damn those blinds
 

so, I recently played in a $30 buy-in tourney at the local casino in Sourthen California (morongo, if anyone's interested). The tourney structure is pretty hard to do battle with. Each player starts with 5000, and the blinds start at 25/50 and double every 15 minutes. The tournament maxes out at 100 players and by round 4 the blinds are already at 200/400. Everyone goes on break and we come back to 400/800 blinds and 15 minutes later, yup they're at 800/1600. How does one become sucessful in such a tournament where it becomes a crap shoot an hour into the thing? Playing tight certainly isn't an option. We're seeing about 10 hands every 15 minutes and I see many great players go down the tube to just plain bad luck...How can someone rise above this situation, with fast blinds and a low stack without busting out 2/3 of the time?

Help me out

Re: damn those blinds
 

Play Turbos on Stars for practice.

Deep stack poker this is not. Thus, you must gamble more to acquire chips. Since the blinds rise SO fast, don't be afraid of coinflip situations early in the tourney. You'll need to double up multiple times just to stay ahead of the blinds. If you bust early then so be it.

Re: damn those blinds
 

blind steals, blind steals, blind steals!

check out the 'classic emarkm post' in the MTT anthology if you need help on this.

Re: damn those blinds
 

Not many recent posts on Morongo. What is it like there? Worth going for a weekend? How about the ring NL ? Any deal on drinks etc?

Thanks