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I regularly play the $5 11:30 tourneys on Party, which usually draws well over 1500 players. I’m yet to make any singnificant profit, but had a couple of finishes where I squeaked into the money. That’s a pretty horrific hourly rate, so there is undoubtedly someone else better qualified to offer advice.

I tend to play very tight early, and let the maniacs bust out. Within 10 minutes, the field can be down by a 100 players or more. After that, focus on playing sold, tight/aggressive poker, keeping in mind you aren’t playing against 1000 players at once, only against the other nine players at the table, so that is all you need to worry about.

But to finish in top two or three percent with that many players, I think you are simply going to have to win a couple of coin toss hands. There’s not much you can do other than get your money in when you have the best of it, and hope your cards hold up.