[jdunford]

I've run into the same problem in the past - have to dramatically stray from my usual style of play. I was going to give advice, but everything I was going to say has been said by MacGrad, so refer to his post. Basically, you should not be playing any more than your fraction of hands if they're all this loose (i.e. 10% if there are 10 players, 12.5% for 8 players, etc.). Choose your battles. Don't throw your money away.

If it's a tournament, it's can be tough to remain tight because the blinds are increasing and the stacks will be fluctuating a lot with so many players in on every hand. You still have to be patient and wait for a set or better, because some donk is going to have bottom 2-pair or similar on every hand. Only play premium hands.

This happened to me in a live 6-man tournament (winner takes all) last night (waiting on a mutli-table tournament to end) where I took out 3 players on one hand when I was finally dealt AA. I'd only played 1 hand in 3 orbits of the table (which I'd won after the turn). I was UTG, just called knowing these guys were raising any hand preflop, and they started pushing all-in behind me. 4 of them went all-in (only 1 had enough chips to cover me). All I had to do was call. One of them was playing 64s and hit a set of 4's on the flop... but an A hit on the turn giving me a boat...