Turbo Six Handed All-Ins

[rudefella]

I've recently started been playing some $5 buy-in, 6-handed turbo sngos for fun and to help maintain a bank roll for playing in MTTs.

One strategy I've been trying is shoving all-in preflop with AA or KK whenever I get such a hand in the first round of hands or so. Often, inducing people call with lower pocket pairs (even 33) or AK AQ, expecting that I am donking out with garbage. I think doing this with QQ may also be profitable, except for people calling with AK is not so dominating a situation.

What do people think of this? When people call, I double up, but have a 20% change of busting out sometimes. I realize that doubling up doesn't guarantee making the money, but it seems to help much more helpful in 6 max turbos than in full ring. I also almost never play the same people, so few people would be in a position to catch on.

[zachaser]

Bad strategy. You eliminate your postflop advantage completely and turn AA and KK into JUST preflop hands. In other words, you miss value from all sorts of hands that would have called a normal raise, then gotten all in against you with something retarded, such as the donk who calls your raise with J7s and goes all in on J23 board, but would have folded if you shoved all in pf. Make sense?

[rudefella]

I see your point, although no one at these tables is calling raises with J7. The players aren't that bad. From my experience, I see them calling with ragged aces and only calling on the flop if they hit an ace (which beats my kinds and won't happen often when I have aces), or calling with a small pair and only calling if they hit a set (then I'm behind). So I don't see the postflop advantage at these tables (turbos at least). There would be some players calling with any two broad way cards and calling off with TPTK - I lose postflop play to them. People with other high pairs are probably reraising and I am getting their chips regardless. And like I said, I am only doing this at the very beginning when many players just assume you are moving all in with nothing and when picking up the blinds is nothing. I don't shove like this after the first orbit or so.