I throw myself at the mercy of the MTT forum. Help an old pooh-bah

[cferejohn]

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As long as you can steal the blinds once every round, you can play forever no matter your stack size. If I have 6-10x BB I am perfectly content with that and I feel as if I can stay at 6-10x BB throughout the tourney.

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Well yes that's quite a tautology, but obviously you can't always steal the blinds once around because sooner or later, you are going to get called. You will win sometimes of course, but if you are pushing often enough to win the blinds once a round, you are usually going to be an underdog when called. Also, if you are just surviving with 6-10x the BB, the blinds are going to go up and suddenly you're going to have 3-7x the BB or whatever.

You are correct of course that it's easy to take the aggression thing too far, but it's also certainly true that you do need to adjust your aggression upwards as your stack slips to 15-20x the BB.