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In addition to some of the other good replies below:

- Player who don't adapt to changing conditions. For example, two players get busted from a full table and it is now 8 handed instead of 10. If you're not making instantaneous adjustments for the smaller table, then you're giving up something to the other players.

- Players who don't play well short handed. In two of my MTT wins, I've started the FT in 10th out of 10. I won not so much because I got better cards or might be a better player overall, but rather because I adjusted better when the table got more and more short handed.

- Once in to the money, players who don't adjust when the blinds get really big. For example, a player might be in 5th place at the FT with 30K chips, and feel he or she is in a good spot. But the player doesn't adjust for the blinds/antes being 1K/2K/100 and realize that they are close to being short stacked.