Do I need to loosen up

Played in an $11 + $1 tourney last night on PS.

Over 600+ entrants. Money paid down to 65th

Finished 27th and had a look at my stats

hands dealt 218, played 37 (17%)

Played very TAG, normal for me, but wondering if I should play more marginal hands, eg K9 etc etc??????

post some HH of hands you think you should've played. if you dont keep & look over HH after a tourney that you placed deep in, then your primary concern shouldnt be the % of hands you played in the tourney but why you are throwing money away by being so careless in your home business of poker .

Not sure what you mean here

if you are playing it for fun then dont bother with hh. but revisiting troubling hands in study mode is as important as playing them.

Your question is completely situational...if you've been sitting at a very LAG table, that's perfectly acceptable.

Like joose said, post some HHs where you think you might have benefited from playing a little looser and of course you'll get opinions from all the HA rats.

As Chuck said, it's situational.

You don't necessarily want to look at it from a 'should I play more types of hands' perspective, but more like 'i should, where possible, identify favourable situations (either in general or in a specific hand), and loosen/tighten up accordingly'.

Stats like "I played x% of my hands in an MTT" are invariably meaningless.