any strategy change in a tourney with this blind structure?

[orenthal]

usually about 40 players to start out. start with 33k in chips.
blinds go up every 30 minutes and follow this format;
300-600
500-1000
1000-2000
5000-10000
15000-30000
and continue going up from there. by the 5th level it is down to one table. is there any thing i need to do differently in a tourney with this type of cracked out format (other than just not play it). all the players are LAGs, but with the blinds like this you cant wait around too long for big hands becuase you can get blinded out easily.

[DesertCat]

Good question. Just not playing it is one choice I've been making at Casino AZ, which runs 100+ person tournies, stacks starting at 40BB and quadrupling in two hours. I'd like to play them, and need to come up with a better strategy myself.

Your tourney is slightly deeper, and slightly slower escalating, but I think our problems are similar. My thoughts are that you need to find opportunities to fold opponents out of good pots with big all-in re-raises, and you should slow play some big hands. Your problem is that the blinds are going to take solid play out pretty quickly and reduce it to an all-in fest, so you need to take risks to double up before then. You should target tight players at your table (if any) for the all ins, and LAG's for the slow plays.

Not much of a theory, but I'm pretty sure tight solid play is a recipe for being blinded down in these tournies. And I think it's better to be knocked out in 15 minutes so you can play the ring games, than to limp around for three hours.

[orenthal]

what your saying makes sense. it turns into a lottery after about an hour with anybody pushing any two. the bad beats were coming fast and furious the night i was there.