Hi Kruppy, Welcome to TPE!

I used to grind these a tone and have had some good success 30% avg. ROI.

Firstly in the early phase I'd forget limping those suited connectors although I don't hate it when you start grinding 8+ tables at once you'll find it easier just to fold and will probably more +EV. Also, if your read is the table is passive wouldn't it be best to min raise your suited connectors? Anyway…

As you say the blinds catch up with you in the middle portion and you get to a 15BB stack quickly which you rightly say is time to get pushing. I'd recommend watching HITTHEPANDAs 180mans and 45 man vids. There awsome to get a general strategy for playing them. He does some live recordings and some HH reviews. 

Try and get hold of push/fold NASH chart. At those stakes if you follow that you'll gtd to have a +ROI. Exploiting the bubble, so 8 left, is a good time to shove super wide from HJ+. The push/fold chart will also help you understand how wide you can push blind on blind, and how much tighter you have to be in early position. At 4/5M It even starts to make you play those suited connectors again

Hope that helps a bit. PM me if you want any more of my views. GL!

So if you post specific hands people will be able to help. So next spot your not sure about stick it on the forum. Or if you can look back on HH of a tourny u know that’s happened and post it.

So it depends so much on different variables about ur should you b risking it question. For instance you wouldn’t want to call off your stack or large % with 33 in CO from an early shove. But you would shove 33 if folded to you. But you have to take your 50/50s most of the time in these, if you’ve lost a few don’t lose heart it just means you are due to win some and it all evens up in the end.

My general rule was I’d get it in with any pair 33+ with 10bbs or less.

I wouldn’t focus on avg. chip stacks either. Just work off BBs. 20BB+ is loads of chips in these. 10bb is plenty 5bb is short and you need to start gettin it in. So don’t check avg. size every 2 mins. You yo yo massively in these.

Also try shoving any two UTG with 5bb – It’s a dirty little trick. Because once more through the blinds you have no FE and have to go with marginal hands in BB due to odds. But again, it’s situation dependant as u don’t want to do that on the bubble, or when there’s 4 players left. And as my shove fold ranges became better I stopped using it.

Finally!…. To fund MTt buy-ins with $1 sngs, avg good for ROI for 45 man probably 15%…. That’s 15c profit per game. 10 games to fund a $1.1 MTt. Get good at these then progress to 180 man turbos, or build you roll
So u can move up stacks in 45 mans… The standard isn’t too different. It takes time tho!! 50-100 buy ins required for correct roll.

Keep practicing!! Load up 4 at a time and play them until all finished then load another 4 until u start to win then u can load more and more up.

Gl dude