wow long post.
anyways i can't comment much on this, seeing as i am one of the sufferers in this same uni as ElGod, being part of the same society, and only doing marginally better than ElGod when it comes to weekly live tournaments
like he said, there's about 30% of the players who are really good.
and what i came to see is that of thosee 30%, there are several who ALWAYS seems to have a huge stack after 2-3 rounds of blind level (ie after 1 hour)
i wanna know myself how they do it to be honest...
but i'm guessing it boils down to the fact that they know when to fold better than us (and considering how big their stack is everytime, they probably don't ever go to showdown and lose. they'd probably fold if they knew they were beat.)... and probably know how to extract more chips from the weaker opponents when they have the better hand.
basically, you gotta improve your flop play, which is where it matters most i think.
and try to be a little bit looser than you are... seeing flops cheaply when there are many people in the hand and you have good position...
something like that,
my play is really bad these days as well so i don't really think i shoulda replied to the thread.