live single table tourney crapshoot?

[ToeKnee 0]

Hey guys, I was wondering what you guys think about this tourney I'm planning on playing in. It's a $30 buy in 12 person single table tourney at my local charity casino. So far, from observing the other tourneys, the play is mostly sub par, just the low limit players trying to get lucky and hit a big score, so I think i could take a few down. Here's the catch though, you get 1000 in chips, but the blinds start at 25 and 50 and going up every 15 minutes! That is only 20x the big blind to start with, What!?! Would this make it a crapshoot? I mean your kinda forced to pick up a hand real quick or risk getting short stacked. So really my question is what kind of strategy should I be taking into one of these? I'm thinking if I try to wait for a hand i'm not gonna have much to be agressive with, and if I try to make a move on a pot I'm gonna have to risk half my stack just to put adiquite (yeah it's spelled wrong) pressure on my opponents. Any thoughts?Toe-Knee