8 Max Tournament Freeroll for $1500 Prize with Tiered Stacks Strategy? (1 Viewer)

[Godzilla28]

I qualified for a 8 Max Freeroll for $1500 and pays top 4 places. This was a local tournament series and normally we start off with 5000 chips and 25/50 blinds 20 min levels. But for this freeroll the chips stacks are as follows:

1st 12000
2nd 10000
3rd 9000
4th 8000
5,6 6000
7,8 5000

Players are moderate, some nits and mostly TAGs. I have never played anything like this that pays top 50% for this kind of money. I am 6th place so short compared to leaders. Should I sit back and nit it up to squeak in or should I come out guns blazing to try and take 1st.

Thanks in advance for any insights.

 

[DrStrange]

If the rest of the table is TAG or nitish, then lock and load those guns and fire away.

 

[moojersey]

I agree all barrels should go in blazing, but be careful if they play back at you

 

[Godzilla28]

Yeah, I figured a controlled LAG or Hyper LAG would be the best approach. I just didnt know if any ICM considerations b/c of the 50% field gets paid and that we start out at different stacks would change things.

 

[Jimulacrum]

Prize distribution?

We have a field of nits and a game that starts off slightly short-handed. We can reasonably expect many of our opponents to be playing squeaky-tight because of how close the bubble will always be.

It kinda is a pretty sound strategy to avoid big risks and the rest of them duke it out when it pays so deep. But since everyone will be doing that already, we need to do something to have an edge. Also, it pays deep but not flat (right?), so accumulating chips does matter, and we should be doing that.

Subject to actually sitting down and observing the opposition, I'm thinking I would go for a mixed TAG out out position / LAG in position approach. We don't want to be going nuts out of the gate with 8 players still in, but we should still steal with a fairly wide range of hands from the button and cutoff (and SB/BB situations, depending on our neighbor) The TAG part will limit the number of tricky situations we get into, and the LAG part should give us a small stream of income and buy us extra action on our "real" hands.