The idea is that the blinds are raised a lot more frequently than most of the other poker tournaments that you play online. Where in "normal" tournaments the blinds might be raised every twelve or fifteen minutes, the blinds in turbo poker tournaments get raised as fast as every three minutes in some cases! This means that you need to have your wits about you at all times and you must play your good hands strongly.
Turbo poker tournaments have one big advantage going for them - they are quick! Sometimes it can get very frustrating sitting for hours on end playing the regular poker tournaments and freerolls, turbos are MUCH faster.
One of the best turbo poker tournaments around for the low stakes poker players among you is the Poker Stars $1.50 + $0.25 tourney. There are dozens of these every day and as well as no limits holdem, there's limit and pot limit too and also Omaha and Stud poker. The tournaments start as soon as there are 18 players registered, which in the case of low limits Texas Holdem is every two or three minutes.
I have played the low limits Texas Holdem regularly over the last few days (November 2005) and have found that I've been getting EXCELLENT returns on my stakes. In the last four days I've played one tournament each day and my results have been: 1st, 2nd, 1st and 3rd! Here's the emails I've had from Poker Stars confirming my tournament placings, (I've changed my name and the tournament numbers to protect myself from poker sharks!)
From: "PokerStars Support"
To: poker****@********.com
Cc:
Subject: Results for PokerStars Tournament 15037***
Send: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 21:36:52 -0500
PokerStars Tournament #15037188, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $1.50/$0.25
18 players
Total Prize Pool: $27.00
Tournament started - 2005/11/12 - 20:42:45 (ET)
Dear Big******,
You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $10.80 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.
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From: "PokerStars Support"
To: poker****@********.com
Cc:
Subject: Results for PokerStars Tournament 14983***
Send: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:43:58 -0500
PokerStars Tournament #14983859, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $1.50/$0.25
18 players
Total Prize Pool: $27.00
Tournament started - 2005/11/11 - 17:53:28 (ET)
Dear Big******,
You finished the tournament in 2nd place.
A $8.10 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.
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From: "PokerStars Support"
To: poker****@********.com
Cc:
Subject: Results for PokerStars Tournament 14939***
Send: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:51:14 -0500
PokerStars Tournament #14939542, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $1.50/$0.25
18 players
Total Prize Pool: $27.00
Tournament started - 2005/11/10 - 18:02:54 (ET)
Dear Big******,
You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $10.80 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.
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From: "PokerStars Support"
To: poker****@********.com
Cc:
Subject: Results for PokerStars Tournament 14897***
Send: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 19:48:41 -0500
PokerStars Tournament #14897972, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $1.50/$0.25
18 players
Total Prize Pool: $27.00
Tournament started - 2005/11/09 - 18:55:37 (ET)
Dear Big******,
You finished the tournament in 3rd place.
A $5.40 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.
That's a consistent return and let me tell you it was VERY easy. I'm not about to go and pick up the keys for my new Merc with the proceeds, but isn't it better to be winning regularly than losing? Each of the turbo poker tournaments took less than an hour to play, about half the time a regular game would have taken.
There's a simple strategy for winning these tournaments that I've used successfully - just sit tight. Play only when you get a big hand and don't get too phased if your blinds are running out. Statistically you are bound to get a big hand every now and again, just wait until it happens and get the maximum advantage you can from it.
If you're interested in making steady returns I would urge you to give the freerolls a miss for a night and try out the Poker Stars Turbo poker tournaments. Or even play them both but please DO give the turbo a go.
Then come back and tell me how much you won!
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