My father invites me to a regular SnG cash game that they hold at his country club last night with a $40 buy-in, and pretty much unlimited re-buys until 2 hours after the Tournament starts.

After about 2 hands of sizing up this table of 8, it is obvious that maybe one guy knows anything about strategy. The rest of the table are huge fish that will see every flop and push anything. We start out with $800 in chips and the blinds start at $10/15 and escalate rapidly each time around the table to the point where they are at $50/100 after about 30 hands. I assume this is to push the action and encourage re-buys, but given my limited funds, a re-buy is not much of an option for myself.

Now, I know that usually against a table full of loose, aggro fish, you'd want to tighten up and push your premium hands. That was my strategy, except I couldn't catch a single card to save my life. I was catching nothing but rags, literally all night. I took down one small pot when I was up against the wall with A-Js late. The killer came when I finally caught wired Cowboys, only to have them cracked in the most painful way possible, by my father's pocket bullets. I was short-stacked, and had no other choice, and that was a dagger.

My question is whether playing super tight under these conditions is the right play. By my estimation, I only mucked one hand that would have ended up winning in about 40 deals. These guys were all rich guys for whom a re-buy is chump change, and they'd rather just play like idiots and see every flop and push every hand they get. Is this situation hopeless, and you really do need to catch cards, or can you still use strategy? There was no trace of slow-playing and pretty much every flop someone would bet whatever pair they made. It's easy when you have 4-6 guys seeing every flop. I know there is a lot of value in the pot with that many guys, but with the blinds being pushed, it was too expensive to make marginal calls on draws, when someone is going to hit something.

It was frustrating to be in these giant fish tank with no ammo, and then get your one monster hand cracked by Godzilla. Should I just avoid these loose fishy games in the future?