Live pot-limit deep stack adjustments (10-max)

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I'm a successful online $2/$4 6-max NL player and have recently started playing live at my local casino.

I'm finding it quite difficult to adjust however. The game is 2/4 Pot-Limit hold'em 10-max and it plays faily deep. 200BBs average and can hit 400BBs+ in the late hours.

It also plays real strange. there is on average 7 people seeing each flop and they almost always limp. If you raise limpers, they will always call (unless there is a raise and a reraise in which case they *might* fold). They are also atrocious postflop (extremely loose passive).

I'm not sure how i should be adjusting my preflop play? Like raising AK/AA UTG seems useless because it narrows down my hand too much and I'll get 5-6 callers anyways, then i have to play a big pot out of position against complete morons. Also, I tried punishing the limpers by raising speculative hands in late position but once everyone calls and the pot is $200 preflop, suddenly 87s is not looking that great anymore.

Is the right adjustment to join the donkfest and start limping all sorts in late position and play postflop poker? and limp specualtive hands HU because I'm pretty sure it won't get raised and even if it does, 5-6 people will call the raise? I'm finding it hard to believe that the strategy to beat the donkfest is to join the donkfest... help!