I think its difficult to give tips for a tourney that has such a massive field and such a fast structure.
You seem to want advice on how to play the early stages. I think it doesn"t matter which style you play out of LAG or TAG, you pick the one that suits you personally.
I find that TAG will get you into the money enough times to have a +ROI over the long run. LAG will, with a bit of luck give you a chip count in the top 100 (or even chip leader) but will ultimately mean you dont cash as often
The real skill is kicking on and adapting to the different situations, in order to go super deep. If you are chip leader with 2000 players left to go, you still have a hell of lot of work to do. The only real advantage that you have at this stage, is that you can take a few beats and still, come back.
In the previous thread that I put a link to, George mentions carefully assessing each players pushing and calling ranges. This seems great key advice and is the sort of skill (that I completely lack) that is needed to regularly kick on in a tourney like this.
In short, your cards become increasingly irrelevant and it is all about finding correct situations to stick your chips in. Morlspin, in his post, made 2 folds that the average player, myself included, wouldn"t have. In a fast structure, pocket
or Queens are gold dust and you can get into the mentality of not letting them go because "this is the best spot I"ll find". Morls played the situation and not his cards. Furthermore, i reckon he shoved his chips in with much much worse
Annette_15 has won this tourney. She also won a 180 player $4 SNG where she didn"t look at her hole cards. In both tourneys she would have got super lucky but I bet all decisions were good mathematical ones that gave her the edge over the rest.
This is THE best valoo tourney in online poker for us amateurs. If anyone here, gets to the FT then post your secret, because you need a little bit more than good luck to get there. Great effort from Zanshin