[Pumpy Tudors]

Without seeing full hand histories, it's hard to give complete advice, but I've noticed a trend in some of these later tournaments. You're getting all your chips in during the early levels.

Tournament #9, you're pushing all your chips in with the blinds at 20/40. I know KK looks like an unbeatable hand with a 2-5-6 flop and only one opponent with you, but it just seemed like an act of desperation to go all-in. I agree that you got unlucky in this case, and you were probably going to lose a lot of chips anyway on that hand, but it's just part of the running theme that I'm addressing here.

Tournament #10, I'm dying to see a hand history for. OK, there's really not much better than getting AA all-in against a lower pair heads-up, but how did it get to that on the 4th hand? When did the majority of the chips go in? Did he push first, or did you? Unless there are a lot of chips in the pot or you seriously have somebody trapped, I don't see many reasonable ways to get somebody all-in on the 4th hand of a SnG. I understand that it happens, but I'm just wondering how it happened this time.

Tournament #11, you flop the nut flush and immediately go all in. You got unlucky here, too, but your opponent with the jacks had been smart, he would have just folded. You were lucky that he called and unlucky that he caught his boat. In a lot of cases, though, your opponent is just going to fold and you're not going to get much value for flopping the nut flush. Later in the tournament, you can make that move when you or your opponents are committed to playing that pot. During the first level, though, you'll usually pick up a very small pot and nothing more. Again, you were unlucky that he caught his boat, but for future reference, I think that there are better ways to get value from a hand like that.