[Punker]

Comments are appreciated...I would say that winning any tournament of this kind of size does pretty much require at least an element of "perfect day"-ness, and no doubt I had my share of good luck.

As for playing aggressively early, I tend to assume most players at the start of events such as this who limp in to be weak, and I am not shy about trying to punish them for it. 100 chips may not be much, but at the start of the tourney, its still 10% of your stack. I'm not going to put my stack on the line with no hand chasing those 100 chips, but I'm not going to hesitate in fighting for them. Its those 100 chips that allow you to survive that bad beat at the start and still have a few hundred left, or that have you covering other people, making them less likely to play against you.