Successful SnG players:Are you usually short stacked when in the $?

[Cosimo]

A couple quick points. One is that 16 SNGs is a tiny sample. The other is that 66 vs AK is a coinflip; it's not a bad beat.

I'll limp with a few more hands (mostly Axs) than the guide suggests in the first round, or in the second round from the BB. I'm trying this out to see what happens, so I don't suggest it. Sometimes I get lucky (which means 150% of my original stack going into level 4), sometimes I get very unlucky (50% of my stack due to a great hand gone wrong).