Full Tilt has added Super Turbo HU SNGs to their game lineup. Here, I discuss strategies and reading material for Super Turbo HUSNGs, where the stacks start at only 500 chips.
Super Turbos are a new innovation in the world of online poker. Super Turbos are available on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. Super Turbos last 3-4 minutes on average.
A Super Turbo game could be considered any game where the stacks never get deeper than 30BB. At these short stack sizes, a game theoretically optimal strategy can be discovered.
In position, unless your opponent has read this article, you should minraise every hand. Your opponent can only exploit this by 3-betting a very high percentage of the time: 50% or more!
Out of position, if your opponent is passive (rarely raises), you should only 3-bet for value. Probably A8+, 22+, and JTs+. Your opponents hand will be stronger than yours when he does raise, and he is forgoing a large edge by not raising often preflop. Therefore, you profit every time you get the button, but he does not profit when he gets the button. This is an inequilibrium that favors you.
If he is aggressive in position, 3-bet the top 50% of your hands, and call a shove. This is because your opponent will not usually have a hand that can stand up to a reraise, and once you have reraised, you almost always have pot-odds to call an all-in.
I think 2-4% ROI is achievable in these games. 1% is probably a good goal for most professional players, at low to middle stakes. As such, you should bankroll very conservatively. 100 buyins is probably not enough, I would like 150 or 200! You can use the Kelly Bankroll Calculator on this site to get an idea of what your bankroll requirements should be. Personally, I've seen plenty of bad opponents at the $5 and $10 levels, and I am positive that games at these stakes are beatable.
If you're going to pursue these games, the following is required reading:
Better Than Nash Shoving Equilibriums
How To Play Short Stacks HU
Skates Inflection Points
