Quote Originally Posted by swiggidy
I was playing 50NL 6max pre UIGEA and I could run 16/14 and show the same winrate I did playing 30/25

1) I was better post-flop (they were terrible, not saying I'm good)
2) They basically played they're own cards

It doesn't matter if you're tight at 10NL because they're playing their cards, not your image. They might notice you're more aggressive, but they won't relate it to starting hand selection. You can open up and get some experience post flop and reading hands, but opening up (giving action to get action) it won't directly help your win rate at 10NL.

1 exemption is if you have position on a spewy ATM. You can raise almost any 2 for isolation.
+1.
you don't need to worry about being a great player at micros because there's enough bad players to destroy just using ABC fundamental poker. just worry about getting a good winrate to move up levels so you can get to a level with thinking players. then, start learning to play. that might sound kinda counter-intuitive but its not. the easiest analogy to use would be playing a video game on easy. it takes you 20 minutes to learn a basic strategy and then you run with it until you beat the game. so there's no real learning involved. move up to medium difficulty, and you find that basic strategy didn't work. so now, you are forced to do one of three things: create a new winning strategy, tweak the one you have, or a little bit of both. And then.........you get to legendary and you find out the invisible elites have your number, so you have to do the process again. poker's the same way. if playing only 8 hands is going to win you money (because you know, thats your goal right? to make money?) then do it until you aren't winning money. then find out why you aren't and tweak.