EV

Sometimes you wont have enough time just by looking for blind steals, so what you can do is look at coordinated boards and how players play them from early position. This can help you guide your assessments for blind steals.