Playing Turbo Games
Turbo games are popular satellite games used by both casinos and online sites to provide players a chance to play their way to a much bigger tournament. These games usually have a faster structure with much shorter blind levels as compared to the bigger tournaments. Online, they can often feature just one minute blind intervals depending on where you play. This usually means a lot of gamblers, and a lot of ‘all-ins’ very early on in the game with rather marginal holdings.
For the patient player, this is excellent. This means that for your big hands, you will be getting a lot of action and will be paid off. Look to be playing big with you ace king hands and big pocket pairs since they will often get calls from much more marginal hands and the gamblers who somehow manage to just throw their chips in and are happy to leave and fill up on the cash game tables after busting out. Look for tight opponents who seem to be afraid to bust out and continue to torment them with raises and steals from good position.
With such a fast structure, becoming a short stack is something that is bound to happen, so do not be afraid to put it all in when everything is folded to you and blinds are eating up your power to play anything. Watch out for short stacks behind you if you are going to play a hand, folding after a pre flop raise is a terrible habit to do since you have already committed some of your chips. Picking the correct spots to steal can see you suddenly double up a few times and be competing amongst the chip leaders, without all that much work. Turbo games are often cheaper, which means you can budget for two of them to help you make it to the next big tournament.
