New to Single table lovin it

[leykis]

I used to play primarily NL 6max cash games on party. I recently started entering in some multis because I thought it would be fun and I wanted to test my tourney game out and see how I fared. On tuesday I entered a 30+3 multi with 630 entrys and ended up finishing 2nd good for 3 grand. I played some single table tourneys after that and found that I really like the tournament format. I love to play no limit and the tournament format (single table of course) takes some of the variance out of the game when compared to NL cash games. So for the first time I really took an interest in reading some of the posts in the single table forum. I looked at the FAQ sticky and of course saw AleoMagus's guide to beating the 10+1's on party. After reviewing his guide I tried it out last night. I only played 10 10+1's but found that I did pretty well.

ROI=63%

I know the numbers are not statistically meaningful but I and obviously I am not at all dissapointed with the result but I did notice that of the tourneys that I did not cash it seemed to be that I ended up short stacked on the bubble because I literally played maybe one hand in the first 3 levels. So I have two questions. Has anyone had more success at this level by playing a little looser early? And is this formulaic strategy also valid at the 20+2 or 30+3 levels?

Thanks!