How to?

This isn't a whine, and I'm not complaining I'm unlucky or anything, it's just a genuine question: What do you do if you get 50 or so non-playable hands in a row and you're on your way to being blinded out. Start playing dirt hands and abuse your now "tight" reputation? That's what I normally try but most players at micro stakes are calling stations and you couldn't steal blinds if your life depended on it.. So, what's the "standard" strategy here?

Thanks, Jude.

EDIT: In fact, it doesn't even matter if the tourneys are turbo or not, how do you survive runs of bad cards in any format tourney?

EDIT2: Speak of the devil, the above just happened minutes after I wrote this message. I'll use it as an example. Folded the first 26 hands of a tournament, then on the 27th I got dealt TQo which was probably the best I'd had so far, raised 3BB on the button and the BB reraised all in so I folded. Minutes later I got 88 and shoved, held up against 66 which boosted my stack to a massive 7BB. Finally, got dealt 77 on the BB and shoved, the SB who completed called with A9o and I'm out (funnily enough I came 12th out of 45, people seemed to go out really really fast - by the time I played my first hand more than half the people of the tourney were out). What should I have done differently?

I got dealt TQo which is by far the best I'd had so far, raised 3BB on the button and the BB reraised all in so I folded.

Am I therefore correct I thinking that you bet over a 1/4 of your stack then folded?

This means you will lose money, don't do that, watch some videos of the fundimentals.

Sorry I am unable to explain this better.

Originally Posted by 22Fish

I got dealt TQo which is by far the best I'd had so far, raised 3BB on the button and the BB reraised all in so I folded.

Am I therefore correct I thinking that you bet over a 1/4 of your stack then folded?

This means you will lose money, don't do that, watch some videos of the fundimentals.

Sorry I am unable to explain this better.

I was hoping to steal, and didn't really think I had anything beat with TQo. However, I take your advice on board, and I guess it is a shove or fold situation, but you could have said it without being so condescending :\ So, TQo on the button.. which is it, shove or fold?

Shove, and the post was really trying not to be condisending, it was typed very quickly and with a poor choice of words.

Apologies.

Ok, no problem, thanks for the advice.

Are you talking about Sng or MTT? If SNG how many players and what limits?

SNG MTTs, micro stakes, 50-100 players.

You play the 3.3$ 90mans on FTP then?