Great thread, very illuminating.

I took AOK's suggestion and went back and looked at all the hands I played pre-flop in a SNG I played yesterday. I thought I had been playing tight-aggressive. Instead, I played way, way too loose and just got lucky a lot. I called in late position or the blinds with marginal hands and had to fold on the flop. I raised with a lot of junk. I played lots of ragged Aces, and even worse, K-x.

The only thing going for me is that my opponents were playing fairly tight-passive, so some of my big raises induced big folds - when a call or re-raise would have put me in some really difficult situations. Also, I did manage to lay down some low pocket pairs that I would have got killed on had I played them.

In fact, out of the 50 hands I participated in, only 20 were one of AOK's suggested 19 starting NL hands! Of those 20 hands, four times I held pocket Queens.

Where's my corset? Time to tighten up!!!