my question is how to deal w/ people that call pretty much everything and bet w/ anything?
Tighten up. The rule of thumb is, play the opposite of how the table is. If they call everything then raise premium hands ONLY. Never/rarely limp.
it seems that the fuckers that call Q2 off hit on the flop or some shit.
You are going to have to embrace the concept that you LOVE them calling with Q2. If you are a nearly 90% favorite...
Hand 0: 88.072% 87.87% 00.20% 1504646 3413.00 { AcAd }
Hand 1: 11.928% 11.73% 00.20% 200832 3413.00 { Qs2h }
guess what - you'll win nearly 90% of the time!
i think the only thing i can really do is reraise like a motherfucker on decent hands and hope to get lucky at the beginning of the game so i dont get blinded out, like last time. 2nd place for the lose.
Just play solid ABC poker, raise for value, not to steal blinds as much early.
Also, you have to be willing to shove your stack in pre-flop w/less-than-stellar holdings if you start getting short-stacked towards the end. You need to do that while you still have enough chips to actually make a dent in your opponents' stacks so they think twice about whether they want to risk half of their chips with that same Q2. And remember - even if they call your push and you have J3, you'll have 2 live cards!
Short-stack tournament play is something I find most people suck at, so when you start playing fairly strict push/fold poker with 10bb's or less you'll definitely have the advantage over them. There's some more to it, but that is the basic concept.
Here's how I went out of a tournament the other day when I was in pretty solid position:
http://www.ckpnetwork.com/WebServices/HandHistory.aspx?Hand=xcfNwcXCssWywcTExczAwojAxc3AwsM=
Shitty result, but god bless "her" (had a female avatar - but so do I) for putting her tournament on the line with such a shitty hand!
Hand 0: 67.678% 67.43% 00.25% 1154567 4282.00 { KcKd }
Hand 1: 32.322% 32.07% 00.25% 549173 4282.00 { Ad3d }
I was a (slightly) better than 2:1 favorite, and that my friend, is a bet you should take pretty much EVERY time in poker!