[nath]

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This is from the part posted in the books forum:

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Success in fast tournaments is not primarily about exploiting weak/tight players. And my book shows mathematically and in great detail why it is not primarily about playing according to the current size of your chip stack relative to the current blinds/antes. It is about making enough money during the portions of the tournament where you have the greatest control over your results to go into the crapshoot portions of a tournament with an advantage. Every fast tournament (and very many slow tournaments with large field sizes) turns into a crapshoot at a very predictable point in the tournament, which my book shows players how to predict.

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Doesn't this sound a little bit like Nath's online (and maybe not online) tournament strategy? Playing lots of hands early for small pots and outplaying opponents post-flop etc. to make build a big stack. Then when the fast structure catches up to others, you have a big stack to beat them around with (or you already busted).

This really seems to make sense to me.

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It's not too far off. I like to start building my stack immediately. In slower, deeper structures, this leans more toward identifying bad players and making big hands that they will pay off or just picking up the pots from them in position when they act weak. In faster structures, it's identifying any spot where I think I can win the pot, and getting in there and winning it..

The idea is to have enough chips to keep putting pressure on people-- the more chips you have the easier it is to accumulate chips. And when the tournament gets to the stage where it's a preflop move-in fest, you have enough chips to gamble in the necessary spots, and survive if you lose, and knock out other people if you win.