Unwittingly Bought into a $500 chip game

Every once in a while I discover, about two or three hands into a game, that I've mistakenly bought into a $500 chip game. I usually discover this when I look down to see my stack, expecting it to be in the $1,400 range more or less and see, GASP! $350. So I try to remember how I could have made so many loose calls in such a short time. Of course, I didn't. So I look around and no one has more than $800 chips. Well, my question is how do you handle such a short stacked tourney, IF YOU DIDN'T REALIZE YOU BOUGHT IN TO IT AND/OR IF YOU INTENTIONALLY BOUGHT IN TO IT?
Now, I have intentionally bought into $1,500 chip tourneys with HORRIBLE structures (O'Shea's, lol) but even tho those blinds climb fast, I have enough chips to see a couple flops without leaving myself almost broke. Anyone have any clues? Do I play these short chips like those horribly structured tournies or is there another approach (I HOPE)

Never played in one and haven't ever seen any. Where are the sites that do this??

So you bought into a turbo, or a super turbo? Play them like high blind Sit & Go's.

It was a $4.40 game on UB this morning. I flipped out when I realized my $350 stack wasn't too low as compared to the other stacks. I didn't read the lobby, NEVER exppecting it to be a $500 chip game. Now, my brother often plays the $300 chip games on FT. He loves tham as he only has about 15 mins to play a game at odd times throughtout the day. I guess I'll ask him?! Except he isn't a good player. If I recall correctly, the buy-in on FT is $3.30.

Poker Stars and Full Tilt have nice filter features. What I do is check the games and limits I like to play and use the filter system so as not too maybe click on a wrong tournament accidentally. This is especially helpful on Stars 6 player sngs that fill so fast.

I had the same problem; I saw a SnG that was nearely full rushed to register only to later realize it was a turbo. As A-RAG said use the filter features, it helped me.

the buy ins on ft range from 3.80 to 120
. i dont really see limping as an option and its best u just play it like push or fold. so ill try to get it in with any ace, k7o, q-10, j-10 and like 4-4, 5-5 and better

imo, u have to be willing to get ur chips in on marginal situations

So you don't read the tournament details page before you actually register? They always tell the starting chip stack. Not to mention, do you forget to see how much the person is better and how much you have in front of you?