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Push fairly tight from early position,

Push fairly tight from early position, even with a short stack. If you have a 15BB stack, I suggest you raise every hand you are going to play to 2.25BBs. I usually raise only premium hands from early position because you have to worry about the entire table picking up a hand. However, you do want to always have a few bluffs in your range, so I raise with hands like good suited connectors from early position to balance my range. If someone does call, at least you will have a hand that flops well. With 15BBs I will open-raise something like 6-6+, A-J+, K-Q and suited connectors. Notice how tight this range is. Most players will push all their fairly strong hands, so you need to have a stronger hand than their range on average. If you are re-raised, get in with all hands except the suited connectors, smaller pairs and K-Q.

From early position with around 10BBs,

From early position with around 10BBs, I start pushing every hand I am going to play. If you raise a weak hand to 2.25BBs and someone pushes, you will be getting around 1.5-to-1, meaning you will have to make a tough decision. I avoid these spots altogether and just shove. From early position with 10BBs, you should be pushing something like A-10+, 5-5+, K-J+, and high suited connectors. If you somehow dip down to 6BBs, which you should avoid at all costs, you can push a very wide range from early position because if the blinds fold and one player in the middle calls, you will be getting around 2-to-1 on any hand. Since most hands have 33-percent equity against everything, you can push a wide range. I would push 2-2+, A-2+, K-8+, Q-9+, J-9+, suited connectors and two suited cards higher than 7. This may appear insane, but remember, once you get this low, you risk blinding out, which is one of the worst things you can do in a tournament because you turn a stack with some equity into a stack with no equity while giving yourself no chance to gather chips.