I agree with your analysis Cactus, although last night I played a $22 and it was like old times, when we were down to 5 players by 60/120. I ended up in 3rd because it was one of those games where one guy just blew it up and was up to like $7000 in chips early on. Two other guys had really short stacks and I just hung in there with my paltry $1100 in chips and made it ITM. Not proud of it, but sometimes you have to take what the cards give you.

I definitely agree with you about the heads up thing, and your 80% win rate is to die for. I'm much worse than that, but I've been working on it and its improved.

One thing I've noticed about the $22s and the one $33 I played (great sample size, right, lol) is that you've got a lot more players trying to be cute and semibluffing when a third flush card hits and such. I'm reminding myself to play straight up, because I've seen several people get cute with aces and kings and get jacked up by their slow play.

I think that the real reason for the differential in levels at FTP is the number of players. There has been a spike of late, up to as many as 8000 in peak times (it was maybe 6000 two months ago. The $5.50 SNGs fire up immediately, as do the $11s. The $22s take a wee bit longer and the $33s a little longer than that. The $55s and $109s go off less frequently. My analysis is that as my bankroll grows to play through $55s (hopefully next year at some point), I'm going to have to play PokerStars or UB to get more action. The weird thing though, is that people love the MTTs on FTP because you get to play with pros. They put notice out that Chris Ferguson or someone is playing in a $109 MTT and watch 200 people fire it up.

I really like the site though. In O8 games, I actually get to know a lot of the players and chat it up real friendly. Kind of a community. One other thing that's cool is they have a site that tracks MTT leaders called www.FTPfan.com that is pretty neat. Check it out and sign up when you aren't looking at BTP. You can see my crappy stats by looking for my screen name on FTP berlin32.

PS, what's your screen name so I can look for ya?