How To Approach Turbo Sit & Go's
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Early Stages
Turbo Sit & Go's have a faster structure than your regular sit and go, you will experience a little more variance in your results, but if you approach the games aggressively you should come out on top in the long run. A lot of players mistake aggression with panic and get over aggressive in the wrong spots. Early on in the tournament there is no need to take many risks, take a few flops with good two way hands, but don't get involved in big pots without the nuts or close to it. Look to double up or 3/4 someone for a big pot early, don't get two carried away chasing small pots, there is no harm in limping pre-flop and folding when you miss if the game is passive enough. This is the time to build your tight image, a tight image will become crucial later on when the blinds advance in size.
Middle Stages
The blinds will start to take affect on player stacks and they will become more desperate, don't panic if you haven't won any big pots yet, wait patiently for your spot. If there are only a few players remaining, take stock of the situation and the types of players they are. If they are tight and passive start becoming looser and more aggressive. if they are looser opponents wait for a good chance to get in an isolated pot with them with a big two way hand. Start limping in less and raise coming in to put some pressure on your opponents. Obviously with some hands you want more players in the pot, particularly with something like a suited A-2 you want to encourage players into the pot with you.
Late Stages
Maintain a tight approach, find hands that go both ways, a hand like A-5-Q-Q becomes more powerful than A-2-6-7. Always come in raising, push all-in if you can, really put your pressure on your opponents. Of course with a large stack, pick your spots a little better, there is no need to put your chips at risk against another big stack when you can keep chipping away at the medium and smaller stacks. If you make sure you are getting it in with hands that go both ways, you will rarely find yourself getting scooped.
Key Considerations
There is hardly any scope for bluffing, particularly early on. Even in the later stages when you are pushing your stack around, you want to be doing it with a two way hand that if called will have to be unlucky to get scooped out of the entire pot.
Don't panic or get over-aggressive, it is a temptation that falls upon you much quicker in a turbo tournament because the short stacked feeling creeps up on you a lot quicker and there is a lot of action going on around you. Exercise patience and be more selectively aggressive, you will reap the rewards in the long run.
A player who can adjust for the situation is going to do best in these tournaments, as players get knocked out and the blinds increase adjustments need to be made. The adjustment that many players fail to consider though is the changes of style needed for certain opponents, this is an ever changing variable. Some days you will enter into a turbo sit and go and you will find the most overly aggressive play on earth and then the next one you enter is a weak-tight checkfest. Change your aggression levels and hand selection constantly based upon the type of players you feel that you are up against.
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