I joined party a couple of days ago and am having problems. I was playing at VC with 200BB stacks and lots of passive players. I'm finding the average party player a lot more aggressive which is screwing my draws early.

I guess i've got to tighten up and play better starting hands. Even though i'm not doing very well the bonus is keeping me in the positive, no one really got through to me just how easy the party bonus is to clear, i should have an extra $150 in a day or two, and i might need it to break even. I've taken a couple of beats which have chewed up $70, if they'd gone the other way i'd be about 70 up plus 80 bonus and wouldn't be writing this so maybe i shouldn't worry.

I tend to win a few small pots, get up to $30-35 and then get a big pocket pair and lose to either the pair above (QQ ran into KK twice) or lose to a desperate chaser.I don't like to complain about my luck and i don't think i'm dwelling but i'm a bit concerned i may be doing something wrong.

Any thoughts?