15th place money in this tourney is def not worth cashing out(or worth the money from the cashout). In these tournaments they automatically give a cash % of your chips when u reach the ft. So this is the most important time in the tourny cause essentially every blind is worth cash! Try and find a spot where u can three bet shove until u have over 30 bb's then research the bigdog opening late in tourny's( open alot of pots and c-bet) taking advantage of guys who just wanna make a money jump. The final two tables in a cashout tourny are def the key spot in the tourny, If u made it this far your gonna wanna go for the win. If u wanna play mtt's you have to be winning them and not just placing. I think cashing out the original tourney buy in is awesome and this should offset your timidness should you not make the ft. Hope i could b of assistence. tpe crushing the online world! ttys

I busted a short time after this post.  lol.

Ya the most optimal way to play a cashout tourney is to not cash out…..The FT bubble is going to be a lot bigger then a normal tourney cause the cashout prize pool gets distributed then so cashout tourneys favor the better players who are able to take advantage of FT bubble and give themselves a chance at a much higher payday then the normal buyin for that level of tourney since so much more of the prizepool is distributed to final table based on stacks.

I still don't recommend it.  I just can't imagine it being worth it.  I remember seeing someone work out the math involved  and I don't think it's really ever +ev to cash out.  Basically your starting stack becomes worth 1/2 the buy-in immediately.  Sure you can cash out for a profit, but you're costing yourself a ton of equity by removing yourself from the tournament/taking chips away from your stack.