Super Turbos

Well I guess I am a glutton for punishment but I have started playing some super turbo SNG's for fun recently. My last foray into these represents my only significant downswing as a SNG player. I took an 80BI downswing, recovered most of it, then headed back down to 80BI before calling it quits.

Well the allure of the ST SNG is back for me. I am running break even over an insignificant sample size but I am happy to report that my decision making is better than ever at these games. I feel very confidant that I should be winning money and that despite the high variance that I will be winning money before too long.

One reason that I wanted to play them is that I was reviewing some strategies for making loose calls as well as calling while getting attractive odds. Since these situations are much more prevalent in the superturbos I figured it would be fun to give it a shot.

One thing that I am certain of though is that the default ranges I assign for callers in regular turbos are no where near correct for the super turbos. Where a bad player typically will not call under normal circumstances wider than 30% in a turbo, even bad players in ST's get closer to optimum strategy when making loose calls. I am not sure I have derived any new rules of thumb but one thing I am toying with is assigning a wide range to everyone not just good players.

The reason that I think this might be optimal is that there is a factor in making calls with SNG's that in most normal situations, calling wider than about 40% becomes a losing play. Therefore even the good players at super turbos can't call much wider than 40%, it just turns out that even bad players more often approximate a good players loose calling range of 40% or greater.

Anyways, its just a reminder that even when you think you know something, in certain situations it can be wrong. Its always worth re-evaluating the games you are playing to make sure advice you are given is still valid.

Good luck at the tables (especially you guys playing the WSOP this year).

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