You have a new PM! Click here here to read it!

Go Back   Poker Forum Canada > Poker Forum > Poker Strategy > STT Strategy

STT Strategy This section is all about sit n' go strategy which are often referred to as STTs (Single Table Tournaments) in the poker world.



Register Now!
Reply
 
Thread Tools
Old Mar 19,2011, 06:17 PM   #1
Mr. Wonderful
 
philliivey's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,299
Turbo strategy

So I am thinking of getting into turbo sit n go's mainly because I don't have much time these days to play, I have been observing full tilt ones and it seems quite a few play really tight and act slow like they don't know it's a turbo,lol.

But anyway I am looking at 9 man and 18 man's and wonder if their is any specific strategy?
__________________
Always did the right thing and it feels good.
philliivey is offline   Reply With Quote
Old Mar 19,2011, 06:23 PM   #2
Inhumano Forboon!
 
darbday's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: BC
Posts: 5,608

PFC Tournament Wins
5 Wins Single Win Award Single Win Award 
Total Awards: 3

the strategy is no different, the preflop jam game needs to be laser sharp though.
__________________
I think I'll just get it in bad here and chalk it up to variance.
darbday is offline   Reply With Quote
Old Mar 20,2011, 01:28 PM   #3
Nothing in Life is Free
 
payperview's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Durham Region
Posts: 218

PFC Tournament Wins
Single Win Award Single Win Award 
Total Awards: 2

Play it the same as the 180 turbos on stars. Tight then super agressive. Jam and steal once blinds increase.
__________________
I need two SCOOPS like Isildur.........correction four like Deeb.
payperview is offline   Reply With Quote
Old Mar 20,2011, 11:50 PM   #4
Wannabe a Xuan Liu!
 
BlondeFish's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Triple range merging online
Posts: 3,098
What is the rake of the turbo SNGs at FTP & PokerStars?
__________________
May your EV always be positive.
BlondeFish is offline   Reply With Quote
Old Mar 21,2011, 12:35 AM   #5
Resident Prairie Pixie
 
Sharantyr's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Regina
Posts: 1,595

PFC Tournament Wins
5 Wins Single Win Award Single Win Award 
Total Awards: 3

Stars 180 man turbos:

2.00 + 0.20
7.00 + 0.70
11.00 + 1.00
__________________
_____/)___/)______./Ż"""/')
ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ\)ŻŻ\)ŻŻŻ'\_„„„„\)
Sharantyr is online now   Reply With Quote
Old Apr 04,2011, 06:57 PM   #6
Run Good Wizard
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 1,528

PFC Tournament Wins
Single Win Award 
Total Awards: 1

After running up from the 1s to 3s to now 6s 18 man turbos on stars here are some things I have seen.

1 dollar tournies - very high variance guys don't fold and just pretty much jam most times pre flop early and you will get someone calling off light.

3 dollar tournies - during the week they are extremely tight and when you get down to 6-8 left the blinds become a shove fest and its important to understand push ranges and figure out who is playing multi tables etc.

On the weekends they are a little softer so if you can survive the week grind you will increase profits over the weekend.

6 dollar tournies - Very tight, and people understand push ranges so be prepared to weild your stack if you have one late in the game.

Overall my strategy has been to try to double up early and then play a lot of position, I find early on you can pick up blinds quick and easily jump from 1500-2000 chips then look to play a couple of hands and aim to get to the final table with avg 4K chips that should ride you to the money.

During the money bubble, steal steal steal, you'd be surprised a lot of big stacks wont play against you and if they do, you can easily get down to show down with minimal chip dumping.

I also find that players will not necessarily bluff the bigger stacks if they have similar stacks, you just go and exploit the smaller stacks, which seems to be the standard formula with the big stacks.

In instances of being the small stack you can get away with shoving 2-3-4 times in a row and easily jump up places either when the tables are 6 handed or at the final table (18mans)

If you have any specific questions let me know.
blackmagicz is offline   Reply With Quote
Old Apr 05,2011, 03:04 AM   #7
#bonking
 
GTA Poker's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: South Bay, California
Posts: 5,935
Visit GTA Poker's Twitter
Quote:
Originally Posted by blackmagicz View Post

If you have any specific questions let me know.
What are you doing playing micro tournies?
__________________
That level 5 trap really paid off...ship him the cookies.
GTA Poker is offline   Reply With Quote
Old Apr 05,2011, 07:11 AM   #8
Super Moderator
 
compuease's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Milton, poker capital of the world.. after Wloo that is.
Posts: 9,242

PFC Tournament Wins
Single Win Award Single Win Award 
Total Awards: 2

Quote:
Originally Posted by GTA Poker View Post
What are you doing playing micro tournies?
He's trying to make the money back from his prop bet losses at the Jays opener.
compuease is online now   Reply With Quote
Old Apr 05,2011, 07:53 AM   #9
Run Good Wizard
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 1,528

PFC Tournament Wins
Single Win Award 
Total Awards: 1

Quote:
Originally Posted by GTA Poker View Post
What are you doing playing micro tournies?
I was doing a bankroll building challenge...took 50 bucks turned it into close to 500 in about 2 weeks...I was bored

