That's likely true -- I read 20 buy-ins is the magic number, and I didn't have the BR to cover that. Also, looking at it another way: I deposited by initial BR, swung up to 100% above my initial deposit, now I'm back down to where I started.

It's possible my decision to focus on the $5.50 1 table SnGs is part of the problem too -- if I'm too tight at an < 6 player table, then that may be a big handicap in these games. Looking at my overall numbers, it looks like games with slower blind structures and more players (meaning more full tables) are games where I'm much more likely to make it into the money. SnG numbers from PokerTracker: 35 games, 1st 5 time, 2nd 3 times, 3rd 4 times.

That's not good enough, I guess.

Rereading HoH wouldn't be a bad idea though.