You don't want to be trying to steal with any two cards. Anything with potential to make a hand though when you're in an unopened pot from later position.
Your opening range should get more and more up to and including the button. If you get called and you know people are tight you should have a decent idea of their ranges and you can keep applying pressure post flop. This is why it's especially important to have position.
A good thing to calculate whilst playing is your M-ratio.
M = (your stack / (big blind + little blind + total antes)) * (players left/10)
As you're playing with no antes, total antes is obviously zero.
M> 20 - Means you can play how you want basically, you're failry safe
10<M<20 - You don't really want to be playing speculative type hands like suited connectors and pocket pairs trying to hit a set. (If someone is short stacked and shoves all in obviously things like mid pocket pairs can be ok to call with depending on the players history of going all in whilst shallow)
6<M<10 - Basically you want to be the first person in the pot. You want to be shoving or folding a lot of flops. Obviously mix it up a bit though.
M<6 - Shove/fold is all you should be doing
M<1 - Shove every hand
This coupled with learning how likely certain hands are to win preflop should give you the edge if the standard isn't very good.
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