[MichaelOar]

I'm hardly a limit hold 'em tourney specialist, but I do have a Friday $200 MTT win on Party (back when it was still a limit tourney) and I cashed in the last limit tourney I played (WPO down in Tunica) so I'll give you my two cents:

1. Because MANY of the PPM satellites were NL events rather than limit, I think many of the players may be limit HE fish.
2. I don't think that many players are going to be trying to "weak-tight" themselves into the money. Some MAY play a level or two that way---but I don't think it will last, because . . .
3. Most people don't know what tight play is anyhow! KTo UTG. Sure! A5s? Yeah, baby. In limit tournaments, I think you have to play super-tight--or at least much tighter than you would in a NL tourney.
4. My only big buy-in event ever was the 2004 WSOP Main Event. Near the end of day three, I was sitting with enough chips that I probably could have folded my way into the money (instead, I busted with AK vs AQ on an AKQ flop), but there was no way I was going to do that. While 10K would have been nice for a struggling young law student like me, I figured that you only have so many chances to take a shot at really "life-changing" money. Go for it! I would go into the PPM with the goal of winning it all, not skating into the money.
5. Remember that you will be playing with a deep stack, and there is no hurry to start grabbing chips.
6. Everything that Tom McEvoy and TJ have written on tournament play is gold!
7. Good Luck!

Michael