What Is a Turbo Sit and Go?
November 30th, 2009Poker was never originally conceived of as a quick game. The way that it was taught to me poker is a slow game full of silent contemplation. Every player should take all the time they need to examine their cards and plan their next move. The modern tournament culture has changed all of that. People need to make decisions quickly because they need to progress to the next stage. At the height of this obsession with speed is the sit and go tournament. These tournaments consist of a single table where the players engage in a kind of sudden death poker that keeps going on until one player has all the chips.
As if this was not ruthless enough, a new invention called turbo sit and go has just hit the poker online world. What makes a sit and go officially “turbo” is the blinds structure. If the blinds move up rapidly, it’s considered to be a turbo version of the already quick sit and go. Turbo sit and go tournaments are available all over the internet and are especially popular with casinos that offer multi table sit and go tournaments. Turbo tournaments take poker to new speeds, and we will have to wait and see what it does to the old fashioned game.
