Record Breaker Strategy.....

Okey then ...

Are we better off sitting and waiting for some good cards?

Or playing alot of cheap flops with moderate hands?

Or ....... ?

If the structure is favorable, I vote a lot of cheap flops, and then suck the chips off people's faces. There's going to be fish far as the eye can see.

In a tournament I like to see alot of cheap flops for the first two blind levels then play tight. The early blind levels are so low it's not worth winning but you could flop a "sleeper" and win a stack.

Definite agree here. Sit out the first 5 hands and wait for the all-in donks to finish up, observe the people at your table. I'm going to play my typical poker style (similar to Negreanu's SmallBall) unless the table's got a calling station. In which case I'll limp alot of flops for the first 2-3 blind levels.

AA/KK + all-in donks = +EV

Why waste that?

Well obviously if you hit AA/KK in the first 5 hands, play em. But I'm not playing the first 5 hands with suff like QJo/s, K9o/s, KJo. I'll end up posting min bet and get forced all in.

I'm not playing stuff like that ever, at least not until I'm down to about 10bb.

Early stages limping things like pp's and sc's is fine as long as the rest of the table is kosher with limping.

I'd recommend staying completely away from broadways, because all they're going to do is get you into tough spots when you don't have to do that to yourself.

QQ+ and AK = Gold
AQ-AJ is kinda shaky along with JJ

22-TT and SC's are good for those cheap flops

I'd call the broadways and A's with 2-T trouble, likely to get into marginal spots.

The rest just trash

(Disclaimer: I'm not some sick tourny pro)

Personally I don't think the stacks are anywhere near deep enough to consider playing Small Ball approach.

In the RecordBreaker tourney..... I figure you're going to see a record number of donks (more so than usual in a typcial $5 mtt.. which is ALOT). Personally I will play very tight for the first hour and when I do have a hand in early levels I will raise up a bit more than what I would typically raise in a higher buyin.
My guess is that the play will be so poor that you will be able to just sit there playing 10%- and still get paid off on monsters.
I won't be putting much thought into this tourney, instead it'll be shrunken down to the smallest I can make it and will shuffle it off into the corner of my screen, probably overlapped by another tourney. I've got a feeling this one is gonna be painful.. ha ha.. so... no expectations for me. KO'ing a pro or having the oppurtunity to play on the same table as someone like Allen Cunningham would be kinda cool though.

GL to all who play!

if the game has alot of callers preflop with no raises constantly then i will play alot of hands looking to get lucky