Patience and looking for spots is key. I played an MTT the other day and literally for the first hour I did not get a single hand, and the hands I did win were because I was in the big blind and everyone folded to me. But I remained patient, and remembered the lessons I have learned and I also took solace in the fact that sometimes you are not going to get any hands but that there will always be tournaments. Anyway, after the first hour I got a couple hands and then it picked up from there and the next thing I know I finished in 7th place, and should have finished higher but my Aces got coolered by the same player who had coolered my Aces in another tournament. I actually think I'm jinxed when I play this player because as I write this I got knocked out of a tournament today by, guess who, the same player. Oh well. On I will continue.