Ok, repeat after me.
Anytime I play poker...
I'm subject to taking a bad beat.
SNGs really punish players who aren't concentrating, esp when the blinds are low. If you gamble with a hand that needs improvement when there are 5 or more players left, you are more subject to taking a bad beat than when there are only 4 or fewer left, and more so if they blinds are not worth taking.
If the blinds were 25/50 and you were on the bubble, then this was one laggy table, to be sure. I'm often seeing 8 left with blinds at 75/150. Once upon a time--in the old days--you would see 4 left with the blinds at 30/60. Those were wild. Not so much anymore.
Playing a $50 SNG for the fun of it would be, to me, like playing a ring game with a 65% VP$iP! A $5? Now donk it up all you want and maybe you'll get lucky.
"Are the players better as the stakes go up? It's not an exam; it's a buyin." Barry Tanenbaum