How bad would it be to fold every hand on levels 1-3 in a 10+1?

[The Yugoslavian]

I agree with everything you said except I don't understand what in my post you disagree with.

Obviously one is giving up $EV by automatically folding in the first 3 levels. However, I'm interested in what people think about the possibility recouping that $EV and more by doing it to allow more SNGs/hr.

Do you think that every winning player generates +$EV on levels 1-3? IMO many winning players may be leaking $EV due to too many mistakes playing hands in the early levels (I remember a very interesting Irie post that alluded to this point). It's hard to significantly increase one's $EV too much that early in an SNG but it is very easy to significantly decrease one's $EV in the early stages of a SNG.

Yugoslav