Speaking of patience, I just played my longest STT so far, it took almost an hour and a half and 255 hands. Once it got 4 handed I was stuck with 3 of the tightest, weakest players I've ever faced.

Just stealing once per orbit (average), I was getting enough walks to steadily accumulate chips without ever seeing a flop. I was raising 2.5bb but minraise would prolly have been just as effective. What makes it worse is I wasn't truly stealing that much - I had the sickest run of cards to never see a flop ever, including AA 5 times (one of which made it to the river early in the SnG, the other 4 later just got the blinds).

Villains were great at surviving but horribad at winning, even so it was a real lesson in patience. There were a few spots where I could have called and flipped, but the steals were so super profitable I didn't feel the need to until I'd bullied their stacks down far enough.

Not sure how much time I'll have for poker over the next 8 weeks.