

We'll use our image/fold equity later on when antes kick in to (successfully) steal the blinds, or shove if we have a short stack (10-15 big blinds). The image we want to project is that we're tight. What we want to do instead is focus on building our fold equity. To put this into perspective, picking up the blinds with a 2000 stack increases your stack by 1.5%. You start with 100, 150 or 200 big blinds, so picking up a 30 chip pot does little to change that, much less your equity in the tournament. Your turbo MTT strategy should be similar to your non-turbo strategy during the first couple of levels. The First Couple of Levels, Nothing is Different So, with that in mind lets move on to some strategy. That's unlike a non-turbo tournament where you can make small mistakes and have time to correct them before the blinds go up. Make a mistake and you have minutes, maybe seconds before the blinds change and (effective) stack sizes and fold equity shrink. What's important to understand is that mistakes in turbo MTTs compound faster. What you want to take away from this isn't so much that turbo MTTs are faster. It takes about an hour to reach that level in standard tournaments.

Some players adjust too much, opening tons of hands at 10/20, only to realize they're busting tournaments left and right. Especially if you come from a non-turbo background. Turbo multi-table tournaments are a beast all their own. Turbo Tournament Strategy Adjustments - How To Profit In Faster MTT Games!
