I edited my posts to bold the worst-played hands (and italicize the less poorly played hands). You're right that most of the other suggestions are smaller edges or stylistic differences.

As far as luck, sure you usually need a bit above average luck to final table in a 1000-man field, but that doesn't justify reckless play. I usually final table when I don't get unlucky (and not getting "unlucky" in 3 or 4 60/40s is actually pretty lucky).

Take for example hand 24. If the odds held and you lost that hand, you probably would not have made it very far in this tournament. The only probable hands you could beat on that flop were non heart A10 and AJ. You were a major dog to anything else he likely held.

And hands 27 and 52 were just giving chips away.


Aside from those three terrible hands, the only other truly awful plays came headsup. 143/149/179 were definitely questionable, but not in the same league as the bolded hands.

You also did make some unusually good laydowns too (hands that often break many micro players), so don't take it as all bad. But there is definitely room for improvement before you move up stakes.