Importance of being first: My stats in 20 SNg's - advice please

This is following on Chucks thread. I understand the point. Here is my experience. I am looking for feedback. I recognise that its a very small sample.

I have played 20 x $10 1Speed SNGs ( 10 Player ) since begining of may. I played the first 3 on there own and now tend to multitable an average of 3 tables at the same time on Party Poker.

This is how I have done

First: 3 Times ($150)
Second: 4 Times ($120)
Third: 4 Times ($80)
4th/5h 7 Times
Early bath: 2 Times

Total Stake = $220
Total return = $350
Total Profit = $130

Heres my Strategy. We start with 2000 chips and the blinds go up every 5 mins. For the first 15 Mins (20/40, 30/60 & 50/100) I play very tight. I only play teir 1 and two hands. I raise circa 6xbb if I enter a pot. I find this eleminates small pp's and SC's and I know where I stand. I check my BB or squeeze it.

This means that by the time we get to 100/200 I have either Bust/Doubled up or have about 1750 Chips. At this point I attack with any top 3 teir hand and by the time we get to 200/400 I am all-in with position ( assuming no limpers early on ) picking the opponents BB carefully.

In these later stages I try not to call PF ( unless in BB and odds mean i have to ) and prefer to have the person covered if I am calling. I may call with Ace high depending upon the desparation of the person pushing and my stack size. I find that I can reach the money more often than not by avoiding crashes and attacking on my terms.

Assuming i make the final 3. I am often 2nd or 3rd and there is a chip leader with double my stack. My aim has been to reach the money more often than not and then build from there. The issue with the final 3 is that the blinds are very very high at the stage. IF I have M=4 I am lucky. Everyone has a similar situation - but this gives the chip leader a good advantage as every hand is all-in,fold,fold until Chip leader wakes up with a hand.

I recognise this strategy is not perfect. My game is built on making marginal decision on whether to fold/call/push depending on the opponents circumstance and whether by cards are better than average in the later stages of tnys. Based on this I expect a dry run at some point that may not yet show in my small sample. It does however allow me to play multiple tables.

I think I am going to play 100 of these and then have a go at the some regular format SNG's.

ok.....now to get slaughtered....your comments please.....

Tight early and getting increasingly more aggressive later (esp on the bubble) is pretty much the accepted 'best' style for STTs.

The reason for this is that people generally don't play aggressive or loose enough in the later stages, and you can keep hammering at them without much resistance. The blinds obv hop up to a much bigger size in the later stages, and are worth a much bigger percent of your stack then in the early stages which means that stealing is not only more important, but essential if you want any chance of winning.

Like you said, your sample size is really too small to make any assumptions (so I won't).

My take on turbos if you're interested; I've changed little things since writing this but it's pretty much how I play the $16 turbos on stars.

As long as your consistently turning out a profit I wouldn't worry too much about placing first or second because by the time you get down to the final 3 SnG's are often a crapshoot anyway.

All I would say is, try mixing your play up a bit early on. We all go card dead. Hell I've been card dead for MASSIVE stretches in the past. I am talking being card dead for like 10 tournies. So mixing it up is definately something you should think about.