Live final, slow blinds, deep stack

[AJ]

I've been playing in a poker league for a while now, it's the grand final on Saturday. There are 5 venues, they each put their top ten players into the final. Winner takes a prize valued at $5k, there is no second place prize. I'm not that stressed about the standard, I know I'm one of the better players there, I was the top money winner at my venue. What I'm wondering about is how do I adapt my game to the different structure. We normally start with 1500 chips and 25/50 blinds, blinds double every 20 mins. You normally get about one lap of the table on each blind, with a full table. In the final we're starting off with 5000 chips and 40 minute blind levels. I'm not that sure how to adapt my game to this; in the normal games, you need to play fairly quickly, certainly you need to win a decent pot in the first three levels or you're down over a third of your stack in blinds alone. If you play a big hand and lose, you're in trouble. In online terms it's closer to a turbo. For the live game, I'm picking that people will be really tight at the start, no one will want to go out first, it's taken 16 weeks to make the final. I was thinking about setting a quarter of my chips aside at the start, and use them as a stick and play super agressive, first level or two and try and chip build. Advice please

[slick mick]

Re: Live final, slow blinds, deep stack I would see how other people are playing. You may find that because they're used to the turbo format they'll keep playing that way in which case the best option would be patience during the first few levels, only playing big hands or limping with drawing hands, then change gears to take advantage of your tight image. IMO it's always a good plan to take advantage of a deep structure by playing tight to start with and gather info on your opponents.