Challenge Donkement!

For this part of my weekend I got up early to play an MTT. I do not know why the weekend tournements are so weak in the morning but that is just what I have found. MTTs are technically not much of a challenge and do not really deserve to be on a poker to-do list, so I upped the ante and played a large field higher buy in to 'make it more interesting.' Play started incredibly loose with lots of min bets, donk bets and generally ugly play. There was an very fast pace to the game, as if loads of ADD kids had been let loose with a poker account. Donks and fish were calling raises from all positions and hitting lots of weirdness post flop. It was not long before the game settled into what I call the 'frantic limping' stage. This is when the blinds are so high that any decent raise leaves you pot-committed, so many players look down at A4s or K10 and limp in from any position on the table. The sharks were doing well at this stage pushing hard post flop, and there were also a few phantom chip leaders from early all-in head butts. I made an good fold of 66 in EP, noticing a desperate medium stack in the blinds and as predicted the BB shoved. As the board played out I managed a wry smile, as I would have been up against top 2, and made quad sixes lolz:) In the end I came out of the last intermission to a quick exit in 38th place of 295 because I could not manage a nit-fold with 99 preflop to a few limps. When the board came down low and the big stack potted the flop I slid in my 16BB to look down the barrell of 1010. I know this was horrible 'yellow zone' play but even if I had shoved preflop then the monster stack was calling in a heartbeat, so we can probably file this one under 'cooler.' I really need to tackle the maths side of my weekend challenges now and start working out the +EV way to deal with these sodding medium-low pairs at 15-88BB...I think my good buddy KingTubby would agree with me that these hands are a terrible curse!