With the 22 hand I think you are trying way to hard to find a way to win a hand you are "not supposed to win". You are already winning the hand on almost all run outs. At best your opponent has 4 outs if he has A4s, 2 outs if he has a pocket pair or needs runner runner. Therefore, it's totally fine to lose the hand in the very, very rare situations when the board does run out bad, which in this case really only is a 4 or if it comes like A A. I did make the ft, finished 8th. Think I made a mistake on the first hand of the ft that lead to me being short and busting out soon after. I had KQo in the BB with like 22bbs. There was a limp from early position (from a guy who had been limp folding a lot) and a call. I made it 5x. The first limper folded and the other guy called. The flop was 3 low cards. I cbet very small and the guy jammed all in. My thinking had been I was gonna play aggro because the payout structure seemed flat to me. But because of ICM and, more importantly, because I and one other guy who had a similar stack were playing for the online qualifer UO package I should have taken the lower variance route and just checked back. What do you think? I hardly ever play tournaments so I can't really comment on the structure and these are the only live tournaments I've ever played. But the structure probably is a bit too fast. It feels like you go from being comfortable to being short too quickly by being card dead for a level or 2 or by losing a medium sized pot. So yeah, a bit slower would be better. Also, having such a huge ante when you play 5 / 6 / 7 handed seems a bit weird.