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Thank you very much for this.

I just played my first MTT and came around 57 out of 1900. This technique really did the trick. Being able to look at the tourney lobby and realise just how quickly people are kicking themselves out, while all I'm doing is basically sitting and letting them, with a couple of jumps in when I'm in the box seat was so easy. Any time I felt I was going too slow or something, I'd just check how many more people have dropped out while I'm still sitting around average stack size.

Even once I got ITM (top 270), I didnt have to do much more. Stole a couple blinds (got lucky on one where I got called on it and flopped a lucky pair) when it looked good or I needed to up my stack, and played some decent hands a bit more aggressively, but again getting about 4x buyin mainly consisted of letting other people knock themselves out more than any great play on my behalf.

Eventually dumped out on a KK pre-flop push where I got called by AJ and both got paired on the flop.