Let me tell you guys about my experiance today at a $60 sattelite tourney that is a lead up to the Aussie Poker Millions. I played it and it was turbo style (quickly increasing blinds). Everyone is under pressure after about 3/4 of an hour as the blinds went quickly from 25/50 to 200/400. I hate this sort of thing because everyone is quickly forced into tough decisions. If you dont get cards you get eliminated in under an hour! Does not involve any skill just pot luck. Should be outlawed. Sometimes you dont get cards for an hour and you just get blinded out. try and get in for the minimum I hear you say? If you do your almost all in anyhow~!

Then I guess the simple solution would be to not play them then. I would really only suggest playing turbos if it's for a price you can afford and won't care too much about the outcome.

I've had a lot of fun and a little success along with my friends with the 5 dollar turbos on UB. You have to use a lot of skill in my opinion because you really have to learn to pick your spots well. It is somewhat beneficial.

longball you're a drunk homo...


but he's right... don't like em? don't play em

Of course they involve skill, just different skill.

You don't like them because you don't do well in them.

I will say that I love them.

People develop an idea of how "poker" should be played, and get frustrated when the right way to play isn't successful. They will then say that the format or the players are too bad to beat.

The skill in Turbos is understanding the value of your hand relative to the field, isolating short stacks and feeding off their corpses, blinds defense, stealing, and re-stealing. After the first 30min, post flop play and pot odds have less value.

Basically, you have to be an excellent short-stack player to do well in turbos.