It does make sense it was very helpful thanks. I'll bear in mind your advice. It was very interesting to learn about m, and I hadn't come accross that concept before - but it makes a lot of sense and will be useful to bear in mind in future.

So if I can't withstand 10 blinds and have a 8-8 or higher pre flop I should go all in.

Also would you mind answering this... I held my time at the start of the tournament but was soon conscious that everyone else had nearly doubly my chips, and eventually got Q K pre flop and decided to go all in, I was down on chips and thought with a table of about six had a decent chance of getting somewhere.

I did win the hand and got a boost of 6k from 1.9k which was great.

But (1) was that a good hand to go all in pre flop, and (2) should I have been influenced (as I was) by the fact that almost everyone had double my chips?

Thanks again