Re: Age Old question about early tourney strategy
If there's pretty good talent, like you say, then it may not be worth playing.
Arnold Snyder wrote a book "The Poker Tournament Formula", describing a strategy to beat fast tourneys, however, the way he describes the live tourneys he plays in Las Vegas, most of entrants are "wimps", who fold quite a bit to pressure. (In a nutshell, build a big stack early and wield it like a club against the wimps. Don't let the blinds and antes short stack you because you are "waiting for a hand", like most of the others)
I haven't had much successs with his agressive strategies in online tourneys, because they aren't populated by wimps. I haven't played live since I read the book, so I can't say whether it would work there either.
This is too fast a tourney to employ a tight strategy like TJ's.
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