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Originally Posted by voy@ger
Dunno why but my logic says me that tournament speed should affect on our strategy, it's simillar to difference between FR, SH and HU in cash games.
Similar in that a lot of confused nonsense is talked about it?
If you are on the button in a cash game and it folds to you, why does the number of people who folded affect your strategy affect what hands are profitable against the blinds?
There is a thing called "card removal" but it is a very minor effect. Of course the situation when you can steal from the button is rarer in full ring than in 6 max but it doesn't change your ranges in that situation (unless you think the blinds will play differently in the two games). You play the same in the same situation, you just get fewer opportunities to play loose.
In the case of SNGs, if we are 3-handed and the stacks are
Player 1 5000
Player 2 3000
Player 3 2000
and the payouts are 50-30-20, how much are those stacks each worth if the blinds are 100/200, 200/400 or 300/600? The answer doesn't vary that much.
A specific set up (given blinds, given stacks and positions) can end in various positions (in terms of who has what stack) which have various values to the players and everyone is trying to maximise their value. If those values don't change much based on what the blinds are going to be in 3-5 hands time then the fact the blinds may be different in 3-5 hands time doesn't need to be taken account of much.
There are big differences in how we play when the effective stack is 5BB and when the effective stack is 10BB. We can jam much wider with an effective stack of 5BB. The confusion here is that the 5BB situation comes up much more often in turbos and hypers but we are playing the stacks, blinds, payouts on this hand regardless that the blinds may change soon.
Plexiq's answer is true, if you're going to be the first to pay the increased blinds you might be more marginally more likely to take your chances than you otherwise would be - but if someone else is going to be first and you'll be safely on the button before the blinds increase then presumably the reverse is true, so this doesn't add up to some kind of general thing like "play looser in a faster structure". Also in reality you rarely know exactly how many hands till the next blind change comes unless its literally the next hand. If so you can also include "blinds up next hand" or "in X hands" as part of the situation but again, that's a situation that can occur in any structure not something specific to turbos.
Last edited by LektorAJ; 11-06-2018 at 12:52 PM.