How to play in this situation....?

[Se7enTwo]

Ok. I've been playing online play chips for about 6-7 months...watch as much poker on TV as I can get.
I still consider myself a new player...although I am learning. I'd consider myself a smart player.


ANYWAYS.

Here's the situation. My first real life-real money game. $10 buy in-winner take all.
Out of 8 people my newbie-butt makes it too heads up....but thats where it went wrong.
The blinds were 500/1000. EVERY pre-flop the other player would raise to 2600....and I just wasnt getting the cards.
Finally I got aggrevated / tired and went all in w/ a draw hand & lost.

So. How do you handle this situation? Keep folding the blinds out till you get a somewhat decent starting hand?
Or.....

[Repsychler]

I used to have the same problem heads up, but I'm getting better. I'm learning how to loosen up my starting hand selection as the table gets smaller.
What kind of hands were you folding?

[magicratx]

When your playing heads up with huge blinds compared to starting stacks, then normally whoever gets their chips in first will take it down.

If you were playing with the button as the SB (as you should), then you should raise almost any hand from here.

In this situation, any Ace, King, Queen is likely to be very strong as are hands like J10, J9, 109,98 etc. If you only have 5 or 6 Bb each then there is not much skill left, its just mainly luck but by being aggresive form the button should keep you in the game and give you a chance to win a 60/40 0r 50/50 flip.

Put simply you cannot wait for hands if the blinds are that high so you should move from the button with any kind of hand as its a lot easier to push with 98S than it is to call a push with this type of hand