Took first place in another $5 Sit-N-Go at lunch today. I’m really trying to play fewer “turbo” SnGs, and more regular SnGs, as the guru says that turbos level the playing field too much. He says that the fast escalating blinds and the whole crapshoot nature of a late stage turbo takes away too much of a skill player’s edge. I agree with him…. and I don’t.
Call me schizophrenic, but I see both the pros and the cons of playing turbo structures. On the one hand, I agree that you have to play more loosely in a turbo, but the counter argument is that so does the competition. It’s still a skill to be mastered, just a different skill. The hardest part of playing a turbo is balancing hand selection with patience. You know you have to make a move sooner than you’d like, but you also know that your competition has the same problem. In a non-turbo SnG, you can mostly just wait for the goods, meanwhile letting the poor and/or impatient play of the competition beat themselves. That’s how I won today: fold, fold, fold until I hit QQ or AK or TT, and then I pushed hard with those hands. In a turbo, you don’t have the luxury of being able to wait for monsters, so you have make hands like KT and QJ and small pairs work instead.
Maybe this is all just rationalizing on my part. The truth is that turbos are more fun for me to play than regular SnGs. Maybe it’s the whole action-junkie gene that lives inside of me. Turbos are also, obviously, faster and can be more easily played in a lunch hour here at work. More justification, perhaps…
As an aside, if I look at my Poker Tracker numbers. I have similar win percentages for $5 non-turbos (52% in the money) as I do with $6 turbos (48%). Don't know what that says, other than I'm doing pretty well in both.
All-in for now…
-Bug
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