How To Play Poker For Beginners Lesson On Turbo Poker Tournaments

The turbo poker game is a fast paced money or free online poker tournament games where the blinds increase much more quickly than usual..

Every 12-15 minutes is the standard increase interval in normal poker games. In a turbo tournament, the blinds increase every, say, 3-6 minutes.

Given these numbers, a turbo tournament is upto 4 times as fast as a normal tournament.

So how do you factor in a speed of upto 4x into your playing style? Does this mean playing more hands? No.

For instance, if in a ordinary tournament you "small-ball" - a poker type of play where you play more hands than the other players, like 7-6 (even offsuit) and A-x (suited) which others feel somewhat woozy when holding. And when you hit the Flop hard, you bet hard as well - because in the earlier levels the blinds are low in relation to the average stacks, so in risk-reward/Return On Investment terms it is worth it.

But in a turbo tournament you can't use this playing style. Blinds increase, but the number of hands never increase; in fact, they decrease. Where you may play 60 hands in the first 4 levels of a normal poker tournament, you will play only 15-20 hands in a turbo game, you'll fold most of them of course.

What hands do you not fold?

- A-A, K-K, Q-Q, obviously.

- In the early levels you can also try out connectors because your opponents might be a bit scared about losing their chips early with a, say, weak Ace or King.

- However, in the later levels, where everybody is near to blinding out, also put A-x or K-x (where x is greater than 10) and smaller pocket pairs in your arsenal.

Why? Because, simply, unless you play, the blinds won't only eat you - they'll devour you!

Should you move all-in with a number of hands than you are comfortable with in an ordinary tournament, you may make the others fold.

And even with a caller, you will be on a classic coin flip if you have a pocket pair; you could be a favorite if you have A-x (x>10) and the caller is a weak Ace; and you will have two live cards with K-x and Q-x.

In the late levels the game is going to be mostly preflop; a series of crapshoots; so take advantage of preflop aggression.

However, you can also take advantage of postflop aggression in the late levels.

Suppose you are in the button with K-x where x is weak and the blinds call. You sense that the other two players have weak hands. Now the flop comes somewhat scary (A-8-3) for example.

If you've got the Eight or the Three and both the other players check, you can bet. However, you can also bet if both of them check even though you do not have anything. You have position; you are the best player to determine whether each other player has something.

Near the bubble, if you're sinking in chips, move all in with A-x, K-x or Q-x. Most likely you will be drawing live. Others will be afraid to call you because they don't really know what you have and they'll be the one sinking in chips should they call you incorrectly (or if you luck out).

If you play turbo, free poker games or for cash I hope this short advice article helps you some. If you have not played much or any Turbo games then be sure to practice with free poker online before you risk any real money.

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