Adjusting for one seat paying, ultra turbo structure

Rupert · #1 03-27-2007, 10:09 AM

My local poker club runs sit and go's for £22 buyin, with one spot awarding a seat worth £200 (10 runners). The structure is awful:

10 minute levels, 1000 chips
25/50
50/100
100/200
150/300 [sometimes]
200/400
300/600

What basic adjustments should I be making. The players are all absolute crap and have no understanding of ICM etc, just tunnel vision (oh these are my two cards? without consideration of what others may have/betting before them).

If someone raises to 150 in EP, on level 1, should I just let go of most PPs? Once it is 150/300 or 200/400 I figure to just shove any 2 when i'm first to open since their calling ranges don't adjust seems correct?

I figure in general these would be high variance sit and go's but I play them anyway since there is no other game running.

Thanks in advance,
Rupert

Kibby · #2 03-27-2007, 10:16 AM

I think reads are important here but I'm pushing over average donks on level 1 with 88+, AQ+ and playing ICM after the first level.

RexWoo · #3 03-27-2007, 10:17 AM

If there is only one spot paid, ICM is of no use at all as $EV = cEV.

JuntMonkey · #4 03-27-2007, 10:24 AM

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If there is only one spot paid, ICM is of no use at all as $EV = cEV.

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Can you SNGPT this by using a Stars structure and changing it to cEV? You have to make up stack sizes that add up to 13500 though. I have big problems with winner-takes-all. Are baby aces better or worse? Is QJs awesome with 8x from MP?