Hyper-turbo

Also: hyper, hyperturbo

A tournament with extremely fast blind levels, often just two or three minutes online, so that the whole event is push/fold almost from the start. Spin & Go games are hyper-turbo by design.

Example. The $10 hyper-turbo finished in 25 minutes.

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