Almost everyone is sitting out...

You and one other player are the only players active at a table. The other player is to your left, everyone else is sitting out. Unfortunately, the payer to the left has the advantage.

How do you beat that player?

You and one other player are the only players active at a table. The other player is to your left, everyone else is sitting out. Unfortunately, the payer to the left has the advantage.

How do you beat that player?
[FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]My advice -- and this is only a recent realization for some reason -- is to treat it like a heads up game 'cause it is, basically, except that you'll very rarely have position on the other player. . .

The sitouts are nothing more than dead money in the pot and observers to the action. The only time they will come into play is when you and your opponent call the BB preflop and then check down from flop to river and the sitout happens to have the best hand. . .

If you're up against a truly aggressive opponent who is determined to steal everything in sight, I guess I can only say good luck as you try to chop him down with whatever hands you decide are strong enough to stand up to him with. Eventually you'll have to make a stand or he'll be stealing your blinds as well. . .

BTW, if you're talking about freerolls, while it is technically against most poker rooms rules [collusion], you could always try making a deal with the other player to share the dead stack blinds. Sometimes they go for it, sometimes they don't. . .
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Steve is right. Treat it like heads up. Pick your spot. Hands will come. Hammer his head in when you get them.

Treat it as heads up but with one difference, you don't have to play every hand to protect your blinds because the "sitting out" players are in the blinds. Since the blinds rotate around the table normally; you can be more selective with what hands you play.