[Ghazban]

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Besides the usual premium hands you should definitely play small pairs, because you get huge implied odds on them. It is pretty similar with suited connectors, although they are not as easy to play as small pairs. With suited connectors you simply don't flop made hands often enough, so they will be more expensive.

Since you can protect your hands in NL, top pair hands go up in value and speculative hands go down in value. Ironically this is also the way how to win small pots and lose big pots.

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This is backwards. Hands like AJo and KJo that do fairly well in limit are absolute junk in no-limit. Hands like small pairs are fantastic because, if you flop a set vs. someone else's overpair/TPTK, you can often win a large pot postflop with a small preflop investment. Small suited connectors are generally quite good, too, as they usually hit the flop very hard or not at all so you rarely make a 2nd best hand that pays off the best hand but often can make an small straight or two pair that can get paid by top pair or an overpair.