I have had similar problems and I am working on plugging the leaks in my game, but the biggest piece of advice I can give is if you run into guys at your table who aren’t budging and are stationy, tighten up. Go after them with less marginal hands and don’t bother bluffing into them or trying to make fancy 3-bet maneuvers, they aren’t going to get it and it will only cost you chips. Stationy players should force you into a more ABC Poker style to preserve. If players at your table are tight and you can push them around, then accumulate, otherwise back down a bit and tighten up. Thats my thoughts for what its worth 🙂

FkCoolers has a really great point about early and mid level play, one that has cost me a ton of deep runs and several cashes as well. When you move from a medium stack up to a big stack one of the most important things to remember is how your Fold Equity changes. Something that I have found through a ton of unwanted experiementation is that once you have a big stack, short stacks are just hoping that you are looking to bust you and will try to take more shots at you, hoping that you will liberally call them and give them a double up while being realatively cheap for you. Gotta stop that manuever as fast as you can. By all means with premium holdings go for anyone and everyones stacks, but in your marginal holdings attach medium stacks. They are usually inclined to hang around for a flop and depending on the player and aggression level can float, but a lot of them shrink away when that second barrel fires because the river means serious damage to them. Big stacks I find are screwy to play against and albeit tempting targets should be managed with caution. A lot of times in low buy in tournements I find that big stacks turn guys into Calling Stations for no other reason than they think they can afford the hit. Unfortunetly that hurts your ability to play and to try to move them off hands.