In this post, we walk you through how we conquer victories at low stakes turbo tournaments. We show you all the key hands from the final table of this $7 Turbo tournament on Pokerstars.
Trying to hit the nuts for cheap
Don’t be scared to take off cards and try and hit when getting a good price with good implied odds, here our opponent limped in and min-bet this flop.
We only have a gutshot, but for the sake of flicking in 1,200 chips into a pot of 7,000 and with another 15,000 chips for us to win if we hit our hand, we have a good price here. We also have a backdoor flush draw that could be good and our pair outs could be live against hands like KQ and KJ that are just taking a stab.
So whereas I used to always fold in spots like this, now from time to time I mix in some floats.
As will happen a majority of the time in this spot we miss and our opponent continued on the turn with a larger bet so we have an easy fold.
Short Stacked Hand Selection
I used to shove hands that weren’t always good like A3o UTG with 10BBs, when we are short-stacked we are going to want to shove hands with good equity when called.
I prefer shoving here with KTo than I would with A2o for example because we will have way more equity when called by hands like A8, 44 etc… so look to migrate your jamming ranges to include high card hands like this and JTs, T9s etc rather than lower offsuit Ace high combinations.
Pick your spots wisely with ICM conditions taken into account
So in this spot for example, we have a good hand, but we want to weigh up the Pros and Cons of this spot, yes we have a one of the top of range hands for this stack, however, there is one player with not even a small blind alive and a 5BB stack in play too.
Not only this but we are UTG and out of position in this hand with the chip leader in the Big Blind.
All of this made me lay this hand down and move on to the next hand.
As it happens we were right to make this fold because the Big Blind woke up with A9o and would have most likely called us had we moved all in any way.
Scrap ICM in Certain Spots
Whilst we need to be wary of making certain decisions carefully in some spots, there are going to be other spots where we are going to have to risk the chips, even when we are not the shortest stack.
In this particular pot, the aggressive chip leader moves all in and we are basically tied for second place at this point with 4 remaining and the Small Blind just having 5BBs.
However, we have AKo which rates to be the best hand nearly always in this spot with our opponent likely to flip over ATs, AJo, AQo, KQs, KJs and some pairs which we can win a flip against.
As it happens we are up against QQ, pretty unfortunate for us considering a lot of the time we will be dominating our opponents 12BB effective shoving range here, but we can win by hitting and that is exactly what we do, hitting a King on the turn and locking up the win on a blank River.
We continue on this Final Table battle in part two where we show you how to play with the chip lead short-handed to close out the win…
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