Starting Strategy

I wrote this down after i heard an interview with a hyper aggressive internet player. First I dismissed it but now i am thinking that I may have to try this approach (mentally I will have to accept a higher variance).
What do you think?
Early On Strategy- My goal, really, in tournaments is to double up or triple up in the first couple of levels to have more chips than anyone else so that I have a distinct advantage starting off. This is kind of my mindset, and I know that it’s probably not a widely accepted theory, but I think it gives me a huge edge to become the chip leader to get tons of chips to be able to knock out the smaller stacks as they become desperate and the blinds go up. And I can just keep chipping up, chipping up, chipping up, and putting myself in good shape. And then, down the road, when I have 20K and the other guy has 5K or 6K, I can lose that big race, A-K to queens, and still be in the tournament with a ton of chips. A lot of guys, if they play a lot tighter and only play their cards, they get into a big race where both players have 5K and they get knocked out because of losing a coin flip. My style has very high variance for me to be able to accumulate the chips, but once I get the chips, it actually reduces my variance down the road in the tournament.

Actually you didn't need to write it down, it's here:
http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/article/4357/online-poker-interview-with-nick-fu-15-maimone

The bit that you "wrote down" is just after this bit

SPG: Well, that brings up an interesting point. You’re talking about how early in tournaments you like to play looser and then later you like to play tighter, but how do you use your philosophy towards poker tournaments with a structure like that?

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Caught? How? OP says he heard it in an interview.

I apologize, I thought he was writing down HIS thoughts after hearing the interview. I apologize for beign a @#%&

I like the concept for various reasons. Firstly, if I am going out of a tournament I would prefer it to be when I have invested ten minutes of my life, rather than hours. Secondly, if everyone at the table is convinced that I am a loose player, I am more likely to cash in when I have monster hands.

Sadly I don't have enough confidence in my poker abilities (yet) to have actually put it into practice, but I am going to try it out in a few freerolls first and see what happens.

My earlier post wasn't intended to insult the OP, by the way, I was just giving people the opportunity to read the interview in full, should they so desire. Hope that no offence was caused, as that was not my intention!

Whats the guarantee you're going to chip up to 20k against the 5k's playing a looser game...You're going to be similar to any other donk playing at the level and others are tight , you're going to end up loosing your mediocre hands most of the time..its folly i think

There are pros and cons, as always. I have played freerolls where I have come out way to strong first few hands, and it has payed off big time when I have picked up aces, and gotten payed. But you end up l

Sry, just picked up aces, so lost concentration on what I was writing . But you get the general idea, dont get caught up in thinking that one style is always right, cause it never is.

You may build up chips quickly, but you will also lose them quickly...best is to play premium hands, be patient, don't get married.