There is a £100+10 live tournament with a £10,000 guarantee that I won a satellite to and I have a question about the early levels of the tournament.

So the levels are 25 minutes long and the starting stack is 20,000 + 2000 for registering before the day. Before the first break the levels are:

25/50 = 440BB
50/100 = 220BB
100/200 = 110BB
150/300 = 73BB
200/400 = 55BB

So the first 2 levels are going to be with very deep average stacks making it profitable to play speculative hands in position because of the implied odds.

But my question is do the shortness of the levels make it a better idea to play more speculative hands, less speculative hands or the same amount as an identical tourney with longer levels?

I can think of arguments for each case:

- more speculative hands. You only have 50 minutes of play where the average stack is >200BB. You should make the most of this time and play a lot of speculative hands in position.

- less speculative hands. In a couple of hours you will be playing a tournament with very shallow average stacks. Don't spew chips in the early levels by playing lots of speculative hands, thus making your stack even shallower.

- the same amount of speculative hands. Level length doesn't come into it. Just play appropriate poker for the stack sizes right now. Adjust your play when the average stack size changes, not pre-emptively.

Please help. Thank You.