I know the standard strategy early on is to limp with small pairs in EP attempting to hit a flop cheaply, and folding to raises pre-flop but in sensible freeze tournaments recently I decided on something different, in part because the last time I tripped up on a flop Reagan was president and I thought I was getting a table image of being weak passive by limping and then folding to any bet on a flop I'd missed, my play until recently not being at the level of calling bets to take the pot away later with nothing
I raised 3x BB with any pair between 55 and 99 in EP, representing far stronger than I was. Occasionally of course I was folding to a re-raiser but when I get to see a flop usually acting first I would bet out on any raisers flop and try to see free cards on any rag flop.
Results were generally positive, particularly by betting out representing A or K etc
Later on wth <10xbb and you pick up any pair between 22 and 99 I find it very difficult not just to take my shot on what I hope will be a coin flip
Tighty- a visionary even back then