Quote:
Originally Posted by compuease View Post
He's trying to make the money back from his prop bet losses at the Jays opener.
Thats where my profits went from the bankroll building challenge lol
blackmagicz is offline   Reply With Quote
Old Apr 05,2011, 12:00 PM   #10
Full PFC Member
 
Muddguts's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Burlington
Posts: 1,104

PFC Tournament Wins
Single Win Award 
Total Awards: 1

Quote:
Originally Posted by philliivey View Post
it seems quite a few play really tight and act slow like they don't know it's a turbo,lol
right click on their name and "find player" when they are acting slow, probably playing many many tables.
__________________
"I'd rather shoot for the moon and miss than aim for the gutter and make it" -Danny Trejo-
Muddguts is offline   Reply With Quote
Old Apr 05,2011, 01:19 PM   #11
Full PFC Member
 
HVEEPOKER's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Oakville
Posts: 2,014

PFC Tournament Wins
Single Win Award 
Total Awards: 1

Bingo as far as I am concerned. Every lucky donk and suk out artist plays these. You have the right Idea BUUUUUUUUUUUT. There is always someone willing to take the chance and usually hits the impossible to deflate that MONSTER HAND you caught. JMO.
__________________
OWES MONEY FROM PLAYOFF POOL - westside8
HVEEPOKER is offline   Reply With Quote
Old Apr 05,2011, 10:12 PM   #12
Super Moderator
 
compuease's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Milton, poker capital of the world.. after Wloo that is.
Posts: 9,242

PFC Tournament Wins
Single Win Award Single Win Award 
Total Awards: 2

Quote:
Originally Posted by HVEEPOKER View Post
Bingo as far as I am concerned. Every lucky donk and suk out artist plays these. You have the right Idea BUUUUUUUUUUUT. There is always someone willing to take the chance and usually hits the impossible to deflate that MONSTER HAND you caught. JMO.
you're not doing it right....
compuease is online now   Reply With Quote
Old Apr 05,2011, 10:48 PM   #13
Full PFC Member
 
HVEEPOKER's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Oakville
Posts: 2,014

PFC Tournament Wins
Single Win Award 
Total Awards: 1

Quote:
Originally Posted by compuease View Post
you're not doing it right....
Yer getting meaner and meaner in your golden years there fellah.
I managed to win a couple of these by mistake lol...
__________________
OWES MONEY FROM PLAYOFF POOL - westside8
HVEEPOKER is offline   Reply With Quote
Old Apr 06,2011, 06:30 AM   #14
Super Moderator
 
compuease's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Milton, poker capital of the world.. after Wloo that is.
Posts: 9,242

PFC Tournament Wins
Single Win Award Single Win Award 
Total Awards: 2

Quote:
Originally Posted by HVEEPOKER View Post
Yer getting meaner and meaner in your golden years there fellah.
I managed to win a couple of these by mistake lol...
You do realize that it is good if you are getting sucked out on right? It means you are the better player, keep doing it.
compuease is online now   Reply With Quote
Old Apr 06,2011, 07:52 AM   #15
Run Good Wizard
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 1,528

PFC Tournament Wins
Single Win Award 
Total Awards: 1

With these high variance tournaments remember volume is the key. I was loading up between 10-15 at a time and basically applying a simple push/fold strategy for the most part with in relation to stack sizes.

Here are some quick stats I pulled my tracker:

Hand / Times / Win %
AA / 51 / 90.2
AKs/ 30 / 80
AKo/ 90 / 81.11
AQs/ 39/ 64.1
AQo/ 101/ 66.34
AJs/ 34/ 64.71
AJo/ 90/ 72.22
KK/ 49/ 79.59
KQs/ 34/ 50
KQo/ 105/ 46.67
KJs/ 24/ 33.33
KJo/ 119/ 53.78
QQ/ 54/ 77.78
JJ/ 41/ 73.17
TT/ 50/ 66

This number is from 250 tournaments.

Last edited by blackmagicz; Apr 06,2011 at 07:55 AM. Reason: Making my chart a little more legible
blackmagicz is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
180 man turbo reibs MTT Strategy 35 Sep 29,2010 11:00 PM
Should I go turbo? UnderTheGun MTT Strategy 2 Mar 31,2010 04:37 PM
Turbo vs Non-Turbo SnGs Regulator General Poker Chat 15 Apr 09,2009 03:33 PM
LOL Turbo Donkaments westside8 Brags, Beats & Variance 5 Jun 02,2008 11:38 AM
Turbo Blinds westside8 Online Poker Talk 2 Aug 29,2005 08:21 AM

 
Top Sites
Winner Poker

250% up to $2,000
Bonus Code: Canada
 
PokerStars

$600 FREE
Marketing Code: PSA8177
 
Party Poker

100% up to $500 FREE
Bonus Code: CANADA2012
 

Poker Stars



All times are GMT -5. The time now is 08:06 PM.

Poker Forum Canada offers bonuses for many online poker sites. Party Poker Bonus Code is the best Canadian poker bonus with  Titan Poker Bonus Code being the second best and last but not least is PokerStars Marketing Code. Clearing the full bonus on each site will add a total of $1,700 in bonus cash to your online bankroll.

Powered by vBulletin
Copyright ©2000 - 2012, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
LinkBacks Enabled by vBSEO 3.6.0 © 2011, Crawlability, Inc.