Stud/Hi tourney: bubble question

[Hauser_III]

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there is a lot of validity to folding into the money and then start pushing your hands

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I'm not sure there's validity to that approach, just because your chip stack is going to go down rapidly while waiting for the bubble to burst. While people drop like flies from about 90 to 70, once it hits hand for hand, many, if not most, of the short stacks go into severe turtle mode, and dropping the last 8 from 56 to 48 could have taken as many as 10, 15 or 20 hands, based on my (somewhat limited) experience in that Party stud tourney. The antes, bring-ins and bet levels don't remain static, but keep increasing every 15 minutes, and the time spent waiting for all 8 tables to finish their current hands isn't deducted when they calculate that 15 minutes. You'll see 6, 8, maybe 10 hands in a 15 minute period of hand-for-hand play. Consequently, if you play turtle with an 1800 stack, and do squeak into the bubble, and have had to bring-in at least once or twice (a realistic assumption), you're going to be down to just about no chips when the bubble finally bursts. 1,000 chips, or most likely less, just isn't enough to work with at those betting levels when the average chip stack is around 8000.