it seems that with the increase in popularity of poker, more and more local clubs are featuring weekly tournaments (about 40 players with final 16 getting payed).

but the thing is, the starting number of chips compared to the blinds has a m of 20, with blinds doubling once every 15 minutes, the game has turned into push or fold poker. A full table is 8 players btw, so that means you take more blinds than usual as well.

structure: 1500 starting chip
blinds at 25/50, 50/100, 75/150, 100/200, 200/400, 300/600, 500/1000, 1000/2000, 1500/3000, 2000/4000, 2500/5000, 3000/6000, 5000/10000 ... etc?
at the start of the 100/200 blinds, every gets chipped up and an additional 1000 chips is given to everyone.

the standards of play has fallen drastically due to the influx of new players with an average of 4-6 players limping into the pot at a any given time. due to this, a decent raise of 4 times to BB at late position would not chase out any players due to the good pot odds. Any higher raise would put too big of a dent in your chips and you would be better off with an all in. Bluffs rarely ever work with players being more than happy to call to the river with a medium pair with 2 overcards on the board. flopping a good hand betting for maximum value (perhaps even overbets) would always get payed off, but the structure of the blinds would mean that playing too tight would get you blinded out very quickly. playing looser would eat up your chip count fast if you don't flop anything.

so how do someone approach this sort of game?