| Just curious, when you say it's a tourney with antes, does that mean they are using antes instead of blinds? Or just the normal blinds, but also with antes starting right from the start?
In every game I've played, the blinds have to ante just like everyone else. I have had a couple of people try to argue that point with me though.
When raising, I'd consider all the antes out there as you would when raising a pot with limpers. If you would normally open a pot for 3-4x the BB, you have to adjust that up if there are limpers. Otherwise you are potentially giving them good odds to call even with speculative hands.
From my experience, I've generally only introduced antes later into my blinds schedule. By then, a lot of the speculative play with connectors and gappers is gone. It's too expensive with the high blinds. You'll rarely get enough people in a pot to get the proper odds to play those kind of hands as you normally would. It's one thing to try and steal with them, but playing them to flop a big hand is just not likely enough. You're likely to be playing catch-up with any hadn that does happen to call a steal attempt.  | 
