Early MTT strategy

[Zybomb]

For those of you MTT players out there ---

In general, during the early stages of a MTT where the blinds are fairly low compare to stack sizes, it seems decent players and up employ one of two strategies

1- Playing extremely tight-aggressive and solid. The reasoning behind this is since the blinds are so low, it gives you even more time to fold fold fold and wait for the big hands to come around without worrying about blinds effecting your chip stack. When you do play, you have a big hand, you play it aggressively and generally take down a very large majority of the pots that you play, be them small or large.

2- Maintain an intelligent preflop strategy in terms of range of hands, but try to see a large amount of flops cheapily. This includes medium and up suited connectors and one gappers, high unsuited connectors, suited aces, any pair, and suited or unsuited broadway cards. Hope to hit big hands and get paid off, if not not worry about folding, as you got in the pot fairly cheap anyway

Which strategy do you employ, which do you feel is more effective and why?

If you employ another type of strategy (or a combination of sorts), feel free to include it