Here's the thing. you sound like a fairly new player, what you are doing is trying to see too many hands with the blinds that big. You see when you are that deep into the tournament you cannot see many flops. What you want to be doing is if you decide to play a hand in that stage of the tournament you should be raising big preflop. That is why your chips seems to dwindle, tournament poker is all about variation in your game, such as when people are on the bubble of the money and you are buying pots, as soon as you get in the money you have to change gears because you wont be able to buy a pot as easily.When you are watching the WSOP and WPT on TV that is not usually how poker players play, those are just highlight hands. Next time you are at a late stage in the tournament in the money with huge blinds, try to see less flops but you have to manage to steal the blinds. Wait for good hands or if you have position on the person try to steal the blinds. At the later stages you can give a nice 4x bb raise with almost anything and take the blinds down.I guess the point im trying to get across is there is a big difference in being loose and being aggressive. The problem with most new players is they are overly loose and overly aggressive and are too afraid to give up a hand. If you know you are beat you should fold the hand. I see WAY TOO MANY players continue to bet when it is obvious the opponent is not going to fold.