So I played my first live tournament last night in a local casino. £100 buy in which ended up with about a £2000 overlay which wasn't too bad. 

I wasn't really sure what to expect, the table talk gave the impression that most guys played cash and tournaments all around the local area. It soon became apparent that the early levels involved everyone trying to see a flop with whatever they happened to be dealt. It wasn't uncommon to see 95,84 etc. hit a winning 2pair. I was also pretty amazed at how quickly the other players were figuring out how much to bet on each street as the action was pretty fast and the pots pretty big. After about half an hour I realised they had no concept of pot odds at all and were just betting whatever they felt like. I was pretty surprised that guys who seemed to play so much poker seemed to never even have picked up a book on the subject.

I played a pretty tight aggressive game to counter it which worked well and seem to completely confuse some of the regs. Shoving AKs for 22BB over a 3x open and a call raised a lot of eyebrows and comments on my odd play. Apparently I should have flat called and wait for a better hand to shove with.... Hmmm. (I was called and lost to J8 which flopped a straight obviously)

From then on every time I played I got a bit of banter about having AK which allowed me to trap a few people with AA and eventually busted when I shoved for 13BB with AQs and the villain tanked for a good 4 minutes before calling with JJ. I felt a bit slowrolled but everyone at the table seemed to have a bit of sympathy for him having to make such a tough decision. 

I'm just interested to know if anyone has any tips for playing in these sorts of tournaments? I felt like my TAG game gave me a huge edge. I also wonder is it like this all over the world or is the British game just that far behind?