LOL Razzaments (been reading BBV =\ )

[SGspecial]

Sounds like you're noticing a lot of the important factors in these tourneys. Once you get into the 3rd hour all the stacks get short except for the top of the leaderboard or otherwise the events would take 7 hrs to play instead of 5 (or whatever). As you noted tho, there aren't a lot of multiway megajammed pots at this stage so you can get away from some hands without being pot committed but at some point you may get short enough to just look for a spot to limipush.

[RustyBrooks]

You might also want to try some double stacked tournaments. Pokerstars has a $10 every evening that's nice, with 15 minute levels. Really you have the same problems except that instead of hour 1, hour 2, hour 3, it's like hours 1-2, hours 2-3.5 and hours 3.5-5 or so.

There's a little more room in the early levels though, which is good. Your bad opponents still will play too fast but you can be a little more patient with them.