I play in a daily shootout tourney at a local casino average entrants are 120-140 players. unlimited 10$ rebuys first hour, 25$ entry fee, start out with 600 chips, takes about 15k to be in top three at the end of three hours play. payouts for top three around 1000$. My question is this what type of strategy would you employ here? I have played this tourney quite abit finished in the money several times and won it several more. this was with a pretty much aggressive style, with often means a greater investment in rebuys, i very often make the final three tables off just the entry fee, but i feel my game gets off when the blinds are 3k/6k im sitting with about 12-15k deep i feel if i can acquire more chips in the second hour i will better be able to ride the tide of the high blinds longer to catch more hands. Any suggestions would be great thanks.

top 3 ppl out of 120-140 get paid? thats crazy, it should be like the whole final table gets $.

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Blinds of 3k/6k with you having 12-15k chips is what Harrington would call the "dead" zone. You have virtually no options here... you have to push every time you get a decent hand.

If the blind structures are very fast... meaning that towards the end everyone is just 15-20 hands of cold deck towards being out of the tourney... then I have had a lot of success with both laying back early on until blinds get very large, and then playing like a bulldozer to pick up some huge pots... or trying to get a VERY large chips stack early on, and then really throwing it at people as the blinds get large and they tighten up. Either way, once the blinds get big you need to start picking them up at least once every time around the table. You're playing against the blinds more then the players or the cards... so understand that sometimes you're just gonna go bust when you run into big hands, and make the moves you need to keep a decent stack.

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the tourney does pay out 10% meaning 150 ppl means 15 spots but the real money isnt until you get in the top three.