Play more hands or fewer?

[davidross]

Does anyone know what percentage of hands they play intourneys compared to live play?

I ask because I suspect I'm not playing enough hands. Typically when I get into the late middle stages of tournaments (which is usually as far as I get) I check my percentages and I'm seeing about 10% of the flops outside of the blinds, and 14 or 15 % including the blinds. I'm also only winning 6-7% of the hands dealt.

I play more hands early when the stacks are deep, and usually build my stack nicely, although this is probably due to the bad play of the early losers rather than playing a lot of hands. It just seems to me that the times I do well it is more likely to be because the flop hit my less than premium hand rather than my AA or KK hands holding up.

I'm wondering if I should be open raising more often with hands I would muck in a ring game, prepared of course to fold to a re-raise. I mean hands like QJ in MP or A7s. KQ in EP or even baby pairs late. All of those I'm folding right now.

Comments?