Complete Hand Histories available from some recent tournaments.

[Ortho]

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I haven't looked at this, but it looks like it is in the first round, and hero calls off 10% of his stack with a flush draw?

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Yes, this is correct.

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First, he has implied odds if he hits. Second, he may get to see the river for free if he misses. Third, early in a tournament a lot of players (myself included) like to look for spots to pick up a bunch of chips, even if it risks part or all of our stack. The general idea is that the decisions you make later in a tournament are much more important (from a cashing equity stand point) than the ones you make earlier. It is really valuable to have a bigger stack at the later stages since it allows you to steal more effectively, and it allows you to survive losing a hand or two. Therefore, it is better to embrace variance early in order to mitigate it later.

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Yes, he makes several calls in late position with cheap hands and gets lucky on a couple of them and gets some chips. I've only played about 25 of these, but I'm starting to realize that if you have enough chips to be able to actually play poker for a whole hand without it crippling you, the other players are literally going to just hand you chips.

Watching this tournament (and there are two left that I'm really looking forward to) has been the single best learning experience of my short career. I have seen lots of places where he plays that I fold, and I've also noticed that he's keeping his bets a bit smaller than mine in most cases, so that he doesn't get himself stuck. Other than that, once he's in hands, I'm making about the same plays, but I am really impressed by these as a learning tool for me and they are really helping.