How do you play on tight tables

[Poker Orifice]

You obviously do not play enough Turbo or Super Turbo SnG's to have an experience opinion Poker Orifice. With clock management you can force people all-in by not playing and still have the same amount of chips.

Was OP's question in their post specific to 'Super Turbos'? (I'm not sure?)

Do ya figure I'm not aware of checking when to see the blinds are about to go up? (actually (imo) this is something that is of more use in a large-field satellite when many stacks are on 2-4bb's). You have a really 'odd' way of posting with assumptions Assisstanc3.. but hey.. whatever you figure will be most beneficial to OP's post I guess???

[Poker Orifice]

Hey PO, i wouldn't mind if you set me up with 1 of those shove charts.Also this will sound very stupid to the people here but it is what it is and i have no shame in my game so here it goes: what exactly is "fold equity"....i know it means that you have a good reason or value to fold a hand right ? If someone could enlighten a dumb ass like myself who doesn't know all the politicaly correct poker terminology i would appreciate it

No such thing as a 'stupid' question.

Basically, fold equity is taking into account the % of time villain will fold to our bet.
So for calculating the EV (expected value) of our bet, we're taking into account the times villain will fold.
Phrases such as > "Yah.. but you've go no fold equity there!" (this might be in reference to when someone is planning on re-raising a player allin but their stack isn't signficantly big enough to keep villain from calling (due to them being priced in).
Another situational example: In Sng's it's often suggested > "don't let yourself get blinded down, otherwise you won't have any fold equity" (if one lets their stack get too small, when they do go & shove they won't have any fold equity).

'Calculating' fold equity is a tad complicated so will just leave it there for now. (hope this helps)

[Assistanc3]

You obviously do not play enough Turbo or Super Turbo SnG's to have an experience opinion Poker Orifice.

Was OP's question in their post specific to 'Super Turbos'? (I'm not sure?)

helps to actually read their post Poker Orifice, then again since you quoted my reply and comment on something specific that you wanted to make up on your own really does show why you need to double and triple post.

Seems like the low turbos is where I find this most often......... people eventually run out of patience, but the turbos, this seems to be the strategy a lot and the blinds move quickly so before you know it, most are down to 10 or less blinds.........

[beanfacekilla]

I have found I have success more often if I play very tight early in sit n go's. Only play top few hands until 2 or 3 are eliminated, then pick some spots to try and keep my stack up and finally get a little agg. as bubble approaches. This works best when there are some loose, aggressive, and just plain stupid players on the table. My question is what do you do when, which I am finding quite often, the whole table plays this way. I've tried playing looser (if thats a word) but usually ends in me being that early player out. Trying to just stick to the plan and just do it better than others, just gets tough when there's 9 players left and we all only have 8 - 10 blinds left.

I think terminal frost said it well below. I would pick good spots in position, and play agressive and steal. But it is very rare a whole table is tight. As for turbos, I just have no idea how to play them well, so I avoid them. Not for me. Peace.

Since I've never found a sng where the whole table plays that way, this is not from experience, but sounds to me that you could open up your range, put on a ski mask and start stealing.

Yup.

[Peteyweestro]

Thanks PO for the help, as for turbo's , i like them better because the pace of the game is faster and my tiny mind gets distracted too easy

[Poker Orifice]

helps to actually read their post Poker Orifice, then again since you quoted my reply and comment on something specific that you wanted to make up on your own really does show why you need to double and triple post.

Oh ok.. tks. But I only saw 'Turbo'.. and I promise.. I have a fair bit of experience with them. I hope I do. I hope I can comment on this post. Maybe I should check to see if I have enough experience with them... to see if it's okay for me to post an opinion about it?

Hmm.. how do I know if I qualify or not? I think I've played quite a few of them?

What about super turbos... do I know much about them? I've played a few.. I've got a friend who's played a few hundred.. and another who's played over 20,000. We've discussed HH's but I should probably put in a few thousand myself first prior to attempt a response on a thread here.

I'll go get some more practise then will come back & try to post. I'll go & get an English lesson too so that I'm able to express myself clearly in 'one post' also.

[Poker Orifice]

Did you say 'practise'? I'm talkin' about 'Practise'. I mean it's just "Practise". It's just 'practise' I'm talkin' about. Practise? Yah... Practise!
(there's '2' now... hopin' it's givin' me 'practise')

[Assistanc3]

Did you say 'practise'? I'm talkin' about 'Practise'. I mean it's just "Practise". It's just 'practise' I'm talkin' about. Practise? Yah... Practise!
(there's '2' now... hopin' it's givin' me 'practise')

forget your meds?

[madjek]

Since I've never found a sng where the whole table plays that way, this is not from experience, but sounds to me that you could open up your range, put on a ski mask and start stealing.

Just played a turbo on FT ($6 buyin), blinds were 200/400 before first person got knocked out. I just stuck to being tight until down to 6, only played big hands till then, don't know if this would of worked though if not for a few good hands along the way. Think my problem is I want to be itm every time. I know that's not possible but its hard to figure which style will get you there the most, sometimes being more aggressive seems to work, then I'll go through a big losing streak, then tighten up, and that seems to be more consistent, till I lose a bunch in a row. Wish I had more time and resources to analyse.

[packer400]

I play pretty small sitngos for now (since i only redeposited a little after getting my money stolen on black friday) but i find that players play relatively tight compared to when I used to play more but it still seems like at the stakes i play around 1 dollar it is still the optimal strategy to play really tight at the beginning and once you are getting around 10bbs if you havent made moves start blind stealing etc. This is strategy has given me the most success atleast.