Re: early stages against total idiots
These specific hands are folds. People love, love, love JT, so if the flop is JTx, and villains go nuts, someone is on two pair.
More generally, you don't want to donk it up, but the point that you have to get the fishs' chips before someone else does is very important. Figure out who the idiots are at the table, and make it your busienss to get in hands with them with any reasonable holding. They don't care about kickers much, so (to take your KJ example) top pair, king-kicker is probably good. While some argue that TPTK is not a hand with which to go to felt, that is simply not true in the first hour of a $20+2.
Also, when you flop big, remember that they don't understand stacks and betting, so get them in on the intallment plan. They don't realize that if you bet half your stack you are pot committed, so bet whatever you think they'll call.
In these huge tournaments, your goal should not be to get to the first break with your stack in tact, but to get there with 2x your starting stack.
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