how to adjust to weird tournament rules? (cross post)

[k_squared]

not to list all the rules, but the ones that are the most unusual... (cross posted in tournament section)

(1) you may raise in increments lower than the blinds, but the big blind must be met pre-flop.

and this is my favorite adjustment to a typical tournament structure!!!

(2) "To keep the game social and discourage overly-aggressive game play, each individual player may only raise once per betting round (pre-flop, flop, turn, river) - this means that a player cannot check-raise or re-raise after s/he has already checked or raised once in a single betting round." (I am also aware of the fact that saying you can raise only once does not directly imply that you can't check-raise, even though the original writer seems to believe it does).

As far as I am concerned this effectively takes the fun out of tournament play... it becomes a lot more like a game of war then I am accustomed to. You lose a lot of the tools of an effective player. But regardless, my wife wants to play in a live game, and has friend... and so we are going.

How would you adjust your strategy to these rules? (aside from trying to convince the guy to change the rules!)

It seems to me that position becomes even more important because the last person to act is also the last person who can raise. You can never be 'trapped' by your opponenets.