[Hauser_III]

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One thing though. The play a lot of 'shaky' draws early advice ... that can't be right.

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I think it is right. I'm the absolute master of finishing in the money, but out of the final table, in MTT stud tourneys, and I'd say the primary reason is that I'm just too damn tight. I can switch between tight aggressive and loose aggressive all day in stud8 SNG's, but put me in a stud high MTT, and I go rock. I've thought about where I could improve my results, and one of the areas is playing more drawing hands earlier in the tourney. People are typically playing fast and pushing top pairs and other hands that can easily get caught. If you play a few more drawing hands---or even better, play your normal types of drawing hands, but take off one more card than you usually would---you're not costing yourself that many chips at the early levels, and your implied odds in most pots you're in will be huge if you complete your draw. What it boils down to is that you might be facing a call that in a ring game is slightly, or even more than slightly, incorrect based on pot odds and even implied odds, but that ring game calculation doesn't factor in the tournament value of chips, of building a big stack early and being able to manipulate a table because of the stack, and of being able to absorb chip losses without being crippled.

And I'm still chuckling about the injection points....