tournament strategy

[Naismith 0]

The place where I play has two different tournament structures:A regular 120 person tournament where you start with 700 chips and the blinds start at 10-15, going up every 20 minutes.A turbo tournament, between 30-50 people, starting with 500 chips with the blinds starting at 10-15 and going up every ten minutes.I've had some success, although not much lately. I went on a good run when I locked down and played extremely tight poker. Is that just a necessity with such small stacks from the start?I'd love to hear some strategy suggestions. Most of the players in these things are pretty bad.Peace,Jay

[wrto4556 0]

That sounds like a crap shoot. You should try to get alot of chips early on. Blinds are big compared to your stack and raise way too often. Loose/aggressive.

[Smasharoo 0]

700 10/15 isn't too bad. You could play normal tight strategy for early rounds and be fine.500 10/15 with fast escelating blinds is something I wouldn't even play, but if I did I'd play very agressively but still tightly pre-flop.You have to be prepared to be all in a lot in the turbo thing.

[troll 0]

500 10/15 with fast escelating blinds is something I wouldn't even play, but if I did I'd play very agressively but still tightly pre-flop.You have to be prepared to be all in a lot in the turbo thing.

I agree with part of this. You definetly will have to be comfortable with being all in a lot. But I think that you would have to play agressively pre-flop. You would need to expand your starting hand criteria.

[Naismith 0]

Thank you for the replies (and sorry to Smash for not including the link).I've been considering not doing the turbos anymore. I'm okay with being all in, but mostly because my experience in tournament poker is the above. I've not played other formats though would love to play a slow moving, big starting stack tourney.Thanks for the help, though.Peace,Jay