Getting Killed in Vegas 2/4 Games and Can't Find a Way Out

[banzi]

Hi there,

I just moved to Vegas for other reasons and I started playing again. Before I would simply keep my playing to trips out here as a tourist and always did okay at this limit.

However, now I'm here I am finding myself constantly losing to stupid draws that always seem to get there. I have been playing for quite a while and I *think* I have a sound game theory pre-flop. I mostly stick to:

AKo
AKs
AA
KK
QQ
AQs
JJ
TT
99
88
AQo

if I'm early or middle, and add maybe AJ, ATs KQ, JTs and Axs if I'm in late, cutoff and button. I'm not afraid to raise and do a fair amount, but I always seem to get called down with some garbage hand like T6o and they river 2p on me.

I have tried playing super tight (didn't work), aggresive (didn't work - lost quicker. I don't understand how someone can call 4 bets pre-flop with K7o but there you go) and I know I should be happy that they do it, but is this just variance or something else?

How do you deal with these very loose, very passive games?