[johnnybeef]

Wow, I am surprised at all of the awful advice in this thread. I play in probably 10 sngs a day in which I slow down on the bubble hoping to cash. While this virturally never happens when I have the big stack, there are a ton of times that the stack positions and sizes dictate that you throw away a hand that you would normally shove under slightly different circumstance. In short, deue to the payout structure in sngs (and more importantly the huge jump between 4th and 3rd) there are many times in which playing to cash is the best strategy. While these situations may not be extremely obvious at first, start paying visceral attention to the stack sizes and positions and with time, it will become second nature.