Out from the Shadows, a lurker becomes a poster

[acIdREIGN462]

Hi all, I am a new poster who has been playing poker for a couple of years now. I have been playing SNGs on party casually for nearly a year and a half with minimal success. I had figured out to play tight in the early rounds and had run across this site( Theorem of Blind Stealing) which gave me some insight into late game strategy, but I had trouble trusting its applications. Unfortunately I didn't follow the link at the bottom of that page to find 2+2!

I finally did come across this site about 3 months ago and have been reading this forum religiously since. I downloaded Aleo's spreadsheet, started tracking my progress, and began improving my game. I bought a monitor capable of 4 tabling w/ no overlap and slowly got to where I could play 4 10+1s at once confidently. Here is what happened:

$10+1
302 tourneys ITM 41.7% ROI 32.1%
1st 49 16.2%
2nd 40 13.2%
3rd 37 12.3%
4th 34 11.3%
5th 31 10.3%
6th 31 10.3%
7th 34 11.3%
8th 25 8.3%
9th 9 3.0%
10th 12 4.0%

Profit = $1068

WOW I was kicking ass. Unfortunately for my confidence and hourly rate, I decided to move up to the 20+2s where I realized how much of a luckbox I had been:

$20+2
500 tourneys ITM 33.0% ROI 2.2%
1st 62 12.4%
2nd 46 9.2%
3rd 57 11.4%
4th 69 13.8%
5th 74 14.8%
6th 56 11.2%
7th 62 12.4%
8th 35 7.0%
9th 21 4.2%
10th 18 3.6%

Profit = $240

It was profitable so I can't complain but I had hoped for better. I think it was a pretty bad run and that I will do better in my next 500.

So this is where I am in my Party SNG career. I hope to begin getting involved in some of the threads and posting some hands in the near future. I have talked to some 2+2ers at the tables (I played with Karak567 and watched Curtains own some donkeys on a few 215s) and told them "sup bro". I am not asking for any sort of analysis of these results although any insight is appreciated. Mostly I just wanted to introduce myself as I plan to start posting some.

Thanks to all for their contributions to the forum, and may the better half of variance smile upon you all.

AcidReign