Hey, and welcome!
Glad to hear you did good trying something new, aggressive play is more fun than just folding. Nash's guide isn't set in stone, it's just a great strategy for beginners who want to be able to beat the lower limit games. A lot of people also have success playing aggresively from the start, but that style of play requires great postflop skill and not to mention a good understanding of the current table conditions.

If I am to add some constructive advice in the reply to what I realize wasn't even a question, it's gonna be this: Try analyzing what you did well and where you got lucky. You seem a bit results orientated. Maybe an aggresive approach works for you, but don't base it on that one win. Or change your style because of a bad night for that matter. Your 45 SnG's are just too few to say something whether your strategy is working or not.

Anyways, GL!

I couldn't agree more Oyvin.

I am still very much in the learning stage and make a lot of mistakes. When I first started I read a ton of books and online articles and forums and I was so caught up in charts and graphs and what not that playing was stressful and sometimes not fun.

So I took about 6 months off and started again. Now I know how to play and the theory behind it, I just need to figure out what works well for me and learn by playing. Last night was a good learning experience from the three early losses where I played horrible to the first place finish on the last table.

One thing i would like to ask though. Is there a good article to read on how to analyze your SnG's in Poker Tracker? Most articles seem to focus on the ring games and I am not sure if that translates to SnG's or not.

Thanks again.

-Jim

While just beginning, playing the way you described is a mistake because all you're doing is reinforcing bad habits. It is a trap that many beginners fall into because it is very easy to play that way. however playing winning poker is about discipline ;making the right decisions over and over again even if you lose. you have experienced some positive variance and even though you say it is not ur normal game its very hard not to play that way when it has won for you in the past.
I don't really know anything about you, but i will tell you this, unless you have 500+ sng's under your belt you are not experienced enough to play this way. In 2-3 weeks (if that long) you will begin losing... badly, you will tilt and play even worst. you will be lucky to come away with anything left of your bankroll.

my 2c... take or leave it.

As to poker tracker i use it to review my handhistories by replaying them, i perfer seeing the hands played out rather than reading through the hh manually. this way you can also take notes on things you didnt observe during the game and export them to Pokerstars or where ever you play.

what you want to do when replaying the tourny is to chk the "show known hole hands box". then when you are in a hand that goes to show down you can you can use a program suchas pokerstove to chck the equity of your hand vs. villian's. note the way you played the hand on every street, how villian played it, chk for odds... etc etc. if you were unsure doing any point of the hand you should post it in the forum for a line chk whether you won or lost.

gl

I don't think the strategy posted here is the optimal, it's just very good, especially considered how easy it is to employ. The optimal strategy is probably super-LAG style but takes a huge amount of skill to pull off correctly (I know I can't). The super-elite are pretty much all super-LAG's. Daniel N, Phil Ivey etc etc.